Hello! Thanks for checking out our job description for a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Impala.

In short, at Impala we're making the world a better place for guests, hotels, and online travel agents of any size. Think Twilio or Plaid for Travel.

A brief overview of what you will be doing here:

You will be a key contributor to our API and data ingestion platform, ensuring that it keeps scaling smoothly as we rapidly add more users and features.

You will be given a lot of responsibility for evolving the infrastructure and picking the right tools for the job.

You will work closely with other engineers but also product and business teams to deliver a product that’s technically first-class and loved by our customers.

You should join us if you:

• Have experience working on a large-scale platform, handling large volumes of data throughput.
• Have strong experience with Node.js and good knowledge of JS fundamentals.
• Have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, as well as queuing systems.
• Are comfortable working closely with product owners and other engineers to define the best way to implement features with high technical standards.
• You share our organisational vision of democratising travel and enabling innovation across an entire industry.
• You share our passion for the highest-quality code and won’t settle for anything less.
• You thrive on excellence, autonomy and questioning conventional wisdom.

You shouldn’t join us if (we want to be as honest and transparent as we can):

• You value stability in a product and company, over change and fast-growth.
• You think lofty goals are better left to renovation builders.

Where and how will you work?

• We are a remote-first and asynchronous company. This was a very deliberate, natural choice, as we prioritise preserving work-life balance and accommodating the best people in Europe, whilst also fostering diversity.
• So we employ anyone anywhere within +/- 2h from GMT, timezone wise for now (expanding globally in the future).
• You can check out everything we offer to set up your perfect remote work environment here.
• And if Relocation excites you - we offer (and encourage!) that opportunity too.
• We also have a dedicated Remote Experience Manager in the team, whose role is, amongst other things, to ensure your happiness, and help you integrate and feel empowered whilst working remotely.

What about the Covid-shaped elephant in the room?

Covid-19 has forced almost every industry in the world to adjust in 2020, and none more so than the travel industry. It is however, an exciting time to be in Travel Tech, with endless opportunities opened up for innovation, that will help jump start the travel industry. Hotels and innovators are no longer satisfied with the status quo.

Backed by some of Europe’s leading investors, we’re on the cusp of launching a product that will connect people and travel once again.

Sound interesting?

If your answer is ‘yes’ and you want to learn more, check out our Blog and our Culture Deck. Want to hear more from our VP Engineering? Read about his experience here.

Apply if you want to bring your innovation bent and product-obsession to help change the game in travel.

For more information about what it's like working here, check out our Glassdoor page.

Hello!

Thanks for checking out our job description for a Backend Software Engineer at Impala. We felt a little bit impersonal just diving straight in with words like “revolutionising” and “disrupting”.

As such, we apologise in advance for any clichés, tropes or sudden-insecurity-driven-panic-attacks that you might find in the description below.

All that aside though, we’re pretty proud to be listed number 2 in London’s best startups to work at in 2021.

Covid-19 has forced almost every industry in the world to adjust in 2020, and none more so than the travel industry. It is however, an exciting time to be in Travel Tech, with endless opportunities opened up for innovation and forward-thinking that will help jump start the travel industry. Here at Impala, that’s our goal! Backed by some of  Europe’s leading investors, we’re on the cusp of launching a product that will connect people and travel once again.

What is Impala?

If you’re keen to be on the frontline of creating never-before-seen travel technology and experiences, you belong at Impala.

At Impala we’re solving an exciting, complex problem that has held back the hotel industry, if not the entire travel industry, for 20 years.

Forget following emerging technology trends — we’re looking to SET them.

Impala is making the process of booking hotel rooms ridiculously easy. In short, we’re providing hotels with powerful data distribution infrastructure.

More practically, we’re making the world a better place for guests, hotels, and online travel agents of any size. Think Twilio for Travel.

We’re growing at - quite frankly - a ridiculous old clip, since closing our Series B round in early 2020.

We’re looking for self-motivated folks to expand our high-performance team. You’ll be a brilliant fit if you’re obsessed with self-development, Stripe-level quality & reliability, smashing targets, and moving at a red-hot pace (hello, start-up life!)

Where is Impala going?

