Full Stack Engineer

Pavilia is the AI travel companion for study-abroad students. Just tell Pavilia what you’re looking for, and our AI builds a complete, bookable itinerary with transportation, hotels, tickets, and restaurants booked in one go, for solo travelers and groups alike. We’re an early-stage startup moving fast toward our first paying customers, and we’re building the core team that gets us there.

We’re hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer to own features end-to-end across our product, from the interfaces students book with to the APIs and AI systems behind them. You’ll join a small, fast-moving team where your work ships quickly and has real, visible impact on the product and the business. This is a hands-on building role for someone who wants ownership, not a cog in a large machine.

• Design, build, and ship full-stack features across the web app, from UI to API to database
• Integrate and harden third‑party services (flights via Duffel, payments via Stripe, messaging via Twilio and)
• Extend our AI itinerary engine, which uses the Anthropic (Claude) SDK to turn prompts into bookable trips
• Model data with Drizzle ORM and PostgreSQL, and keep the system reliable, observable, and fast
• Write tests, review code, and help set engineering standards as we scale
• Collaborate closely with the founders on product direction and priorities

• Frontend:
  React, Next.js, Type Script, Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, Framer Motion
• Quality & infra:
  Vitest, Playwright, ESLint, Prettier, Sentry, Datadog, Post Hog, Vercel

• 2–5 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping web applications
• Strong across the stack, with real depth in Type Script and a modern framework (React/Next.js preferred)
• Solid experience with relational databases, SQL, and building/consuming REST APIs
• Comfortable owning features end-to-end and making pragmatic decisions in an early-stage environment
• Strong communication and a bias toward shipping
• Excited about travel, AI, or consumer products
• Strong experience with Claude

• Experience integrating payments (Stripe) or third‑party APIs at production quality
• Experience with LLM/AI product features
• Startup or founding‑team experience

• Equity compensation (stock options), with percentage based on experience and further discussion
• High ownership and real impact as an early engineer on the team
• A modern, well‑tooled codebase and a fast path from idea to production
• Direct collaboration with the founders on product and technical direction
• A hybrid schedule that balances focused remote work with in‑person collaboration

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