WhereTo - Senior Node.JS Back End Engineer - Remote, Mexico

**Job no:** 529028-A
**Brand:** WhereTo
**Work type:** Full time
**Location:** Mexico City
**Categories:** Digital and Technology

WhereTo is a business travel startup from San Francisco that evolved into an agile development and design studio within the Flight Centre family. We build travel solutions used by some of the largest companies on the planet - we have just one goal: making business travel better for everybody.

WhereTo provides an AI-powered travel platform for corporate travel. Their platform uses machine learning algorithms to recommend personalized travel options based on a traveler's preferences, company policies, and budget. WhereTo's technology also allows for real-time travel tracking, reporting, and cost analysis, enabling companies to optimize their travel programs and reduce costs.

**About The Opportunity**

We are looking for a Back End focused engineer to be a pivotal member of our engineering team. You will be working closely with product managers and developers who like to use lots of interesting technologies to develop core features used across the WhereTo platform. A great fit for this role is someone who is always intrigued by new technology, is constantly finding better ways to write beautiful, shareable, scalable and solid code, is comfortable working in a fast paced remote environment, and is a team player.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Responsible for creating high quality user-focused software while working in a fast-moving domain team.
- Help define, implement and reinforce architectural + implementation best practices
- Assist Team Lead in facilitating technical planning for team’s projects.
- Assist Team Lead in communicating progress, roadblocks, concerns, and
- successes to engineering management.
- May be required to organize and lead meetings with external stakeholders as needed.
- Provide technical guidance to more junior engineers
- Assist Team Lead in code review for your team.
- Help your team members debug issues and solve complex tasks.
- Provide mentorship to junior engineers.
- Assist in onboarding process for your team.
- You will live and breathe asynchronous I/O, Typed JavaScript and horizontal scalability.

**Experience & Qualifications**

- More than 4 years experience in a software development role
- Experience with building and architecting high quality software from scratch
- Strong Node.js and JavaScript skills (ES6, Babel) - experience with TypeScript and/or FlowType is a bonus
- Strong understanding of asynchronous I/O
- Excellent software architecture skills and a passion for maintainable, organized code
- Experienced with AWS, EC3, S3, RDS, CloudFront/CDNs
- Expert with Linux, Ubuntu/Debian (BASH scripting a plus)
- Experience with CI platforms (Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, etc)
- Experience with REST-based Web Service API implementation
- Experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL (or similar) and understanding of how they work internally
- Experience with Algorithms and Data Structures
- Experience with NoSQL databases is desirable (i.e MongoDB, Cassandra)
- Experience with memory cache systems (Redis, Memcached)
- Experience with other systems programming languages is a bonus (Go, C/C++,
- Rust, etc), and/or scripting languages (Python) and/or JVM-based languages (Scala, Java, Groovy)
- Experience with pure functional programming and/or functional programming
- libraries and concepts is a bonus (Haskell, Scala, F#, Ramda, Lo-Dash FP etc)
- Strong experience in designing and implementing highly horizontally-scalable architecture
- Strong understanding of Git fundamentals
- Strong understanding of Docker fundamentals

**Work Perks - What’s in it for you:**

FCTG is renowned internationally for having amazing perks and an even better culture. We understand that our people are our most valuable asset. It is the passion and dedication of our teams that keep the company on top of the industry ladder. It’s also why we offer some great employee benefits and perks outside of the norm.

- **Have fun:** At the heart of everything we do at Flight Centre is a desire to have fun.
- **Reward & Recognition:** Celebrate the success of yourself and others at our regular Buzz Nights and at the annual Global Gathering - You'll have to experience it to believe it
- **Use your smarts:** Our people use their quick thinking, expertise, and tenacity to always figure things out.
- **Love for travel:** We were founded by people who wanted to travel and want others to do the same. That passion is something you can’t miss in our people or service.
- **Personal connections:** We are a big business founded on personal relationships.
- **Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:** Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through Employee Resource Groups (Racial Equity, Gender Equity, LGBTQ2IA+, Accessibility, Environmental Justice), DEI education initiatives, and equitable practices, including regular equity assessments and inclusive recruitment protocols.
- **A career, not a job:** We offer genuine opportunities for people to grow and evolve
- **We back our people all the way:** We are strongly committed to supporting every single employee in their professional and personal development.
- **Giving Back:** Proud Corporate Social Responsibility program supporting nominated charities through volunteering and fundraising.

**Benefits Include:**

- Generous paid time off policy - including 40% Vacation Bonus and 30 day Christmas Bonus
- Travel perks/discounts
- Health & Wellness Programs
- National/International Award Nights and Conferences
- Medical Expense Insurance
- Life Insurance Coverage as per Company Policy
- Social Security Benefits (IMSS), Retirement Savings (SAR), and Housing Fund (INFONAVIT)
- Food Vouchers Equivalent to 5% of Gross Monthly Salary
- Participation in the Company Pension Plan
- Global career opportunities in a network of brands and businesses

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Location – Remote, Mexico

If this sounds like the opportunity you have been waiting for then .

We thank all candidates for their interest; however, only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.

Before applying to any internal position you must have been with the company or your current role for a minimum of 6 - 12 months and notify your leader prior to applying.

Our number one philosophy? Our people. Flight Centre Travel Group’s promise is to provide an environment with equality of respect, dignity and opportunity for all our employees. We value an inclusive and supportive workplace which truly reflects the diversity of our society.

We are committed to providing a barrier-free pathway throughout our recruitment process. We welcome accommodation requests to make our hiring and onboarding experience as accessible as possible. Please advise us about accommodation needs at any point by contacting our Recruitment Team at recursoshumanos@flightcentre.com.mx

**Applications close:** 27 Feb 2026 Mexico Standard Time