We’re supported by some of the most respected investors in the business, the early-stage backers behind Deliveroo, PillPack, SecretEscapes, Zoopla, Trivago, Monzo, Travelperk, Transferwise, Airbnb, GetYourGuide, Omio, Spotify and more! 

They’re on board because of the shared opportunity we have before us - revolutionising a 1.6 trillion dollar market that’s been out-of-date for 20 years.

They also share our vision of a future in which travel is seamlessly connected and relentlessly inventive.

Anyone travelling anywhere will interact with products powered by Impala. Our technology is already installed in hundreds of hotels worldwide, on six continents and categorises more than 1 billion data points. 

Sound interesting? 

If your answer is ‘yes’ and you want to learn more, check out our Medium page and our Culture Deck.

Apply if you want to bring your innovation bent and product-obsession to help change the game in travel.

For more information about what it's like working here, check out our Glassdoor page.

Hello!

Thanks for checking out our job description for a Backend Software Engineer at Impala. We felt a little bit impersonal just diving straight in with words like “revolutionising” and “disrupting”.

As such, we apologise in advance for any clichés, tropes or sudden-insecurity-driven-panic-attacks that you might find in the description below.

All that aside though, we’re pretty proud to be listed number 2 in London’s best startups to work at in 2021.

Covid-19 has forced almost every industry in the world to adjust in 2020, and none more so than the travel industry. It is however, an exciting time to be in Travel Tech, with endless opportunities opened up for innovation and forward-thinking that will help jump start the travel industry. Here at Impala, that’s our goal! Backed by some of  Europe’s leading investors, we’re on the cusp of launching a product that will connect people and travel once again.

What is Impala?

If you’re keen to be on the frontline of creating never-before-seen travel technology and experiences, you belong at Impala.

At Impala we’re solving an exciting, complex problem that has held back the hotel industry, if not the entire travel industry, for 20 years.

Forget following emerging technology trends — we’re looking to SET them.

Impala is making the process of booking hotel rooms ridiculously easy. In short, we’re providing hotels with powerful data distribution infrastructure.

More practically, we’re making the world a better place for guests, hotels, and online travel agents of any size. Think Twilio for Travel.

We’re growing at - quite frankly - a ridiculous old clip, since closing our Series B round in early 2020.

We’re looking for self-motivated folks to expand our high-performance team. You’ll be a brilliant fit if you’re obsessed with self-development, Stripe-level quality & reliability, smashing targets, and moving at a red-hot pace (hello, start-up life!)

Where is Impala going?

We’re supported by some of the most respected investors in the business, the early-stage backers behind Deliveroo, PillPack, SecretEscapes, Zoopla, Trivago, Monzo, Travelperk, Transferwise, Airbnb, GetYourGuide, Omio, Spotify and more! 

They’re on board because of the shared opportunity we have before us - revolutionising a 1.6 trillion dollar market that’s been out-of-date for 20 years.

They also share our vision of a future in which travel is seamlessly connected and relentlessly inventive.

Anyone travelling anywhere will interact with products powered by Impala. Our technology is already installed in hundreds of hotels worldwide, on six continents and categorises more than 1 billion data points. 

Sound interesting? 

If your answer is ‘yes’ and you want to learn more, check out our Medium page and our Culture Deck.

Apply if you want to bring your innovation bent and product-obsession to help change the game in travel.

For more information about what it's like working here, check out our Glassdoor page.

Hello!

Thanks for checking out our job description for a Backend Software Engineer at Impala. We felt a little bit impersonal just diving straight in with words like “revolutionising” and “disrupting”.

As such, we apologise in advance for any clichés, tropes or sudden-insecurity-driven-panic-attacks that you might find in the description below.

All that aside though, we’re pretty proud to be listed number 2 in London’s best startups to work at in 2021.

Covid-19 has forced almost every industry in the world to adjust in 2020, and none more so than the travel industry. It is however, an exciting time to be in Travel Tech, with endless opportunities opened up for innovation and forward-thinking that will help jump start the travel industry. Here at Impala, that’s our goal! Backed by some of  Europe’s leading investors, we’re on the cusp of launching a product that will connect people and travel once again.

What is Impala?

