Founding Technical Architect

About Analogue

Analogue is an experiential travel platform. Our north star is to enable exceptional travel by combining human-led, AI-powered curation and a vetted global network of high-taste locals and boutique operators to deliver more immersive, on-the-ground experiences for travelers.

We've raised from top-tier investors and built the first version of the product. We're hiring the founding technical team now to accelerate our development and time-to-market.

In a world that's becoming increasingly algorithmic, we're amplifying the human touch.

Team background

Analogue is founded by Bjarni, who grew up in the Faroe Islands and has lived this industry from nearly every angle. He co-founded REMÓT Travel, the leading luxury travel company in the Faroe Islands, featured in the Financial Times and Condé Nast Traveler. Before Analogue he was at Bain & Company in New York and on the early teams at Bob W, a European hospitality startup, and Razor Group, a Berlin-based unicorn. He's worked as a chef and bartender, backpacked through 40+ countries, and cares deeply about the experiential side of travel.

About the role

Designing and booking a curated trip today means operating across 100+ fragmented, legacy systems that share almost no context with each other: hotels, GDS systems, airlines, car rental, cruise lines, villas operators, niche experience platforms, etc. On top of that, much of the best travel inventory doesn't live in any centralized system at all, but moves through email and PDFs from boutique operators around the world.

Then there's the other half of the picture: the client. Who they are, where they've been, what they loved and what they didn't + every email, form, and conversation that tells us how to design their next trip. Today that context is scattered, too.

Bringing the supply side and the client side into one coherent system is what makes genuine personalization and real agentic workflows possible.

This role owns that architecture. You'll design the back-end, the data models, and the integration layer that the entire company runs on, capturing both the world's travel supply and the full context of every client, and you'll set the technical foundation that lets us run reliable agentic workflows on top of it.

It's deep, foundational work that has to be rock solid, and it's the part of Analogue that everything else depends on. For the right person, this is the most important engineering seat in the company, and the architecture and technical direction are yours to shape. 

What you'll own

• Supply integrations: Build and maintain integrations across hotels, GDS systems, airlines, car rental, cruise, and experiences.
• Real-world third-party systems with all the scars that come with them: rate limits, retries, idempotency, webhook verification, partial failures, and inconsistent data shapes.
• The system of record: Turn inventory that lives in email, PDFs, and people's heads into structured, queryable data.
• Internal knowledge graph: Design the internal knowledge graph that becomes the single source of truth Analogue plans against.
• Core architecture: Own the back-end architecture, data models, and the foundations (queuing, reliability, observability) that let agentic workflows run on top of live supply.
• Technical direction: Make pragmatic architecture decisions, own the technical roadmap for the infrastructure side, and set the patterns the next engineers will inherit.
• Building a team: As we grow, help shape and recruit the engineers who build alongside you.

Who we're looking for

You have roughly 3 to 7 years of engineering experience and you've built real infrastructure, not just maintained it. You've shipped back-end and integration systems end to end: architected, built, deployed, and kept them running in production. You're at home in high-ambiguity, early-stage environments, and you can turn a vague product need into a clear technical path and move quickly on it.

Bonus if you've shipped production features in one or more of these areas:

• Integration-heavy platforms: You've built systems that integrate with messy third-party APIs, external partners, or fragmented real-world data at production scale.
• Marketplace or high-trust products: You've worked on products where coordination, financial transactions, and reliability were critical.
• Travel infrastructure or integrations: You've worked at a travel infrastructure company (think Spotnana, Duffel, Navan, TravelPerk, Expedia, and the like). You've seen how this plumbing is supposed to work, and you understand where it usually breaks.

Stack

You don't need our exact stack, but you should be comfortable ramping quickly across:

• Product engineering: TypeScript, React/Next.js, modern serverless or reactive backends, and the cloud surface around them.
• Applied AI: the major model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), agent orchestration, evals, retrieval, embeddings, tool use, multimodal APIs.
• Integrations: working against third-party APIs and the realities of messy external data.
• Production: shipping features that are reliable, observable, and hold up at scale.

The person who will thrive here

You're pragmatic, and you care about correctness and reliability, because in this domain a failed booking is a ruined trip. You like the deep, foundational work, and you take quiet pride in building the layer that makes everything above it possible. You can operate under ambiguity and take ownership over your work.

You're excited about experiential travel itself: taste, place, and the texture of a great trip. You want to build technology that makes every trip truly an N of 1.

Details

• Location: NYC, in-office*
• Type: Full-time
• Reports to: Founder/CEO
• Compensation: $175K to $275K base, depending on experience
• Equity: Meaningful founding-team equity, negotiable per person. You'd be one of our first hires, and the equity reflects it. Happy to walk through it on a call.
• Visa sponsorship: Yes, for the right person. The founder has been through the immigration process himself.
• Perks: A $5K annual leisure travel stipend (go anywhere, use it or lose it), unlimited AI tooling, and the usual benefits (health, dental, vision, flexible PTO).

*We are building this together, sitting alongside the travel designers we serve. We move faster, decide better, and frankly have more fun that way. Relocation considered for an exceptional fit.

Our process

Intro conversation, a technical discussion on how you think, a paid take-home based on actual Analogue-style problems, and a final onsite in NYC.

How to apply

Send your resume, or a link to your LinkedIn or GitHub, plus a short note on the most technically difficult system, integration, or product you've shipped.

Email: bjarni@travelanalogue.com