Java backend and full-stack engineers. Searching thousands of hotels and flights, holding a price and confirming a booking are high-volume backend services. Java engineers build them, most of all at Agoda, the online travel groups, like Expedia Group and Priceline, and the reservation-system companies, like Amadeus and Sabre. They are by far the most common opening, more than twice their usual weight. The postings often require more than Java, with Go, Kotlin or C#, and Kafka and RabbitMQ for the flow of events.

Frontend engineers. A booking page has to load in a moment and work on any phone, or the traveller goes elsewhere. Frontend engineers build these pages in React, Vue and TypeScript, with server-side rendering and close attention to page speed. They are more than twice as common here as at a typical product company, mostly at Agoda and the reservation-system companies.

Cloud and DevOps engineers. Some of the big travel sites run large parts of their platform in their own data centres as well as in public clouds. Cloud engineers run both, in Python, Go and Java with Kubernetes, and many postings require private-cloud and server-automation tools such as OpenStack, Puppet and Ansible. They hold about their usual place, and their jobs stay open longer than most here.

GenAI engineers. Trip planning and customer service are natural work for AI assistants. GenAI engineers build them at Agoda, Expedia Group and Priceline's Mumbai centre, in Python with LangChain, the OpenAI API and Claude, and many postings require responsible-AI skills. GenAI holds about its usual place here, and it grew through 2026.

Generalist software engineers. Agoda and Sabre, a reservation-system company, hire many engineers who work across Java, Python and C# rather than in one stack. They are more than twice as common here as elsewhere.

Backend engineers not tied to one language. Expedia Group and the corporate-travel and travel-money start-ups, like Spotnana, ITILITE and Scapia, hire backend engineers whose postings name the cloud and the service rather than a language. They too are more than twice as common here as elsewhere.

Test engineers. Testers are less common here than at most product companies, mostly at Priceline's Mumbai centre and Headout, an experiences marketplace, and they take juniors more readily than any other large role here.

Generalist software engineers in Travel tech. The booking sites, like Agoda and Priceline, and Amadeus, a reservation-system company, hire under a plain software engineer title, mostly in Kotlin and Java.

Also present. A small group of fintech software engineers working on payments at the booking sites and Airbnb, .NET engineers at the hotel-software companies, like Cendyn and RateGain, far below their usual weight, mobile engineers at the Indian travel apps, like ixigo and MakeMyTrip, and Headout, data engineers, platform developers, and Node and Go engineers.

Rare here. SAP and firmware work barely appear.