If you’re keen to be on the frontline of creating never-before-seen travel technology and experiences, you belong at Impala.

At Impala we’re solving an exciting, complex problem that has held back the hotel industry, if not the entire travel industry, for 20 years.

Forget following emerging technology trends — we’re looking to SET them.

Impala is making the process of booking hotel rooms ridiculously easy. In short, we’re providing hotels with powerful data distribution infrastructure.

More practically, we’re making the world a better place for guests, hotels, and online travel agents of any size. Think Twilio for Travel.

We’re growing at - quite frankly - a ridiculous old clip, since closing our Series B round in early 2020.

We’re looking for self-motivated folks to expand our high-performance team. You’ll be a brilliant fit if you’re obsessed with self-development, Stripe-level quality & reliability, smashing targets, and moving at a red-hot pace (hello, start-up life!)

Where is Impala going?

We’re supported by some of the most respected investors in the business, the early-stage backers behind Deliveroo, PillPack, SecretEscapes, Zoopla, Trivago, Monzo, Travelperk, Transferwise, Airbnb, GetYourGuide, Omio, Spotify and more! 

They’re on board because of the shared opportunity we have before us - revolutionising a 1.6 trillion dollar market that’s been out-of-date for 20 years.

They also share our vision of a future in which travel is seamlessly connected and relentlessly inventive.

Anyone travelling anywhere will interact with products powered by Impala. Our technology is already installed in hundreds of hotels worldwide, on six continents and categorises more than 1 billion data points. 

Sound interesting? 

If your answer is ‘yes’ and you want to learn more, check out our Medium page and our Culture Deck.

Apply if you want to bring your innovation bent and product-obsession to help change the game in travel.

For more information about what it's like working here, check out our Glassdoor page.

We intend to become the Twilio for Travel

Travel (alongside Healthcare) is one of the last untapped major industries for foundational technology and seamless integrations. And that is exactly what we intend to do.

It's a wide-open, out-of-date market, worth $1.6 trillion, that we intend to revolutionise and become synonymous with.

If you’re keen to be on the frontline of creating never-before-seen travel technology and experiences, you belong at Impala.

A brief overview of what you will be doing here:

You will be a key contributor to our API and data ingestion platform, ensuring that it keeps scaling smoothly as we rapidly add more users and features.

You will be given a lot of responsibility for evolving the infrastructure and picking the right tools for the job.

You will work closely with other engineers but also product and business teams to deliver a product that’s technically first-class and loved by our customers.

You should join us if you:

• Have experience working on a large-scale platform, handling large volumes of data throughput.
• Have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, as well as queuing systems.
• Are comfortable working closely with product owners and other engineers to define the best way to implement features with high technical standards.
• Share our organisational vision of democratising travel and enabling innovation across an entire industry.

Growth at Impala 

We pride ourselves on providing all Impalans tools and support to become world-class at their job. 

We’ll help you map out how you’d like your career to progress, and you’ll have access to a £1000 annual budget to spend on whatever helps you develop as a professional and as a person. 

What you will get in return? 

• Loved One’s Budget - £750 per year.
• Flexible working hours; with Core Hours from 10-3.
• Generous raise opportunities - at 3.5x the average payrise.
• Totally Flexible benefits;
• Free Food & Drinks;
• 1,000 Professional Development budget per year;
• Social Events & Budget, in person and remote;
• Personalised Workspace Budget;
• 36 Days Holiday per year;
• 1 Unsick Day per year;
• The flexibility to work anywhere in Europe, in your ideal home office or co-working space.
• Weekly Recess Hour;
• Weekly 10% Time;
• Remote Experience Manager and the ability to get involved in our unique Pop Up Parties.
• You'll work for a company that's proactive about its social responsibility within the travel industry.
• You’ll work for a company truly passionate about D&I to the extent that we made a D&I Deck. You can help build a company that intends to support diversity and inclusion at the grassroots.

Where will you work?

Engineers will always be, and always have been, fully-remote employees at Impala. We employ anyone within +/- 2h from GMT, timezone wise.

We have loads of remote initiatives to ensure you’re fully setup !

