About Vogo

Vogo is a global travel platform that brings all types of accommodations into one place, making it easy for travelers to find the perfect stay.

From downtown hotels and luxury resorts to private vacation rentals and remote cabins, Vogo offers the widest selection of accommodations worldwide. Vogo's proprietary technology then scans billions of data points to surface the best deals across millions of properties, streamlining discovery, and booking for every traveler.

Since launching out of Wilbur Labs in 2018, Vogo has rapidly become one of the most trusted travel platforms globally, surpassing $1 billion in gross bookings in just two years. Vogo is headquartered in Dallas and led by a team of travel industry veterans.

About this Role

Vogo is seeking a hands-on Senior Full Stack Engineer to work across our frontend and backend stack and build the products our travelers use every day. You'll own both user-facing features and the services that power them, from turning design concepts into polished user experiences to building the APIs and backend systems that support them.

This is a senior role in practice, not just in title or compensation band. As one of the senior engineers in our Dallas office, you will serve as a technical leader for the team, helping drive release readiness, mentoring engineers, contributing to architecture decisions, and shaping how we build and scale the platform. You will have meaningful influence over both technical direction and engineering culture.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with an ownership mindset and a passion for building high-quality products. Success in this role requires someone who cares equally about the customer experience users see and the performance, reliability, and scalability running underneath.

This role reports to the Head of Engineering. It's a full-time hybrid position based in Dallas.

Role & Responsibilities:

Collaborate closely with leadership, product, and engineering teams to design, architect, and deliver end-to-end features across our platform

Build and maintain user-facing applications using React, Next.js, and TypeScript, ensuring high performance, accessibility, and exceptional user experiences

Develop, maintain, and optimize backend services using Node.js while integrating with PostgreSQL and other internal systems

Contribute across all areas of the business where software is needed, including internal tools, operational systems, data integrations, warehousing, and reporting solutions

Collaborate closely with engineering peers to maximize overall productivity, exchange expertise, and uphold excellent benchmarks for code quality, system performance, and dependability

Contribute to code reviews and architectural planning, driving ongoing optimizations across our engineering workflows, developer tools, and core infrastructure

Help lead releases and share ownership of release readiness alongside other senior engineers

Mentor and support engineers across the team while helping establish and maintain technical standards and best practices

Act as a technical point of contact for your area, proactively flagging risks and pushing back on scope when something doesn't fit our stack

Minimum Qualifications:

6+ years of backend software engineering experience

Strong experience with Node.js and PostgreSQL, or equivalent experience with modern backend technologies and relational databases

Experience building modern frontend applications using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS

Strong SQL skills with the ability to write, debug, optimize, and maintain complex queries

Solid understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, API design, and scalability principles

Experience with cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices, preferably within Google Cloud or AWS environments, including CI/CD, monitoring, and infrastructure as code

Entrepreneurial mindset with a self-driven, ownership mentality

Excellent collaboration and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications & Prior Experience:

Experience in the travel, marketplace, or e-commerce industry

Experience scaling consumer-facing systems to millions of daily users

Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in technical communities

Experience with Google Cloud Platform or equivalent cloud infrastructure providers

Benefits & Perks:

Competitive salary + equity

Top-tier laptop provided

100% company-paid health benefits for base plan coverage, with the option to upgrade to higher-tier plans

401(k) with company match

Unlimited, guilt-free vacation days

Annual wellness stipend (gym + other wellness activities)

Monthly house cleaning stipend

Annual travel allowance

Monthly cell phone & internet usage stipend

Charity donation company match

Employee referral bonus

Team offsites/activities

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