Software Engineer 2, Distributed Systems at Skyscanner · Barcelona

About Skyscanner Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️ That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 160 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻 Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all 🌍 Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here) About the role Hybrid You’ll join our Packages team, owning the experience end-to-end and helping scale it into a flagship Skyscanner product as we grow this exciting new travel vertical. You won’t be building in isolation. This role partners closely with teams across engineering, product and data to unlock new capabilities and create seamless, end-to-end travel experiences. This is a great fit if you enjoy a bit of ambiguity, where ideas are tested, refined and quickly turned into real products. With AI-powered tooling and modern engineering practices, you’ll help accelerate how we design and deliver, keeping quality high while moving at pace. Your work will directly shape how people discover, compare and book their trips, making travel planning feel simpler, faster and more intuitive. You’ll take ownership of key workstreams, balancing hands-on engineering with guiding technical direction, while learning from every launch as we experiment, iterate and continuously improve. What you’ll be doing Evolving search and pricing experiences: You’ll lead the delivery of enhancements across pricing and discovery—like flexible dates, region-based search and smarter ways to explore—helping travellers find options that truly fit their plans. Designing scalable backend capabilities: You’ll build the services that power features like maps, hotel reviews, rich filters and amenity attributes. Unlocking cross-vertical value: By combining flight and hotel data, you’ll surface real-time opportunities and discounts that make Packages genuinely compelling. Improving ranking and relevance: You’ll collaborate with Data Science to refine ranking algorithms as we expand into new markets. Exploring AI-powered discovery: From natural language search to personalised recommendations, you’ll help bring intelligent features into the traveller journey. Collaborating across teams: You’ll work closely with engineers, product managers and stakeholders across multiple tribes to deliver cohesive, high-impact solutions. Experimenting and iterating quickly: Through A/B testing and fast feedback loops, you’ll learn from traveller behaviour and continuously raise the bar. About you A distributed systems engineer: You’ve built and operated scalable systems and are comfortable working with technologies like Kubernetes, gRPC and observability tooling. Curious beyond your core stack: While backend is your strength, you’re open to growing your frontend skills with React, TypeScript and modern web practices. Comfortable with change: You enjoy working on evolving products and can adapt quickly as priorities shift. A strong communicator: You can clearly document decisions, align stakeholders and drive cross-team technical initiatives. Always improving things: You spot opportunities to simplify, automate or apply AI to unlock speed and impact. Hands-on and accountable: You’re confident leading delivery for a stream of work while staying close to the code and pairing regularly. A collaborative teammate: You share knowledge openly and contribute to an inclusive, supportive team environment. What it's like here We are the real deal— no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans ❤️ building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier 🧭 Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better — and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all ✨ Sound like your kind of adventure? 🚀 Apply now and help us shape the future of travel. We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.