About UsG Adventures is the world’s largest small-group adventure travel company and we’ve 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 company’s story — and we’d 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. You’ll 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 can’t wait for you to join us.About Us and the Role:G Adventures is the world’s largest small-group adventure travel company and we’ve been making epic travel memories happen on all seven continents for over 30 years.With the demand for travel coming back strong, we are set up and excited for this next chapter in our company’s story — and we’d love for you to be a part of it.Our developers are excited to work at G Adventures because we love tech, we love travel, and we love changing people's lives. We enjoy working in an open-source environment with the ability to select the right tools for the job. Adventure travel is fun and there are many challenges for curious software engineers, with space to disrupt the industry standard.You’ll be joining the Product Systems team within the Technology department at G Adventures. That means writing, debugging, and deploying software for our React and Django based applications. Our React application is a single page app supported exclusively by an API layer, where the Django backend plays a role in a larger API ecosystem.You’ll work on the tools our Product, Local Operations, Buying, and Marketing teams use to build all aspects of the products sold by G Adventures and its group of businesses. You’ll play a key role in building and maintaining a collection of front-end and backend-end applications which work in cohesion with our API-driven infrastructure.You’ll work in a small and distributed team, where communication, empathy, and support of each other are key to our success as a people-first culture.What You'll be Doing:Integrate into the team quickly. Deploy often and earlyWrite short specs and prototypes to test new ideasWrite unit tests for the new code that you craft. Improve test coverage, follow development standardsEnsure your code is designed with maintainability in mindNurture the applications and tools, through working with stakeholders and understanding their needsWork with the team to prototype wireframes and similar as we plan larger features. A keen eye for the user experience is very welcomeWork with other software teams to improve system communications and performanceExplore and review new technologies, for improvement opportunitiesParticipate in design and regular code reviews; helping your colleagues do their bestDesired Skills and Experience:7+ years of experience working in Python is necessary, Django is a plus5+ years of experience working in ReactFundamental HTML & CSS knowledgeDeep familiarity with browser behaviour and tooling. Request/response, DOM, devtools, etcComfort navigating the command line, especially with GitUnderstanding of common application stacks (nginx, Node.js, uwsgi, etc.)Design sensibilities, both in UX and code craftsmanshipPostgreSQL familiarity; digging in when addressing performance issues, can wrangle SQL queriesWorking with microservice architectures is a plusUnderstanding of the full web stack – from browser to server and backThis 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.What do we offer you?Competitive salary commensurate with the roleCompetitive benefits packageBirthday day offVacation time for you to rechargeEnhanced Parental LeaveLearning and growth opportunitiesEmployee Resource Groups*Applicable based on location*G Adventures is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants.
