Pricelabs

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer (Integrations) to contribute to PriceLabs' ambitious plans. We have an existing product that's being used by thousands of customers worldwide and are looking to upgrade our design and launch new features that will serve customers worldwide.

What you will learn at PriceLabs:

Scaling:

• We currently exchange tens of millions of prices between us and our partners multiple times every day! As we continue to grow, designing our architecture to keep working seamlessly is going to need a lot of teamwork 
• Doubling in size every year brings unique scaling challenges. Our product started with one single server doing everything needed, but over time we've created a fairly distributed architecture of micro-services. Ensuring our systems continue to provide the same level of service with twice the number of customers next year teaches us (and you!) forward thinking!

Fundamentals:

• We have a very strong emphasis on fundamentals - writing code in strict memory requirements, setting up a server from scratch, being able to use open source services (like nginx, mysql, linux servers, redis, rabbitmq) to get the best performance out sets our team up for long term success.
• Implementing to the standards of operating systems, working in a thread safe/unsafe environment.
• Understand how servers interact with each other in a data center. How does nginx and unicorn power the communication for our APIs.

Customer-centric engineering:

• Making a product that needs to work for both single home-owners as well as enterprise customers to property management businesses - we're on a journey towards design and process thinking to ensure systems are easy to use. Expect strong collaboration with customer facing, design and data science teams!

New products:

• We have a lot of ground level infrastructure available for us to build new products for both our customers and our industry partners to use. Architecting these systems from scratch is a joy in itself (our team has done this a few times!)

Amazing team:

• Our engineering team is very focused on getting things done, and getting them done the right way so the last long! Write better code everyday, solving customer and co-worker pain points, and learning from our peers is what keeps us going!

 

Responsibilities:

• You will work with Ruby, we are a RoR platform so understanding how ruby interacts with database would be ideal but not preferred.
• Build new integrations with property management systems (PMS) and also maintain existing ones.
• Understand nuances of downstream systems and design and architect your solution keeping in mind third party systems
• Talk to existing PMS and understand what new features can be incorporated and what existing features need to be updated.
• Fix issues that break and keep a track of daily status and understand inefficiencies.
• Engage with PMS partners and optimise the existing pipeline.
• Continuous improvement to our web stack, set standards, automate mundane tasks

 

Requirements:

• 4+ years experience in back end web development and understanding Ruby would be great but not mandatory.
• You should be comfortable working with git, visual studio code(or any IDE that you prefer) and test your own code thoroughly before making a PR.
• Ability to architect and develop systems so it can connect seamlessly with PMS and third party systems.
• Ability to understand Message queues and how a pub-sub system works with multiple servers
• Experience in building distributed systems that integrate with RESTful APIs and SOAP XMLs.

PriceLabs (https://www.chicagobusiness.com/innovators/what-if-you-could-adjust-prices-meet-demand" target="_blank">chicagobusiness.com/innovators/what-if-you-could-adjust-prices-meet-demand) is a cloud based software for vacation and short term rentals to help them dynamically manage prices just the way large hotels and airlines do! Our mission is to help small businesses in the travel and tourism industry by giving them access to advanced analytical systems that are often restricted to large companies. 

We're looking for someone with strong analytical capabilities who wants to understand how our current architecture and algorithms work, and help us design and develop long lasting solutions to address those. Depending on the needs of the day, the role will come with a good mix of team-work, following our best practices, introducing us to industry best practices, independent thinking, and ownership of your work.

 

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and enhance our pricing algorithms to enable new capabilities.
• Process, analyze, model, and visualize findings from our market level supply and demand data.
• Build and enhance internal and customer facing dashboards to better track metrics and trends that help customers use PriceLabs in a better way.
• Take ownership of product ideas and design discussions.
• Occasional travel to conferences to interact with prospective users and partners, and learn where the industry is headed.

Requirements:

• Bachelors, Masters or Ph. D. in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science or other quantitative/engineering fields.
• Strong understanding of analysis of algorithms, data structures and statistics.
• Solid programming experience. Including being able to quickly prototype an idea and test it out.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability and willingness to explain complicated algorithms and concepts in simple terms.
• Experience with relational databases and strong knowledge of SQL.
• Experience building data heavy analytical models in the travel industry.
• Experience in the vacation rental industry.
• Experience developing dynamic pricing models.
• Prior experience working at a fast paced environment.
• Willingness to wear many hats.

We are looking for an experienced UI / Frontend Engineer to contribute to PriceLabs' ambitious plans. You will be our first UI engineer - so you'll have the opportunity not only to roll up your sleeves to get the work done and but also equally contribute to building processes necessary for scaling.

We have an existing product that's being used by thousands of customers worldwide and are looking to upgrade our design and launch new features that will serve customers worldwide.

Why join PriceLabs?
PriceLabs was founded in 2014 and has been consistently growing over the past couple of years.
We have established ourselves as a leader in revenue management for Short-term rentals.
We serve thousands of customers worldwide, and our customers love the product! (NPS in the 70s, Customer reviews here)
We are a global team of passionate individuals that accepts open communication, empowerment, and a shared focus on customer success.
We are a freemium product, and the UX plays an important part in convincing the customer.

Responsibilities:
You will work with JavaScript, HTML and CSS. We are a RoR platform so understanding how ruby interacts with HTML would be ideal but not preferred.
Build and maintain existing web/mobile experiences.
Collaborate with design to deliver projects on time.
Write quality code so others in the team can understand and test it throughly on modern browsers and mobile.
Take initiative to modernize our platform to use the latest techniques
Continuous improvement to our web stack, set standards, automate mundane tasks

Requirements:
At least 3 years experience in front-end web development.
You should be comfortable working with git, visual studio code(or any IDE that you prefer), and test it to the last pixel.
Ability to architect and develop your own API on the front end.
Experience with monitoring and error reporting tools in front-end applications.
Partner closely with the product designer and have experience with Sketch/Figma is helpful.
Experience building websites that integrate with APIs using frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular.