Full-Stack Engineer

Stay Wanderful is looking for a Full-Stack Engineer to join our development team. As a key part of the engineering team, you will have a chance to build out our core platform, contribute to our framework and key feature developments.

We are building a smart recommendation engine based on machine learning technology in order to provide a user on a hotel's website with personalized offerings that are instantly gratifying.  A traveler of a certain profile may receive $50 flight credit from their airline of preference, while enjoying VIP access and complimentary cocktails at their favorite restaurant in town.

About you:
You’re a Full Stack Engineer who loves challenges, learning and making people’s lives easier. You have a solid understanding of object-oriented programming and have experience with relational databases. You want to build applications that you’re proud of while working on a dynamic and driven team.

Requirements:
  • Passionate about building modern web applications as well as data-driven recommendation systems and internal testing platforms
  • 5+ years experience building full stack applications
  • Experience working with a backend framework such as Django or similar
  • Experience building Node applications
  • Understanding of object-oriented programming and MVC frameworks
  • Proficient with both Python and Javascript (ES6)
  • Proficient with Git and version control
  • Experience using Amazon Web Service technologies
  • Experience using web components, CSS pre-processors and front end build tools
  • Capable of learning quickly and implementing new tools 
  • Passionate about contributing to a small team and helping drive our technical vision
  • Have an entrepreneurial spirit, ready to work hard to contribute to our fast paced engineering team 
  • Interest in engineering management a plus

Benefits:
At Stay Wanderful we believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas lead to the best product. We are focused on creating a diverse, inclusive, and meritocratic culture that deliverers the industry leading work and a happy team. We hire very selectively on skill, cultural fit, and ability to work in a team. As a result, our teams are trusted to make decisions collaboratively, move quickly, and take radical ownership over their domain. Our culture is collaborative, empowering, and ambitious. We work hard and invest heavily in each other to grow the business and develop our talent.

We are proud to offer competitive benefits and resources. We deeply value our team, and this is one way we support our employees.
  • Competitive compensation package
  • Flexible Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
  • Full insurance benefits (medical/dental/vision)
  • Extra goodies like team lunches, lots of munchies and drinks in the office, bowling nights, etc. 
  • Opportunity to join our elite and creatively named Fun Committee
  • LOTS of sunlight in our Chelsea office 
  • We are a growing company, so as we grow, YOU will grow!

About Stay Wanderful:
Stay Wanderful is powering the next generation of travel through our industry leading mix of traveller incentives and behavioral insights. Working with an ever growing network of hotels, Stay Wanderful's incentive engine surfaces relevant, targeted, and exclusive rewards to guests who book directly on the hotel website. To date, we have incentivized over $1 billion of hotel transactions with an impressive 12 million+ impressions per month. Grounded in rich behavioral and consumer intent data gathered by our platform, the SW reward personalization engine learns from consumer interaction and reward selection to serve customized reward recommendations, ultimately driving a personalized experience for travellers and driving incremental revenue for our hotel clients. Additionally our merchant partners have demonstrated business growth from our network, tapping into the high-spending travel consumer segment.   

It’s an exciting time for our growing team as we’ve raised a strong fundraising round, have a solid technology team, have achieved transformative results for our hotel clients and now are just looking to grow exponentially.The management team has significant domain expertise in hospitality, analytics, and machine learning, and are alumni of MIT, Harvard Business School, and Columbia University. Investors include hotel owners and tech investors.
  • Winner of Most Innovative Startup - Judge's Choice Award at HITEC 2017
  • Winner of Best Business Model at 2016 Launch Festival
  • Selected into Grand Central Tech out of thousands of applicants
 

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