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About Travelstart

Address
Innovation City, Longkloof Studios, Darters Road, Gardens Cape Town, 8001 South Africa
Company size
201-500 employees

Highlights

Travelstart is on a mission to build a world-class tech team through OfferZen.

Travelstart is committed to drive growth and innovation in the tech community.

Summary

What We Do

Travelstart is the leading Online Travel Agency in Africa and the Middle East. Operating in 18 markets across the region each with their own localisation requirements. Online travel is a fast moving and complex domain rarely without a dull moment.

Travelstart sees its technology as a core asset and is investing heavily in giving customers as well as its employees a great experience. The Travelstart development team prides themselves for being agile, continuously improving and delivering high quality features.

Travelstart development provides an environment where core values are learning & growing, taking ownership, working as a team and delivering technically superior solutions.

We are looking for passionate Software Engineers and/or Systems Engineers (DevOps) with 5 years or more experience to join our team.

Our technology stack includes:

Angular, Rest, Message Queues, Spring, mySql, Postgres, Apache, Camel, Java (a lot of it), Redis/Elasticache, Hazelcast and Ruby.

We keep exploring new technologies so for all you know, this has already evolved… :-)

Software engineers are responsible for the following:

Collaborate with internal stakeholders to propose solutions based on business requirements Write clean, testable code Follow security principles Perform tests and debugging to maximize program efficiency Releases the software to live Analyse issues Stay up-to-date with industry developments

System Engineers focus on the operational aspects of our applications. They generally perform the following activities:

Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure to ensure highest levels of availability Monitor and test infrastructure & application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks Participate in the design of information and operational support systems Provide 2nd and 3rd level support - Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution

Perks at Travelstart

Flexible Hardware Choice
20+ Annual Leave Days
Mojo Monday (Coffee Treats)
Flexible Working Hours
Global Company
Access to Global leaders in Travel Technology
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Tech Stack

application and data

Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC
Rails
Rails
AngularJS
AngularJS
Sass
Sass
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Javascript
Javascript
Python
Python
MySQL
MySQL
Java
Java
Spring Framework
Spring Framework
Ruby
Ruby
Redis
Redis
jQuery
jQuery
HTML5
HTML5
Bootstrap
Bootstrap
nginx
nginx
Kotlin
Kotlin

utilities

Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
Google Analytics
Google Analytics
Tableau
Tableau

dev ops

GitHub
GitHub
Jenkins
Jenkins
PagerDuty
PagerDuty
Git
Git
Chef
Chef
Docker
Docker
Gradle
Gradle
Selenium
Selenium
Vagrant
Vagrant
New Relic
New Relic
npm
npm
Terraform
Terraform

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
MailChimp
MailChimp
Zendesk
Zendesk
JIRA
JIRA
Confluence
Confluence

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