• Quarterly Engineering Colocation Weeks - including Hackathons, socials, and team visioning.
• £150 monthly WFH stipend - for furniture, coffee, snacks, wifi bills, cleaning, desk equipment, plants, plus anything in between. 
• Alternatively, a Co-Working Membership up to £350 per month, instead of the £150 stipend.
• Personalised Workspace Budget on top, for bigger things like sit-stand desks, monitors, keyboards, ergonomic desk chairs, headphones and much more. (up to £720 per year).
• Brand new high-spec laptop when you start, with the choice between a Thinkpad or Mac.

Remote does not mean distant. 

We arrange frequent get-togethers, remote socials and our ‘Pop Up Parties’, and we do all we can to foster a community. We consider ourselves experts in the remote culture space.

We even have a dedicated Remote Experience Manager in the team, whose role is, among other things, to ensure your happiness, and help you integrate and be empowered whilst working remotely.

About the team

We have Star teams full of Star players, across the board at Impala -- all of whom work to mutually elevate and support each other. 

We have people on board from a range of impressive backgrounds, from big industry players (like SkyScanner, Booking.com, Secret Escapes) to incredible startups (like Revolut, Truelayer, Paddle, Peak), plus lots more.

We intend to become the Twilio for Travel

Travel (alongside Healthcare) is one of the last untapped major industries for foundational technology and seamless integrations. And that is exactly what we intend to do.

It's a wide-open, out-of-date market, worth $1.6 trillion, that we intend to revolutionise and become synonymous with.

If you’re keen to be on the frontline of creating never-before-seen travel technology and experiences, you belong at Impala.

A brief overview of what you will be doing here:

You will be a key contributor to our API and data ingestion platform, ensuring that it keeps scaling smoothly as we rapidly add more users and features.

You will be given a lot of responsibility for evolving the infrastructure and picking the right tools for the job.

You will work closely with other engineers but also product and business teams to deliver a product that’s technically first-class and loved by our customers.

You should join us if you:

• Have experience working on a large-scale platform, handling large volumes of data throughput.
• Have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, as well as queuing systems.
• Are comfortable working closely with product owners and other engineers to define the best way to implement features with high technical standards.
• Share our organisational vision of democratising travel and enabling innovation across an entire industry.

Growth at Impala 

We pride ourselves on providing all Impalans tools and support to become world-class at their job. 

We’ll help you map out how you’d like your career to progress, and you’ll have access to a £1000 annual budget to spend on whatever helps you develop as a professional and as a person. 

What you will get in return? 

• Loved One’s Budget - £750 per year.
• Flexible working hours; with Core Hours from 10-3.
• Generous raise opportunities - at 3.5x the average payrise.
• Totally Flexible benefits;
• Free Food & Drinks;
• 1,000 Professional Development budget per year;
• Social Events & Budget, in person and remote;
• Personalised Workspace Budget;
• 36 Days Holiday per year;
• 1 Unsick Day per year;
• The flexibility to work anywhere in Europe, in your ideal home office or co-working space.
• Weekly Recess Hour;
• Weekly 10% Time;
• Remote Experience Manager and the ability to get involved in our unique Pop Up Parties.
• You'll work for a company that's proactive about its social responsibility within the travel industry.
• You’ll work for a company truly passionate about D&I to the extent that we made a D&I Deck. You can help build a company that intends to support diversity and inclusion at the grassroots.

Where will you work?

Engineers will always be, and always have been, fully-remote employees at Impala. We employ anyone within +/- 2h from GMT, timezone wise.

We have loads of remote initiatives to ensure you’re fully setup !

• Quarterly Engineering Colocation Weeks - including Hackathons, socials, and team visioning.
• £150 monthly WFH stipend - for furniture, coffee, snacks, wifi bills, cleaning, desk equipment, plants, plus anything in between. 
• Alternatively, a Co-Working Membership up to £350 per month, instead of the £150 stipend.
• Personalised Workspace Budget on top, for bigger things like sit-stand desks, monitors, keyboards, ergonomic desk chairs, headphones and much more. (up to £720 per year).
• Brand new high-spec laptop when you start, with the choice between a Thinkpad or Mac.

Remote does not mean distant. 

We arrange frequent get-togethers, remote socials and our ‘Pop Up Parties’, and we do all we can to foster a community. We consider ourselves experts in the remote culture space.

