G Adventures is the worlds largest small-group adventure travel company and weve 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 companys story and wed 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. Youll 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 cant wait for you to join us.
About The Role
Changing the world through travel: thats been our goal since 1990. Sure, call us dreamers (wouldnt be the first time), but that idea has been at the heart of everything weve ever done and has helped us grow into one of the biggest adventure travel companies on the planet.
Our developers are excited to work at G Adventures because we love tech, travel, and changing people's lives. We pride ourselves in working in an open-source environment with the ability to select the right tools for the job. Our industry, adventure travel, is fun and there are many challenges for curious software engineers, or even just slightly inquisitive ones.
Youll be joining a Platform Systems team within the amazing Technology department here at G. Your role will focus on helping to drive some of our operational, reservations, or API systems.
The role is a hybrid role based out of South Africa, where a minimum number of days as set by the region, is required in the Cape Town office. Before you apply please consider whether this aligns to your location.
We believe that embracing our unique perspectives and expertise is key to our success as a collaborative team. We are seeking product-minded, empowered individuals who work collaboratively with their globally distributed peers on interesting problems. We value diversity, attracting the best people in the world to serve as colleagues.
What You'll Be Doing
- Learn all you can about our existing system and applications
- Design, code, test, and maintain software applications and systems
- Develop software solutions that meet the needs of end-users and stakeholders
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code
- Debug and troubleshoot software defects and performance issues
- Develop and implement comprehensive testing plans, including unit, integration, and system testing
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation of code, processes, and project-related information
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies
- 4+ years of Python experience
- Ability to navigate the command line
- Strong and demonstrated data modeling experience with attention to detail
- SQL familiarity; you can hand code moderately complex SQL queries, but only when needed
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Ability to write documentation clearly and concisely, and to communicate well with non-technical stakeholders
- Experience crafting or working closely with Web/REST/GraphQL APIs
- Understanding of common application stacks (nginx, uwsgi, etc.)
- Knowledge of web standards; excitement about new technologies
- 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
G Adventures is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants.
