Do you want to revolutionize the way people travel? Are you passionate about travel and believe in the power of social technology? Do you want to join a high caliber team of people with the ambition to change the world?
LowCostHotels is a popular source of trusted travel recommendations for hotels worldwide. Launched in November 2016 LowCostHotels was the first hotels booking company to refocus online travel accommodations on affordable hotels which maximize the customer’s value for money.
Based in Downtown Seattle, LowCostHotels launched its private beta in April 2017. The site has since been covered by TIME, Wall Street Journal, and was mentioned in several other sites for revolutionizing the travel consumer trends.
We believe the internet should deliver personalized, trusted experiences.
We believe in creating experiences that consumers will love and want to tell their friends about.
And we believe passionately that planning your trips and sharing your travel experiences should be fun, easy and social.
We put the traveller’s interest first before our commission rates. This is why hundreds of travelers choose everyday to start their travel planning with us.
LowCostHotels employees comprise the best team in travel. We work hard while maintaining a healthy balance with our personal lives. We're looking for team members who take initiative and demonstrate resourcefulness, innovation, guts, urgency, and passion. We're also looking for people who believe, in these immortal words of Dr. Seuss: "Fun is good!"
We're serious about what we do, but we still promote and advocate an open, laid-back atmosphere. We work in a casual environment where it's okay to wear jeans everyday if you want...though we ask everyone to think twice if they're meeting with the CEO of a really big airline, hotel, car rental company or cruise line. So, if you have an affinity for denim and t-shirts, you could fit right in.
Since we're in the travel business, we encourage employees to go out and see the world. That's why LowCostHotels offers an above-average amount of time off to our team members. We also offer the opportunity to earn travel discounts after six months with the company.
LowCostHotels is remote oriented workplace. We believe that working with talents should not be limited to a geographical area. This is why we encourage talents from all over the world to apply to the relevant positions.
We are seeking people who are passionate about innovation with the ambition to change the world.
Join the travel revolution! Send us a note at [email protected]
You will be responsible building the back-end infrastructure and developing end-to-end user facing features for a revolutionary social travel service. You will design and implement extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable server systems.
Requirements:
2+ years of industry experience
Experience building large-scale server applications and reliable software
Expert level in PHP and working with frameworks (Laravel preferred)
Expert level experience with an object oriented programming language
Expert level experience with Database schema design, Postgres
Strong problem solving and analytical skills
Highly motivated self-starter
Ability to tackle challenging problems on a tight schedule
Prior experience with building platform technologies a plus
Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, S3, MapReduce) a plus
Experience processing big data / NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis)
You learn new languages and technologies quickly, are innovative, enjoy challenges and have a great work ethic
You will be responsible building the recommendation engine for the recommendations service. You will research, design and implement scalable algorithms to personalize user experience and deliver the most relevant results based on each users' unique tastes. We work with Big Data everyday and have to analyze thousands of data point reporting to our servers everyday.
Requirements:
Experience building large-scale recommender system is a plus
Experience with large-scale data mining using Hadoop/Hbase/Pig or MapReduce/Sawzall/Bigtable a plus
Comfort manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources
Expert level experience with an object oriented programming language
Experience with Postgres
Strong problem solving and analytical skills
Highly motivated self-starter
Ability to tackle challenging problems on a tight schedule
Prior experience with building platform technologies a plus
Knowledge in natural language processing, and/or information retrieval, information extraction, text classification are pluses
You learn new languages and technologies quickly, are innovative, enjoy challenges and have a great work ethic
We are committed to hiring, promoting, and compensating employees based on their qualifications and demonstrated ability to perform job responsibilities. As an equal opportunity employer, LowCostHotels promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants, without regard to age, race, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, condition of pregnancy, or any other legally protected characteristic.
LowCostHotels does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.