Tech Lead

Who We Are

Accommodations Plus International (API) is a technology and services company focused on driving innovation across the travel and transportation industry. We partner with organizations in the airline, cruise, and rail sectors to deliver solutions that improve layover operations, enhance customer experience, and support long-term growth.

Our mission is to make layovers simpler and more efficient for crew members—and we bring that to life through deep industry expertise and a practical, results-driven approach.

Today, API’s platform powers over 18 million crew room nights each year for 100+ airlines and travel operators worldwide. Our Global Reach ensures that airline crews are rested, transported, and connected so global aviation runs on time.

At API, we’re building a culture rooted in succeeding and thriving together. It’s a place where people are encouraged to take ownership, develop their skills, and contribute to work that matters.

If you’re looking to grow your career in a company that values steady progress, real impact, and long-term development, we’d like to meet you!

Position Summary

We’re hiring a Full Stack Team Lead with software architecture experience to provide both hands-on full stack development and strategic architectural direction for our Java development initiatives. This is a senior, hands-on role: you’ll help set technical direction and architect solutions while staying technically involved yourself. You’ll also bring strong, practical AI skills, using AI coding assistants and agents every day to design, build, test, and ship, and showing the team how to do the same. It’s a highly impactful position, ideal for a seasoned Solutions Architect who thrives in fast-paced, agile environments and enjoys helping others.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Serve as the team lead across architecture, development, and DevOps functions.
• Work hands-on with AI coding assistants and agents in your daily development, from design and implementation through testing, code review, and troubleshooting, and lead by example in how to use them well.
• Own the architecture, design, and scalability of enterprise-grade applications.
• Help drive best practices in coding, test automation, API design, and performance tuning.
• Translate business requirements into secure, reliable, and scalable solutions.
• Oversee the integration of RESTful and SOAP-based services with modern authentication (SAML, PingFederate).
• Guide API documentation and testing workflows using Postman and Swagger.
• Carry out integration and unit testing of the functionality you develop, and troubleshoot and resolve issues across development, staging, and production.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless system interoperability and delivery.
• Share practical AI workflows, prompts, and patterns with the team so effective AI-assisted development becomes part of how everyone works.

What success looks like

• Architecture: enterprise-grade applications are well designed, secure, and reliable
• Engineering standards: best practices in coding, testing, API design, and performance tuning are in place and followed across the team
• Integration: RESTful and SOAP-based services integrate cleanly with modern authentication (SAML, PingFederate)
• API quality: APIs are consistently documented and tested through Postman and Swagger workflows
• AI-assisted development: you use AI coding tools and agents effectively in your own work, and the team adopts the workflows you demonstrate
• Stability: issues across development, staging, and production environments are identified and resolved
• Delivery: systems interoperate seamlessly and the team delivers in step with cross-functional partners

Required Skills, Education, and Experience

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• At least 7 years of experience in enterprise application development and architecture
• Strong, hands-on use of AI in software development: coding assistants and agents (e.g. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor), agentic workflows, and AI-assisted testing, debugging, and code review. You should be able to demonstrate this live, with real examples of how it has made you more effective
• Good judgment on AI output: knowing when to trust it, how to verify it, and how to keep code quality, security, and maintainability high
• Expert-level proficiency in Java and the Spring / Spring Boot framework
• Strong experience with Angular, React.js, JavaScript, and Node.js
• Experience with REST, JSON, GraphQL, and SOAP integrations
• Proficiency in AWS, including EC2, S3, SNS, Secrets Manager, and Cognito
• Deep understanding of databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DynamoDB
• Familiarity with DevOps tools and automation frameworks, including Ansible
• Experience with system authentication protocols such as SAML and PingFederate
• Skilled in API design and testing (Postman, Swagger) and testing automation, including automated unit and integration tests
• Experience with Git, CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions), and containerization (Docker is a plus)
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and teamwork skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in security-focused design and identity management.
• A background in enterprise reporting and legacy-to-modern tech migrations.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and Datadog.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Experience building custom AI tooling for your team (agents, integrations, or reusable prompts).
• Using AI to accelerate legacy-to-modern migrations.
• AWS certifications (Developer, Solutions Architect).

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Standard days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, during normal core business hours. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.

Compensation

The good faith compensation range for this role is $130,000-$140,000 CAD annually. Compensation will be commensurate with experience. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

Other Duties

Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time according to business needs.

The performance of additional responsibilities if you are designated as a Data Protection Champion (DPC), Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) or Information Assurance Accounting Officer (IAAO).

Work Environment

This position operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

AAP/EEO Statement

Accommodations Plus International is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, arrest record, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment.

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