Recruiting Bond
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Job details:
Director of Software Engineering — Backend (AI-First Travel Marketplace)Location: Bengaluru (Hybrid)
Company: Recruiting Bond International (Confidential Client Engagement)
The Opportunity — AI-First Travel Tech MarketplaceWe are hiring a Director of Engineering (Backend) to lead a large-scale Travel Tech platform across:
- Flights, Hotels, Bus, Train ecosystems
- B2C journeys + B2B corporate travel platforms
- Millions of transactions per minute
- IPO-scale complexity
👉 This is a mandate to re-architect systems + redesign engineering orgs for an AI-first, real-time marketplace.
Mandate1. System Leadership- Architect high-throughput distributed backend systems
- Build real-time marketplace engines (pricing, ranking, availability, liquidity)
- Design high-performance search & recommendation systems (relevance, personalization, ranking)
- Lead AI-native platform adoption (LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, MCP)
- Solve critical problems across:
- → API failures, webhook failures, retries, idempotency
- → event consistency, fault tolerance, graceful degradation
- Optimize latency × cost × reliability × conversion
2. Organizational Leadership- Build platform-first engineering orgs across verticals
- Enable teams owning Flights / Hotels / Bus / Train / B2B systems
- Drive execution velocity in complex, interdependent systems
- Establish culture of ownership, craftsmanship, and first-principles thinking
What You Bring- Led 20–100+ engineers across backend/platform teams
- Deep expertise in distributed systems + system design at scale
- Experience with marketplace platforms (B2C/B2B)
- Built systems where latency, reliability, and ranking directly impact revenue
- Strong experience handling failures at scale (APIs, async systems, integrations)
- Proven track record in org design + scaling execution
Tech Stack & Systems Depth- Languages: Java / Go / Python / Rust
- Streaming: Kafka (event-driven, real-time pipelines)
- Data: Redis, Elasticsearch (low-latency + search at scale)
- Cloud: AWS (multi-region, fault-tolerant systems)
What You’ll Actually Build- Real-time travel systems (search → recommendation → pricing → booking)
- Event-driven architectures powering supply-demand matching
- Large-scale search & recommendation engines
- Resilient distributed systems handling failures gracefully
- Multi-region, highly available platforms under extreme load
Who This Is ForYou think in:
- Platforms > Projects
- Systems > Services
- Leverage > Headcount
You care about:
- First-principles architecture
- High-performance engineering culture
- Designing for failure, not just scale
Why This Role Is RareMost roles:
→ inherit systems
→ manage teams
→ optimize edges
This role:
→ rebuilds core architecture
→ solves real-world system failures at scale
→ defines AI-first marketplace engineering
📩 Reach out: hrteam@recruitingbond.com or DM for a confidential conversation
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