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
Our team is excited to work at G Adventures because we love tech, we love travel, and we love changing people's lives. We enjoy working in an open source environment with the ability to select the right tools for the job. Adventure travel is fun and there are many challenges for curious software engineers, with space to disrupt the industry standard. You’ll join an environment that is focused on learning and growth. You’ll join a team that coordinates heavily with stakeholders both within Technology and externally, allowing you to experience working with a wide range of people and ideas.
About the Role
You’ll be joining the Tour Systems team within the Technology department at G Adventures. You will help create, and improve applications for our Tour Leaders, so they can focus more on running great trips! That means writing, debugging, and deploying software for our Python and Django based applications. You’ll work on the tools our Tour Leaders, Tour Staff Managers, Local Operations, Finance and Revenue Management teams use to manage our trips including, but not limited to, financials, trip inventory, scheduling, reservations and payroll. You’ll play a key role in building and maintaining a collection of applications that work in cohesion with other systems such as our API, booking engine 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.
This role reports to the Manager, Operational Systems and the 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. Before you apply please consider whether this aligns to your location.
What You'll be Doing
● Collaborate with the team to design and launch new features
● Write unit tests for the new code that you craft. Improve test coverage, follow development standards
● Ensure your code is designed with maintainability and scalability in mind; be familiar with PEP8 standards
● Nurture the applications and tools, through working with stakeholders and understanding their needs and requirements; be service-oriented
● Architect and implement flexible data models that can reflect complex product requirements
● Mentor junior team members; take on leadership 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, perfomance and documentation
Desired Skills and Experience
● 5+ years of Python experience
● 4+ years of Django experience
● 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
What do we offer you?
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Competitive salary commensurate with the role
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Competitive benefits package
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Birthday day off
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Vacation time for you to recharge
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Enhanced Parental Leave
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Learning and growth opportunities
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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.
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What We Do
G Adventures has been a world leader and innovator in sustainable adventure travel since 1990. We invite you to explore a world of tours infused with inspiration and excitement that will take you off the beaten track into the real heart of the destination. Our approach to travel provides small groups and independent travellers the rare opportunity to connect with nature and local cultures.
The choices for travel are vast - from safaris and cultural treks to family vacations and exotic expeditions to places you have never even imagined, there is an adventure for everyone. If you share a lust of life and have the insatiable curiosity to travel and truly experience the world we live in, then join us and embark on a quest for the extraordinary. We are The Great Adventure People - welcome to our world of adventure travel!
