Want to be one of the first 20 employees in a company already nationally praised for technological innovations by as the likes of the Wall Street Journal, CNN and Joel on Software? TripIt was founded by 2nd generation start-up leaders who know how the game is played and, more importantly, how it's won. This is an opportunity to be on the ground floor of a well-funded, privately-held company that valuescreative, collaborative thinking.

Description

Want to create an application like no other? Our team of highly experienced and super creative engineers has built an application unlike any that have come before it in the online travel space. It is now time for TripIt to take it to the next level, and to do that we need you. You are the type of engineer that is driven by the challenge of solving unique and often hard, technical problems in a compressed timeframe while keeping in mind the requirements of the business and the user experience. You will report directly to the co-founder and VP of Engineering and work alongside TripIt's Staff Engineer.

Responsibilities

This position will have you working on TripIt's core patent pending email parsing technology.  You must be passionate about developing new technologies and solving difficult technical problems, have a good sense of product design, have solid development habits (e.g. unit testing, technical design documentation, etc...), solid experience with backend web  technologies, and are not afraid to dive into new and unfamiliar technologies.

Required Skills / Experience

• At least 3 years of prior software development experience
• Strong understanding of web and web-related technologies
• Server-side application development in Python, PHP, Perl, or Ruby
• Strong command of pattern matching technologies such as regular expressions
• Familiarity with XML and XML Schema
• Solid development habits and practices
• Natural problem-solver and troubleshooter
• Comfortable working in a GNU Linux/Unix environment
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

About TripIt

We combine innovative new technologies with a fun product travel. TripIt is a personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all your travel plans -- no matter where you booked. Just forward travel confirmation emails to plans <AT> tripit.com to...

• Quickly organize your vacation and business travel - no matter where you book
• Automatically get itineraries with all your plans, weather, maps, restaurants and more
• Easily access your itineraries via paper, email, personal calendar or mobile device
• Share your trips and see where you overlap with friends and colleagues

We offer the fun, casual atmosphere of a start-up with large company benefits in a hip, San Francisco location. We are venture backed and are moving quickly to tackle the largest e-commerce category on the Internet -- travel. If you are a high  impact person who wants to have real influence on the future of the company and the travel industry, we want to talk to you.

TripIt is located in San Francisco, CA.