About Us
G Adventures is the world’s largest small-group adventure travel company and we’ve been making epic travel memories happen on all seven continents for over 30 years.
Our mission is simple: to change lives through travel. And not just our travelers’ either. Since day one, our tours have been built to establish meaningful relationships with local communities, directly benefiting the people and places we visit at every step of our tours.
With the demand for travel coming back strong, we are set up and excited for this next chapter in our company’s story — and we’d love for you to be a part of it.
Our DNA revolves around building, nurturing, and developing a diverse culture of people and a true sense of belonging, where everyone is encouraged to bring their authentic self to work each and every day. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, and yourself, alongside a passionate, talented, and welcoming community that works hard to spread goodness around the world.
If all that sounds like your kind of thing, well, we can’t wait for you to join us.
About the Role:
Reporting to the Director of Platform Systems, this role will be responsible for managing the team responsible for the development and maintenance of our proprietary API Systems. The G Adventures API (https://developers.gadventures.com) provides a platform for external & internal partners to display and sell G Adventures tours, while leveraging tools like Webhooks, GraphQL, and Elasticsearch to ensure consistent and up-to-date data. We use Python, Django, and Go primarily. Ensuring system stability, uptime, performance, and high customer satisfaction are key metrics for success. Engineering Managers at G Adventures wear multiple hats, collaborating with the business on the product roadmap and driving our agile development process. The development team is distributed across multiple regions, so the ability to build cohesion and engagement remotely is key. The Software Engineering Manager will help identify, plan & implement multi-year programs for all practical migrations of applications from future acquisitions, to the systems under their purview. If this sounds exciting to you, come join our team!
What You'll Be Doing:
Manage the software development team (4 devs and growing) that designs, builds, and maintains a suite of services & integrations that power our API
Collaborate with the Director of Platform Systems and SMEs to establish development roadmap and strategy, establish project timelines
Capture upcoming business needs from internal & external stakeholders to plan and scope future feature development
Prioritize a high-volume of competing tasks in a fast-paced environment, manage stakeholder expectations
Identify engineering challenges to architect and implement scalable solutions
Mentor team members with respect to best software engineering practices and internal standards (code reviews, pair programming, etc)
Define performance standards and ensure adherence to those standards
Conduct interviews to assist with hiring qualified team members
Monitor team member performance, set individual goals, meet for regular 1-on-1s, and perform yearly reviews
Work with the Technology management team to define departmental policy, process, and procedures
Improve team engagement within G Adventures as a whole
Research new or existing technologies that would benefit customers
Desired Skills & Experience:
10+ years of software development experience
2+ years of managing software developers
Experience with python & Django development, Go is a plus
Experience crafting or working closely with APIs
Experience developing distributed system
Communicates, manages effectively both horizontally and vertically
Strong leadership, motivation and interpersonal skills
Deep knowledge of software standards; excitement about related technologies
Cloud Technologies, Terraform and automated pipeline experience is a plus
Understanding of performance monitoring and optimization techniques
Knowledge of software development lifecycles and Kanban/Agile methodologies
University bachelor's degree in computer science or related experience
What do we offer you?
Competitive salary commensurate with the role
Competitive benefits package
Birthday day off
Vacation time for you to recharge
Enhanced Parental Leave
Learning and growth opportunities
Employee Resource Groups
*Applicable based on location*
G Adventures is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants.