Company Description
What we do: We connect people with well-planned, unforgettable travel experiences.
How we do it: We’re an agile team whose mantra says it all; Think Big. Start Small. Move Fast.
Travelstride is an ambitious Venture-funded Seed stage startup led by industry & tech veterans that is serving a large, growing opportunity. Our investors include JetBlue Ventures, NFX (top VC for marketplaces), New York Angels, Sand Hill Angels, and the founders of Trulia, Get There, Hipmunk, TripIt, and Google Now.
Travelstride is the #1 US platform for experiential trips, powered by a combination of AI and a local expert network. We are building the future of vacation planning. With over 350,000 trusted reviews, we are aiming to become the go-to community for curious travelers.
As the top marketplace for tours, tailor-made vacations, and adventure trips, our platform hosts more than 50,000 itineraries across every continent crafted by the world’s best trip designers.
Travelstride is utilizing GenAI in an innovative way giving travelers the ability to easily create personalized, bookable trips. With the customizable magic of AI combined with a local expert to refine and book the itinerary, the customer can plan delightfully and travel with confidence.
We are a values and mission driven company. While many say it, we live it daily, and encourage you to review our core values and our careers page to see if we are a good mutual fit.
Our PURPOSE: Bring wonder, joy, learning, and connection through better and more frequent travel.
Our MISSION: Cultivate a community connecting travelers with extraordinary places, people and experiences.
Our MANTRA: Think big. Start Small. Move fast. First, do it. Then do it right. Then do it better.
Job Description
Overview: We are seeking a visionary CTO to lead our engineering team and drive the evolution of our technology stack. This role is critical in aligning our technical solutions with the company’s strategic goals and ensuring our platform is innovative, robust, scalable, and efficient.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the engineering team in designing and implementing scalable architecture solutions.
- Assess and enhance the current tech stack, recommending and integrating modern technologies where necessary.
- Draft and enforce engineering processes that align with product demands and improve development efficiency.
- Draft and enforce functional processes that align with company goals and long term strategy.
- Collaborate with product management to ensure alignment between technical solutions and business objectives.
- Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
- Oversee system architecture, ensuring best practices in security, performance, and reliability.
- Stay ahead of industry trends, continuously evaluating new tools and technologies to enhance our platform.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven experience as a Chief Architect or in a senior architectural role, ideally within the travel or e-commerce sectors.
- Strong leadership skills with experience managing and mentoring engineering teams.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- A track record of successfully aligning technical strategies with business goals.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with leading functional and technical teams.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and software development principles.
Qualifications
About You:
- You love technology, software, and experimenting with new approaches and tools
- You’ve been playing with AI for years and crafted experiments for fun as well as work
- You wake up excited to write code and dive into solving the most challenging problems
- You obsess over high quality code, and think about process and scale, not just the immediate problem
- You want to lead and create a technology platform that utilizes payments, marketplace messaging, and cutting edge Generative AI
- You enjoy thinking about high level business and user goals and collaborating with your colleagues to generate scrappy yet scalable solutions
- Your perfect work day is writing code 80% of the time, meeting with fellow engineers 10%, and collaborating with business leaders on strategy 10%
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
