Full Stack Engineer

About Pavilia 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. The Role 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. What you’ll do • 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 Resend, auth via Auth0) • 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 Our stack • Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, Framer Motion • Backend: Next.js API routes, Node, Drizzle ORM, PostgreSQL, Zod, pg-boss • Integrations: Anthropic (Claude) SDK, Stripe, Duffel, Auth0, Twilio, Resend • Quality & infra: Vitest, Playwright, ESLint, Prettier, Sentry, Datadog, PostHog, Vercel What we’re looking for • 2–5 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping web applications • Strong across the stack, with real depth in TypeScript 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 Nice to have • Experience integrating payments (Stripe) or third-party APIs at production quality • Experience with LLM/AI product features • Startup or founding-team experience What you’ll get • 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 How to apply Apply through LinkedIn, or send your resume, GitHub/portfolio link, and a short note on something you’ve shipped to careers@pavilia.ai