We even have a dedicated Remote Experience Manager in the team, whose role is, among other things, to ensure your happiness, and help you integrate and be empowered whilst working remotely.

About the team

We have Star teams full of Star players, across the board at Impala -- all of whom work to mutually elevate and support each other. 

We have people on board from a range of impressive backgrounds, from big industry players (like SkyScanner, Booking.com, Secret Escapes) to incredible startups (like Revolut, Truelayer, Paddle, Peak), plus lots more.

Hello!

Thanks for checking out our job description for a Backend Software Engineer at Impala. We felt a little bit impersonal just diving straight in with words like “revolutionising” and “disrupting”.

As such, we apologise in advance for any clichés, tropes or sudden-insecurity-driven-panic-attacks that you might find in the description below.

All that aside though, we’re pretty proud to be listed number 2 in London’s best startups to work at in 2021.

Covid-19 has forced almost every industry in the world to adjust in 2020, and none more so than the travel industry. It is however, an exciting time to be in Travel Tech, with endless opportunities opened up for innovation and forward-thinking that will help jump start the travel industry. Here at Impala, that’s our goal! Backed by some of  Europe’s leading investors, we’re on the cusp of launching a product that will connect people and travel once again.

What is Impala?

If you’re keen to be on the frontline of creating never-before-seen travel technology and experiences, you belong at Impala.

At Impala we’re solving an exciting, complex problem that has held back the hotel industry, if not the entire travel industry, for 20 years.

Forget following emerging technology trends — we’re looking to SET them.

Impala is making the process of booking hotel rooms ridiculously easy. In short, we’re providing hotels with powerful data distribution infrastructure.

More practically, we’re making the world a better place for guests, hotels, and online travel agents of any size. Think Twilio for Travel.

We’re growing at - quite frankly - a ridiculous old clip, since closing our Series B round in early 2020.

We’re looking for self-motivated folks to expand our high-performance team. You’ll be a brilliant fit if you’re obsessed with self-development, Stripe-level quality & reliability, smashing targets, and moving at a red-hot pace (hello, start-up life!)

Where is Impala going?

We’re supported by some of the most respected investors in the business, the early-stage backers behind Deliveroo, PillPack, SecretEscapes, Zoopla, Trivago, Monzo, Travelperk, Transferwise, Airbnb, GetYourGuide, Omio, Spotify and more! 

They’re on board because of the shared opportunity we have before us - revolutionising a 1.6 trillion dollar market that’s been out-of-date for 20 years.

They also share our vision of a future in which travel is seamlessly connected and relentlessly inventive.

Anyone travelling anywhere will interact with products powered by Impala. Our technology is already installed in hundreds of hotels worldwide, on six continents and categorises more than 1 billion data points. 

Sound interesting? 

If your answer is ‘yes’ and you want to learn more, check out our Medium page and our Culture Deck.

Apply if you want to bring your innovation bent and product-obsession to help change the game in travel.

For more information about what it's like working here, check out our Glassdoor page.

Travel (alongside Healthcare) is one of the last untapped major industries for foundational technology and seamless integrations. And that is exactly what we intend to do.

It's a wide-open, out-of-date market, worth $1.6 trillion, that we intend to revolutionise and become synonymous with.

If you’re keen to be on the frontline of creating never-before-seen travel technology and experiences, you belong at Impala.

A brief overview of what you will be doing here

You will be a key contributor to new frontend services, ensuring a high level of quality for both our code and our user experience.

Your role will involve analysing and optimising the product and technical performance of features to continually improve customer experience.

You will work closely with the Impala ensign team to create an enjoyable user experience.

You should join us if

• You have strong experience and expertise with ReactJS and good knowledge of JS fundamentals.
• You are comfortable working closely with product owners, designers, UX experts and the ability to translate their designs/requirements into maintainable, componentised UIs.
• You have experience with the design and consumption of REST APIs.
• You have knowledge and ability across the stack, and are able to contribute to and build out backend services, where necessary.
• You’re a creative over-achiever, who keeps it human.
• You share our organisational vision of democratising travel and enabling innovation across an entire industry.

Growth at Impala

We pride ourselves on providing all Impalans tools and support to become world-class at their job.

