Omio's vision is to enable seamless travel for people anywhere, in any way. We are bringing all global transport options into a single distribution system to create magical end-to-end consumer journeys. 

With Omio, you can easily compare and book trains, buses, ferries, and flights across Europe, the US, and Canada using a single search on your mobile, app, or desktop. Omio aims to simplify travel planning by providing transparent pricing and easy booking, making it a flexible and personalised experience. 

Omio is the largest source of inventory, working with over 1000 suppliers across 46 countries. Our portfolio also includes Rome2Rio for global discovery, while Omio powers ticketing and journeys, attracting over 900 million users annually. 

Our offices are located in Berlin, Prague, Melbourne, Brazil, Bangalore, and London. We are a growing team of over 400 passionate employees from more than 50 countries who all share the same vision: to create a unified tool to help travellers reach almost any destination in the world.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a key contributor in an agile team continuing the transition towards becoming fully AI-native. You will play a critical role in identifying and implementing automation opportunities, enabling seamless integrations with hundreds and thousands of transportation providers worldwide.

Your work will directly impact millions of travellers by simplifying complex transportation systems and APIs into intuitive, reliable booking experiences. From booking a bus in Vietnam to a train with České dráhy, you will help make global travel feel effortless.

You will design and build scalable, high-performance systems that are resilient and increasingly self-healing, reducing manual intervention and enabling engineers to focus on meaningful improvements.
 

What you will do:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs

• Take ownership of features across the full development lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring

• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define and deliver impactful features

• Drive the adoption of AI-assisted development and automation within the team

• Contribute to building reliable, observable, and self-healing systems

• Improve system performance, scalability, and reliability

• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and architectural decisions

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to raising the engineering bar

• Help define and evolve best practices for software development and cross-team collaboration

Technology

Our platform is built on Java (25), Spring, Spring Boot. We also use Go, Couchbase, BigQuery, Docker, Kubernetes, Graphite, Grafana, Kibana, and GraphQL.

Check our tech stack: https://omio.tech/radar

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, preferably in backend or distributed systems

• Strong proficiency in modern backend frameworks

• Experience building and operating scalable, distributed systems in production

• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Hands-on experience with AI tools and developer productivity tooling (e.g. Cursor, Claude, automation tools like n8n, Windmill, etc.)

• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices, testing, and system design

• Experience working in agile environments

• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive mindset

What’s in it for you? #LifeAtOmio

• Have an impact. With innovation and smart technology, we are changing the way people travel, and you too can have an impact on this ride
• Modern, welcoming, pet-friendly office spaces across the world
• Compensated sabbatical for long-term employees
• Work from anywhere in the world for 4 weeks
• A competitive and attractive compensation package
• Multisport Card fully covered
• Annual birthday holiday
• One additional day of annual leave per year of service
• Annual travel benefits and educational allowances
• A diverse team of more than 55+ nationalities

Hiring process and background checks

At Omio, we work in partnership with Giant Screening, once a job offer has been accepted, Giant will be engaged to carry out background screening. Giant will reach out to you via email and occasionally via telephone/text message so that they can gather all relevant information required. Consent will be requested prior to any information being passed to our services company.

Diversity makes us stronger

We value diversity and welcome all applicants regardless of ethnicity, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age or disability.

Intrigued? Apply here in English.