Senior Product Engineer, IMS

About the role

Distribusion is seeking an experienced Senior Product Engineer to own and evolve core systems end-to-end. You will work closely with product, operations, and data stakeholders to build and maintain high-scale systems that power ground transportation bookings and revenue management. This role involves designing robust data models, improving development workflows, and driving technical direction for a global travel marketplace.

Responsibilities

• Build a customer-facing transit schedule system that handles hundreds of thousands of bus departures daily.
• Build a ticket booking backend that allocates bus seats to travellers and handles complex reallocation scenarios.
• Build a revenue management system that dynamically prices seats based on demand and capacity.
• Own and evolve the data transformation layer that powers schedules, bookings, and revenue.
• Raise data quality through strong testing, contracts, freshness checks, and monitoring.
• Improve development workflows including CI, PR reviews, local testing, and release processes.
• Partner with stakeholders across operations, planning, and revenue to turn ambiguous problems into clear requirements.

Required skills

• Python
• Distributed systems
• Data-intensive applications
• Database design
• Transaction management
• API design
• Observability
• Performance optimisation

Nice to have

• Cloud infrastructure
• Messaging systems
• Distributed databases
• High-availability architectures

Qualifications

• Several years of experience building and operating backend services
• Fluent in English

Benefits

• Flexible working options
• Remote-friendly working
• Relocation opportunities

About the Company

Distribusion is the world’s leading ground transportation marketplace, connecting bus, rail, and ferry operators in over 70 countries with major online retailers. Backed by leading VCs, the company is one of the fastest-growing startups in the travel industry.