We’ll help you map out how you’d like your career to progress, and you’ll have access to a £1000 annual budget to spend on whatever helps you develop as a professional and as a person.

What you will get in return:

• Loved One’s Budget; - £750 per year.
• Flexible working hours; with Core Hours from 10-3.
• Generous raise opportunities - at 3.5x the average payrise.
• Totally Flexible benefits; you'll have dedicated budgets to use however you like
• 1,000 Professional Development budget per year;
• Social Events & Budget, in person and remote;
• Personalised Workspace Budget;
• 36 Days Holiday per year;
• 1 Unsick Day per year;
• The flexibility to work anywhere in Europe, and we'll support you if you want to move.
• Weekly Recess Hour;
• Weekly 10% Time;
• Remote Experience Manager and the ability to get involved in our unique Pop Up Parties.
• You'll work for a company that's proactive about its social responsibility within the travel industry.
• You’ll work for a company truly passionate about D&I to the extent that we made a D&I Deck. You can help build a company that intends to support diversity and inclusion at the grassroots. Where will you work?

Engineers will always be, and always have been, fully-remote employees at Impala. We employ anyone within +/- 2h from GMT, timezone wise.

We have loads of remote initiatives to ensure you’re fully setup!

• Quarterly Engineering Colocation Weeks - including Hackathons, socials, and team visioning.
• £150 monthly WFH stipend - for furniture, coffee, snacks, wifi bills, cleaning, desk equipment, plants, plus anything in between.
• Personalised Workspace Budget on top, for bigger things like sit-stand desks, monitors, keyboards, ergonomic desk chairs, headphones and much more. (up to £720 per year).
• Co-Working Membership up to £350 per month, instead of the £150 stipend.
• Brand new high-spec laptop when you start, with the choice between a Thinkpad or Mac.

Remote does not mean distant

We arrange frequent get-togethers, remote socials and our famous ‘Pop Up Parties’, and we do all we can to foster a community. We consider ourselves experts in the remote culture space.

We even have a dedicated Remote Experience Manager in the team, whose role is, among other things, to ensure your happiness, and help you integrate and be empowered whilst working remotely.

About the team

We have Star teams full of Star players, across the board at Impala (we optimise for quality over quantity in all facets of the business) -- all of whom work to mutually elevate and support each other.

We have people on board from a range of impressive backgrounds, from big industry players (like SkyScanner, Booking.com, Secret Escapes) to incredible startups (like Revolut, Truelayer, Paddle, Peak), plus lots more.

A brief overview of what you will be doing here:

You will be a key contributor to our API and data ingestion platform, ensuring that it keeps scaling smoothly as we rapidly add more users and features.

You will be given a lot of responsibility for evolving the infrastructure and picking the right tools for the job.

You will work closely with other engineers but also product and business teams to deliver a product that’s technically first-class and loved by our customers.

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You should join us if you:

• Have experience working on a large-scale platform, handling large volumes of data throughput.
• Have strong experience with Node.js and good knowledge of JS fundamentals.
• Have experience working with relational and non-relational databases, as well as queuing systems.
• Are comfortable working closely with product owners and other engineers to define the best way to implement features with high technical standards.
• Are an innovative over-achiever, who keeps it human.
• Share our organisational vision of democratising travel and enabling innovation across an entire industry.

-

You shouldn’t join us if (we want to be as honest and transparent as we can):

• You’d prefer a stable role with clear and consistent role expectations, over a sometimes elastic and flexible role.
• You value stability in a product and company, over change and fast-growth.
• You think lofty goals are better left to renovation builders.

-

Growth at Impala 

We pride ourselves on ensuring that we give every team member the tools and support they need to become world-class at their job. 

We’ll help you map out how you’d like your career to progress, enabling you to work towards wherever you want to get to.

We then put our money where our mouth is - you’ll have access to a £1000 annual budget to spend on whatever helps you develop as a professional and as a person. 

We also have a strong feedback and learning culture - meaning you’ll always know how you’re doing and what to work on.

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What you will get in return? 

