Staff Backend Software Engineer- Data Platform

Our Vision

FLYR Labs is focused on the relentless application of advanced and intuitive technologies that help transportation leaders unlock their ultimate potential. 

Starting with airlines, we provide the Cirrus Revenue Operating System™ that reshapes how travel and transportations businesses plan their commercial operation.

We displace legacy data, forecasting, pricing, and reporting solutions with a single enterprise SaaS platform that leverages the latest advancements in deep learning, cloud computing, and user experience.

Our hyper-accurate contextual forecasts enable the most effective scheduling, marketing, and leadership decisions while directly managing the pricing for billions of dollars worth of product and revenue.

We are looking for Software Engineers to join our Data Platform group.

This position is based in our Los Angeles (Santa Monica), CA office location.

Our Data Platform group is responsible for the software to support data at FLYR.

The FLYR Data Platform Group enables access to consistent high quality data for the rest of our developers and data scientists as they move new software features and ML models into production for our airline customers.

All of FLYR’s software development and data science teams depend on the data models, pipelines, and tools owned by our Data Platform team to bring leading-edge ML-based products to market.

Our Data Platform group manages the processes and tools on our core product data models and evolves our warehouse data model to support FLYR’s product evolution and our growth into new markets. 

As a software tools team, the group owns the tools and processes for schema change management and the standardized frameworks for data quality systems and data pipelines used across FLYR.

The group owns the tools used by our customer-facing Delivery teams to build customer data pipelines and ingest new customer data.

Our Data Platform group works on mission-critical projects that have an instant meaningful impact for FLYR’s product offerings, and power revenue for the world’s biggest airline brands. We strongly believe in fostering an environment for intellectually interesting work that advances your career progression on this journey.

Let’s get you on board soon.

What will your destination look like at FLYR?

  • As a staff or principal engineer you will lead the development of data pipeline and ETL frameworks, library code, and tools.

    Your software will be used by FLYR’s professional services and Delivery staff to power data pipelines across FLYR’s portfolio of airline and transportation industry customers.

  • Hands-on engineering leadership to define and deliver production data pipeline framework.
  • Define architecture and implement library code, frameworks and tools powering ingest, transform, and management of hundreds of pipelines operating on large volumes of batch and streaming data.
  • Contribute to your group’s feature roadmap through close collaboration with professional services data engineers to understand workflow and tooling needs.
  • Delivery of large software features through technical coordination of a team of software engineers.

    Lead complex software development projects from inception through technical architecture review to deployment.

  • Ensure quality software through technical design reviews and code reviews.
  • Advocate for and lead process improvement within our fast-growing engineering organization.
  • Coordinate with DevOps on defining monitoring requirements and practices for production data pipelines.
  • Collaborate closely with lead Data Scientists, Product Managers and ML Engineers on teams across FLYR to understand data needs and lead the design and delivery of tools, software, and data to meet those needs. 

What can you bring on this trip?

  • Extensive software engineering experience with data-intensive systems and data-driven products.

    Proven track record of significant technical contributions on complex interesting systems.

  • Expert in either Python or Java.

    Preferably have recent hands-on coding experience in Python.

  • Expert software engineering skills.

    Extensive experience in the design, development, and support of library code and tools used outside your direct team.

  • Extensive experience in batch and real-time data processing.

    Ability to analyze and drive performance improvements at an architectural level. 

  • Quantitative educational background (Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Economics, or other related fields).
  • You have strong knowledge of SQL and confidence in wrangling all types of data in SQL.

    You will perform and supervise others performing data analysis in the course of the investigation of software defects and software performance issues.

    You will oversee design and conduct code reviews on SQL-based, data-centric test cases and test automation.

  • You have experience in data processing tools and data engineering, and bring significant experience working with the development of ETL systems and cloud-based data management tools.
  • Staff engineers are expected to be strong communicators and have experience collaborating across multiple teams and external partners.
  • Staff engineers at FLYR have experience mentoring new members, growing the engineering-excellence culture, and influencing the larger data science and engineering organizations.

Ticket Prices, Frequent FLYR miles, and more

  • Equity in Series C startup with high growth potential
  • Comprehensives healthcare plans (Choice of PPO & HMO available)
  • Generous PTO policy and flexible working arrangements
  • 401K with company matching
  • Weekly catered lunch and team lunches/outings
  • Dog-friendly office environments
  • Flexible working (remote eligible)

Our Journey

Founder Alex Mans has built a team with a wide range of experiences in enterprise technology, aviation, and entrepreneurship.

We are a dynamic and fast-growing travel tech start-up headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Los Angeles, Dallas, Krakow, and Amsterdam.

Our Progress

In September 2021, FLYR closed a $150M Series C funding round led by leading investment firms WestCap and Silverlake.

This funding fuels FLYR’s ambitions and ensures our ability to continue to scale and invest in delivering best-in-class solutions for the transportation industry.

FLYR has drawn seasoned talent from PROS, Amadeus, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, General Electric, and Southwest Airlines to key product and operational roles.

While serving the needs of airlines is FLYR’s primary focus, it is extending its technology across other travel and transportation industries through various strategic partnerships across rental cars, events, cargo, rail, and more

Our Commitment to Fairness

At FLYR, we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and embrace a commitment to have our teams better reflect the world around us as we scale the business.

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