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arrivia Remote (US) Full-time

arrivia specializes in making brands better through the power of travel. The company is a merger of three powerhouse brands, ICE, SOR Technology, and WMPH Vacations, with offices on both coasts of the US and around the world. arrivia is focused on building a customer-first culture, fueled by the best travel experiences for members at every point in their journey. Core values: Stay Curious, Keep it Real, Own it, Win Together.

As an Agentic Software Engineer II, you are a product-minded, customer-focused, full-stack engineer who builds and ships features using AI coding agents as everyday development tools. Working under general supervision with moderate autonomy, you independently deliver well-scoped features from implementation through production, using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot to write better code, faster.

You exercise sound judgment on implementation approach and quality trade-offs, with your decisions directly affecting feature delivery timelines and code maintainability. You consult with senior engineers on architectural decisions and raise risks that require team-level discussion.

This role is remote within the United States. arrivia is currently able to hire in the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the US without sponsorship now or in the future.

• Develop and deliver features and services for the travel platform on a full-stack product development team
• Apply strong proficiency with agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) in daily development workflows to accelerate delivery and improve code quality
• Review and validate AI-generated code for correctness, security, and performance before merging
• Contribute to refactoring and modernizing existing services and architectures using cloud-native design patterns
• Write clean, testable, peer-reviewed, and well-optimized code, whether authored manually or collaboratively with AI agents
• Contribute to improving development and operations of an increasingly distributed architecture
• Advocate for quality, durability, and technical debt reduction with Product Owners, Engineering Managers, and Product Designers
• Safeguard the privacy, security, and trust of members' sensitive data in partnership with Risk and Security teams
• Contribute to meeting backend and system SLOs as part of the broader engineering team

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 3 to 5 years of full-stack development experience building web applications and services
• 1+ year of hands-on experience using AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) in professional development workflows
• Proficiency in two or more of TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or C#/.NET
• Experience with a modern frontend framework: React, Next.js, Vue, or Angular
• Experience building and deploying applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Awareness of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it enables AI agents to interact with external tools and data sources
• Working knowledge of Azure AI Foundry, RAG, LangChain, and graph-based data technologies (GraphRAG, GraphDB) is a plus
• Familiarity with real-time streaming or distributed messaging platforms such as Redis, Kafka, or RabbitMQ
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines
• Agile software delivery experience

The estimated salary range for this role is $119,000-$188,000 annually, based on Provn's market benchmarking. Benefits include access to arrivia's private travel marketplace with deeply discounted rates on cruises, resorts, and hotels, robust medical, dental, and vision insurance, and 401(k) with company matching, inside a remote-friendly culture that spans US and international time zones.

To apply for this role, you must create an account on provn.co and submit all required application artifacts. Resume only applications may be considered, but candidates who complete a full application are reviewed with priority.

How hiring works here: Referrals are king for getting an interview. But what if you don't have a referral? Applying with Provn is designed to help you get more interviews. Instead of sending a cold resume into an ATS and waiting, you will complete a challenge built by arrivia and submit a short video walking through your approach. No time limit. No timers. No restrictions on AI usage. Show how you build with AI.

• You show how you actually build and ship with coding agents, instead of hoping a resume communicates your skill clearly.
• Your judgment with AI becomes visible, which no "proficient with AI coding agents" resume bullet can prove.
• One challenge puts you in front of the engineering team, scored on the work. Priority without a referral!

The hiring manager reviews every completed submission, and strongest candidates go straight to an interview round. No referral needed. Performance over pedigree. Proof over polish.