• Loved One’s Budget - bring your loved ones to visit you, totally on us up to £750 per year, however near or far from home you are.
• Flexible working hours; with Core Hours from 10-3, meaning you can plan your workday around your own schedule. #flexappeal.
• Generous raise opportunities - pay reviews bi-annually, with 3.5x the average increase, using a fair, transparent and consistent formula.
• Totally Flexible benefits; meaning you can build your own adventure to create the most meaningful benefits package to you and your family and lifestyle. 
• Free Food & Drinks - through our weekly Lunch-Buddies initiative. 
• 1,000 Professional Development budget per year to invest in your own growth, with constant support from your manager.
• Social Events & Budget - a mixture of in-person (go-karting, mini-golf) and remote events.
• Personalised Workspace Budget - to rent out the perfect office equipment for you, in addition to the monthly WFH stipend.
• 36 Days Holiday per year - that’s in the top 14% in the UK.
• 1 Unsick Day per year - to keep on top of that healthcare admin.
• The flexibility to work anywhere in Europe, in the home office or co-working space that suits you and your preferred work environment.
• Weekly Recess Hour to step out from work and invest in some serious You Time! 
• Weekly 10% Time for your own Professional Development and personal projects.
• Remote Experience Manager and the ability to get involved in our unique Pop Up Parties.
• You'll work for a company that's proactive about its social responsibility within the travel industry.
• You’ll work for a company truly passionate about D&I to the extent that we made a D&I Deck. You can help build a company that intends to support diversity and inclusion at the grassroots.

-

Where will you work?

We are a remote-first company. This was a very deliberate, natural choice, as we prioritise preserving work-life balance and accommodating the best people in Europe, while also fostering diversity.

Engineers will always be, and always have been, fully-remote employees at Impala. We employ anyone within +/- 2h from GMT, timezone wise.

We have loads of remote initiatives to ensure you’re fully setup !

• Quarterly Engineering Colocation Weeks - including Hackathons, socials, and team visioning.
• A monthly £150 office stipend - for furniture, or just to purchase things like coffee, snacks, wifi bills, cleaning, desk equipment, plants, plus anything in between. 
• Alternatively, the option to expense the cost of a Co-Working Membership up to £350 per month.
• In addition, a generous Personalised Workspace Budget for bigger things like monitors, keyboards, desk chairs and headphones (up to £720 per year).
• We will give you a brand new high-spec laptop when you start, giving you the choice between a Thinkpad or Mac.

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Remote does not mean distant. 

We arrange frequent get-togethers, remote socials and our famous ‘Pop Up Parties’, and we do all we can to foster a community. We consider ourselves experts in the remote culture space.

We even have a dedicated Remote Experience Manager in the team, whose role is, among other things, to ensure your happiness, and help you integrate and be empowered whilst working remotely.

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About the team

We’ve always optimised for quality over quantity when expanding our team, and we’d always rather run a team lean than simply fill seats for speed.

That means that we have Star teams full of Star players, across the board at Impala -- all of whom work to mutually elevate and support each other. 

We’re a group of high-performing, fast-moving, innovation-bent and product-obsessed individuals, who don’t take ourselves too seriously.

We have people on board from a range of impressive backgrounds, from big industry players (like SkyScanner, Booking.com, Secret Escapes) to incredible startups (like Revolut, Truelayer, Paddle, Peak), plus lots more.

Hello!

Thanks for checking out our job description for a remote Backend Engineer (Node.js) (Remote)at Impala. We felt a little bit impersonal just throwing you right in there with words like “revolutionising” and “disrupting”.

As such, we want you to know that the person that wrote this job description apologises in advance for any clichés, tropes or sudden-insecurity-driven-panic-attacks that you might find in the description below.

What is Impala?

Impala is making the process of booking hotel rooms ridiculously easy. We’re providing hotels with a powerful data distribution infrastructure that transforms the way hotel guests across the world browse, book, stay and pay. Think Twilio for Travel.

We launched our original API product in January 2019 and since then have grown at - quite frankly - a ridiculous old clip. Our technology is already installed in hundreds of hotels worldwide, on six continents and categorises more than 1 billion data points. This has allowed us to bring forward our ambition to revolutionise the hotel distribution market and help empower millions of people across the globe.

