Melbourne | Hybrid
At Rome2Rio, we help millions of travellers navigate the world—comparing flights, trains, buses, ferries, and driving routes to get from A to any B. Behind our simple interface lies complex routing logic, massive datasets, and high-performance infrastructure that makes global travel search possible.
We’re hiring a mid-level full-stack engineer to join either our Platform or Monetisation team in Melbourne. Both teams build and scale critical parts of Rome2Rio’s product—from routing and search infrastructure to revenue features and user conversion. You’ll work end-to-end across backend and frontend systems, shaping how millions of people experience travel planning.
What You’ll Do- Design, build, and optimise backend services that power travel search, routing, and monetisation features.
- Develop clean, scalable APIs and performant user interfaces in C# / .NET Core and TypeScript / React.
- Work across the full stack to deliver features that span backend, frontend, and infrastructure layers.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering in an agile environment to ship high-quality features.
- Contribute to system architecture, performance tuning, observability, and deployment pipelines.
Our Teams
You’ll join one of two engineering teams central to Rome2Rio’s product and growth:
- Platform – The backbone of Rome2Rio: routing engine, search infrastructure, data pipelines, and internal tools.
- Monetisation – How we grow: advertising integrations, pricing and conversion systems, and revenue-driving experiments.
During the interview process, we’ll explore which team best matches your skills and interests.
Our Tech Stack
- Backend: C#, .NET Core 6+, RESTful APIs, server-side rendering
- Frontend: TypeScript, React
- Infrastructure: GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, Sentry, Datadog, cloud deployments
What You Bring
Required
- 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience in a product-focused environment.
- Proficiency in C# / .NET Core for backend development and solid experience with TypeScript / React
- Strong understanding of software fundamentals: architecture, testing, performance, clean code.
- Experience building scalable APIs and user-facing features end-to-end.
- A collaborative mindset and curiosity to work across systems and domains.
- Experience with high-traffic systems, distributed architectures, or performance optimisation.
- Familiarity with observability tools, monitoring, and system resilience.
- Exposure to travel tech, search infrastructure, or data-heavy applications.
💡 Innovate & Impact: Work on a product that millions of travellers rely on.
🌍 Inclusive & Supportive Team: We welcome all backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
📈 Career Growth: Develop your skills with mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and leadership opportunities.
⏳ Flexible Work: Hybrid setup with a great work-life balance.
✈ Explore Fund: Travel perks to help you experience the journeys you help create!
At Rome2Rio, we don’t expect candidates to tick every box—if you’re passionate about what we do and excited about the role, we encourage you to apply!
Top Skills
What We Do
Rome2Rio is a leading travel planning site that helps its millions of users to find, and compare, all the transport options for travel between any two points on the globe.
Users can search any city, town, landmark, attraction or address and Rome2Rio will check thousands of routes, operators and schedules on every mode of transport to help people find the best way to get there. Whether a simple or complex trip, Rome2Rio makes travel planning easier.
Founded in Melbourne, Australia in 2010 and in 2019 was acquired by Berlin-headquartered travel platform, Omio.
Discover your next trip at rome2rio.com.








