Senior Product Engineer, IMS (all genders)

About the Position

Senior Product Engineer, IMS (all genders)

You’ll be shaping the core B2B product that connects global carriers, retailers, and travel partners to Distribusion’s infrastructure.

About Us

Distribusion is the world’s leading ground transportation marketplace and gives travellers seamless access to ground transportation online, from search to ticket purchase. We have built a cutting-edge B2B technology platform that connects bus, rail, and ferry operators in 70+ countries with the biggest online retailers, including Google Maps and Booking.com.

We are shaping the future of travel and building the largest global network of transport providers and retailers. Having grown 10x in the past year, we are one of the fastest-growing startups in travel. Backed by four leading VCs (TQ Ventures, Creandum, Northzone, and Lightrock), and now, following our recent $80 m Series C, we are ready to push beyond.

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.
• Build a revenue management system that dynamically prices seats based on time to departure, demand, and remaining 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: CI, PR reviews, local testing, and release processes.
• Partner with stakeholders across operations, planning, and revenue.
• Drive improvements in tooling and practices, including AI-assisted development, better testing approaches, and scalable self-service capabilities.

Requirements

• Several years of experience building and operating backend services in Python.
• Demonstrated ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive projects.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and data-intensive applications.
• Deep database expertise: transaction management, ACID guarantees, indexing strategies, query optimisation, locking, partitioning, and sharding.
• Experience building reliable distributed systems using patterns such as outbox, idempotency, retries, and eventual consistency.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: API design, testing strategies, observability, debugging, performance optimisation, and maintaining production systems.
• Fluent in English, both verbal and written. Comfortable collaborating in a distributed team across multiple time zones.

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, messaging systems, distributed databases, and high-availability architectures.

We Offer

• Make a global impact. Help shape how millions of people discover and book ground transportation worldwide.
• Own your work. Take responsibility from day one and see the direct impact of your contributions.
• Build with the best tools. We move fast, continuously evolve our tech stack, and invest in modern, efficient solutions.
• Work with industry leaders. Our partners include Booking.com, Google Maps, Amtrak, Deutsche Bahn, Renfe, and SNCF.
• Grow with exceptional people. Join an international team that will challenge, support, and inspire you every day.
• Work your way. Enjoy flexible and remote-friendly working options, relocation opportunities, and plenty of room to grow.

About the Company

Distribusion is the world’s leading ground transportation marketplace and gives travellers seamless access to ground transportation online, from search to ticket purchase. We have built a cutting-edge B2B technology platform that connects bus, rail, and ferry operators in 70+ countries with the biggest online retailers, including Google Maps and Booking.com.

We are shaping the future of travel and building the largest global network of transport providers and retailers. Having grown 10x in the past year, we are one of the fastest-growing startups in travel. Backed by four leading VCs (TQ Ventures, Creandum, Northzone, and Lightrock), and now, following our recent $80 m Series C, we are ready to push beyond.