We are a growing remote-first team of exceptional people split across engineering, product and commercial that have built a thriving, active, supportive community.

Where is Impala going?

We’re supported by some of the best investors in the business, the early-stage backers behind Deliveroo, PillPack, SecretEscapes, Zoopla, Trivago, Monzo, Travelperk, Transferwise, Airbnb, GetYourGuide, Omio, Spotify and more! 

They’re on board because of the opportunity that lies before us - revolutionising a 1.6 trillion dollar market that’s been out-of-date for 20 years.

They also share our vision of a future in which travel is seamlessly connected and relentlessly inventive.

Our vision is that within the next two years 10% of hotel bookings worldwide will flow through Impala technology, and the product that we’re building will support the entire ecosystem of travel technology (we already have over a thousand companies signed up).

Anyone travelling anywhere will interact with products powered by Impala and to achieve this we’re growing the team extensively within the next year. Now is the most exciting time to be joining Impala as we go through a large push to scale up!

A brief overview of what you will be doing here:

You will be a key contributor to our distribution marketplace platform, ensuring that it keeps scaling smoothly as we rapidly add more customers and features. You will be given a lot of responsibility for evolving the infrastructure and picking the right tools for the job.

You will work closely with other engineers but also product and business teams to deliver a product that’s technically first-class and loved by our customers.

You should join us if you:

• Have significant experience with Node.js and good knowledge of JS fundamentals
• Have experience working with relational databases
• Have experience working on a large-scale platform
• Are comfortable working closely with product owners and other engineers to define the best way to implement features with high technical standards

 Where will you work?

This is a remote position. This means you can work from anywhere +/- 2 Hours of London timezone (and less than a 3 hour flight).

We are a remote-first company, our whole engineering team is fully distributed! This was a very deliberate choice to prioritise work-life balance and ensure we’re able to accommodate the best people in Europe, whilst fostering diversity.

We have loads of remote initiatives to ensure you’re fully setup !

• We give you an additional generous Personalised Workspace Budget for things like monitors, keyboards, desk chairs and headphones.
• We offer an office stipend - you can furnish your home office with a generous £150 monthly stipend (coffee, snacks, wifi bills, cleaning, desk equipment, plus anything in between) or we will pay for a co-working membership near you.
• You’ll travel once a quarter to meet and socialise with the rest of the engineering team somewhere in Europe.
• You’ll have a generous Social Budget to travel to London based social events.
• We have a dedicated Remote Experience Manager in the team, whose role is, among other things, to ensure your happiness, and help you integrate and be empowered whilst working remotely.
• We will give you a brand new high-spec laptop when you start, giving you the choice between a Thinkpad or Mac.

Please note, we only accept candidates in Western Europe because of timezone and travel time differences. We make no exceptions (we don’t have time to!). 

What you will get in return? 

• We reward Impalans with super competitive salaries and regular reviews. Whether you're an individual contributor or you want to manage people, there's plenty of opportunity to develop your skills and boost your earning potential. We offer 3.5x the average annual raise in the UK, even if you remain within the same role.
• We’re in the top 14% of companies in the UK for the amount of holiday that we offer, at 36 days.
• One Unsick day off per year, to keep up with proactive health admin - so you can finally sort that trip to the dentist and get those health screens that you never have time to do.
• Flexible working options. With extended lunch break options, Recess Hour, and loads more.
• We invest in your development with a generous £1,000 Professional Development budget per year, and we will support you to realise your potential. 
• Fun and inclusive monthly social events, from go-karting to mini golf to karaoke.
• Access to Perkbox. 
• A super strong and proactive focus on mental and physical wellbeing. From Vitality health insurance, to Sanctus, to a monthly gym membership reimbursement, plus heaps more.
• A generous Loved Ones Budget - £750 annually to get your friends & family over to visit you once a year, no matter how near or far from home you are based. (engineering only)
• Weekly 10% Time. (engineering only)

Sound interesting? 

If your answer is ‘yes’ and you are really excited to learn more then please check out our Medium page which includes more information about who we are, what we do, what matters to us, and our culture.

Want to know more about our CEO, or want a deeper understanding of our what and why? Watch this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxBZuoxCbKM

For more information about what it's like working here, check out our Glassdoor page.