Senior Full Stack Developer, CEO Systems

at  G Adventures

About Us
G Adventures is the world’s largest small-group adventure travel company and we’ve been making epic travel memories happen on all seven continents for over 30 years.
Our mission is simple: to change lives through travel. And not just our travelers’ either. Since day one, our tours have been built to establish meaningful relationships with local communities, directly benefiting the people and places we visit at every step of our tours.
With the demand for travel coming back strong, we are set up and excited for this next chapter in our company’s story — and we’d love for you to be a part of it.
Our DNA revolves around building, nurturing, and developing a diverse culture of people and a true sense of belonging, where everyone is encouraged to bring their authentic self to work each and every day. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, and yourself, alongside a passionate, talented, and welcoming community that works hard to spread goodness around the world.
If all that sounds like your kind of thing, well, we can’t wait for you to join us.
About Us
G Adventures is the world’s largest small-group adventure travel company and we’ve been making epic travel memories happen on all seven continents for over 30 years.
Our mission is simple: to change lives through travel. And not just our travellers’ either. Since day one, our tours have been built to establish meaningful relationships with local communities, directly benefiting the people and places we visit at every step of our tours.
With the demand for travel coming back strong, we are set up and excited for this next chapter in our company’s story — and we’d love for you to be a part of it.
Our DNA revolves around building, nurturing, and developing a diverse culture of people and a true sense of belonging, where everyone is encouraged to bring their authentic self to work each and every day. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, and yourself, alongside a passionate, talented, and welcoming community that works hard to spread goodness around the world.
If all that sounds like your kind of thing, well, we can’t wait for you to join us.
About the Role
G Adventures runs thousands of trips per month so it is important for us to know in advance how many trips to run, when and where to run them and at what price they should be sold. All of this information, and more, is managed and referenced in our Inventory Management Tool, Lumos.
You’ll be joining the CEO Systems team within the Technology department at G Adventures. Don’t worry, this doesn’t mean systems for our Chief Executive Officer. At G, our CEOs are our Chief Experience Officers, our tour leaders. You will be responsible for maintaining, supporting and modifying Lumos for our Revenue Management Team to help them make sound, financial, business decisions. That means writing, debugging, and deploying software for the Python and Django based application.
You’ll play a key role in building and maintaining Lumos to work in cohesion with other systems such as our API, booking engine, business intelligence and financial reporting systems.
You’ll work in a small, remote-led team, where communication, collaboration, empathy, and support of each other are key to our success in our people-first culture.

What You’ll be Doing

• Integrate into the team quickly. Deploy often and early
• Take ownership of the product, leading the team through business projects and upgrades
• Write short specs and prototypes to test new ideas
• Write unit tests for the new code that you craft. Improve test coverage, follow development standards and best practices
• Ensure your code is designed with maintainability and scalability in mind
• Nurture the applications and tools, through working with stakeholders and understanding their needs; be service-oriented
• Architect and implement flexible data models that can reflect complex product requirements
• Prototype wireframes and new features with a focus on user experience
• Work with other software teams to improve system communications and performance
• Explore and review new technologies, for improvement opportunities
• Take responsibility for technical decision making within the team, and empower those around you to make strong decisions with a solid foundation; have a strong sense of ownership, autonomy
• Work with other software teams to improve system communications, performance and documentation

Desired Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of Python experience
• 3+ years of Django experience, including Django REST Framework
• Familiarity with Data Analytics and Analysis libraries a plus, for example pandas
• Familiarity with AWS, Docker and CircleCi is beneficial
• Understanding of the full web stack – from server to browser – front- and back-end knowledge
• Programming experience in an open source environment
• Knowledge of web standards; comfortable with front-end design languages such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and related tech
• PostgreSQL familiarity; digging in when addressing performance issues, can wrangle SQL queries
• A strategic thinker with strong technical and analytical skills
• Ability to work both as project lead or project team member in business projects as appropriate
• Ability to plan and report development progress. Ability to manage own workload effectively
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal. Ability to write documentation clearly and concisely, and to communicate well with non-IT personnel
• Interest in emerging technologies; innovative thinker

This role is a hybrid role based out of South Africa, where a minimum number of days as set by the region, is required in the Cape Town office. but before you apply please consider whether this aligns to your location.

What do we offer you?

• Competitive salary commensurate with the role
• Competitive benefits package
• Birthday day off
• Vacation time for you to recharge
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Learning and growth opportunities
• Employee Resource Groups

Applicable based on location
G Adventures is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants.

• Integrate into the team quickly. Deploy often and early
• Take ownership of the product, leading the team through business projects and upgrades
• Write short specs and prototypes to test new ideas
• Write unit tests for the new code that you craft. Improve test coverage, follow development standards and best practices
• Ensure your code is designed with maintainability and scalability in mind
• Nurture the applications and tools, through working with stakeholders and understanding their needs; be service-oriented
• Architect and implement flexible data models that can reflect complex product requirements
• Prototype wireframes and new features with a focus on user experience
• Work with other software teams to improve system communications and performance
• Explore and review new technologies, for improvement opportunities
• Take responsibility for technical decision making within the team, and empower those around you to make strong decisions with a solid foundation; have a strong sense of ownership, autonomy
• Work with other software teams to improve system communications, performance and documentatio