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