About Tripco

What We Do

Tripco is a travel technology company based in Cape Town, South Africa. We build and own online travel platforms and brands, loved by thousands of customers every day.

The Tripco team is passionate about delivering the best travel experiences, enabled by technology and industry-leading customer service.

Tripco’s original travel brand, TravelGround.com, has facilitated accommodation bookings since 2009 and now lists over 25,000 places to stay across South Africa and Namibia.

In 2013, Tripco launched LekkeSlaap.co.za, the easiest way to find and book accommodation in both Afrikaans and English. Since then, LekkeSlaap has become a household name, growing into South Africa’s largest local accommodation booking website.

Tripco’s launched LekkeVlieg.co.za, a flights product in 2018. This cutting-edge flight booking platform makes booking flights in Afrikaans and English a seamless experience.

In 2023, Tripco launched one-of-a-kind accommodation booking app, Viya.co.za. Designed to revolutionise the way we explore South Africa, Viya offers users a seamless experience to discover and book accommodations across the country, while also providing a platform to share their travel experiences.

At Tripco, we believe in making travel a transformative experience, offering innovation at its finest.

Our Culture

You'll be part of our close-knit Product & Engineering team, working on new products and exciting roadmap projects. You'll be contributing to all aspects of the development cycle from discovery to deployment and there is also an opportunity to be involved in other types of projects like data analytics and machine learning, or innovative solutions that require new technologies, we're supportive and open to your ideas and interests!

You'll also be an active and valued member of our wider company of 150+ people. We are hard-working, curious and ambitious, and are set out to reimagine the future of travel. We take great pride in providing the best experience to our customers.

We're based at the Waterfront, Cape Town in a modern, collaborative office space.

Our Stack

• We utilise Hashicorps' infrastructure ecosystem incorporating Terraform, Consul, Nomad
• We run PHP, MariaDB, Redis & Nginx on a multi-server stack
• We also use Python, C++, and Rust for some of our services
• We also utilise services and tools like AWS, Cloudflare, RabbitMQ, PubSub, Caddy, Traefik, Envoy
• We do continuous integration build processes with Docker, and GitHub Actions
• Potential to be involved in Machine Learning and Data Analytics projects

Why Work With Us

• Flexible hours and remote working hybrid model (2 days in office/week)
• Extensive budget to choose your own high-end laptop and workstation setup
• Cool Waterfront office with a chill room, table tennis, Jura coffee and a private balcony
• Great perks such as free daily lunch when in the office, free travel vouchers and discounts
• Contribution towards a Discovery medical aid & Vitality Health membership
• Lots of leave and digital nomad working available (work from anywhere, without taking leave)
• Dynamic, hard-working company culture. We take great pride in giving our customers the best service!
• Work alongside some of the brightest and the best Computer Science and Engineering graduates.
• Learn everything there is to know about cutting-edge e-Commerce, web dev and mobile dev.
• You will be encouraged to participate actively in business strategy and tactics.
• Full sponsorship of any local coding conferences/meetups/seminars you may wish to attend.
• Interact with 100+ non-engineers, such as writers, designers, marketers, etc

Our Hiring Process

• We adopt an informal process that varies from candidate to candidate.
• Usually, the process involves a couple of informal video calls, a simple web development task and finally an office visit to meet the P&E team and company directors.

Roles Available

• Full-Stack Software Engineer
• Systems Engineer