About Us
We are a 26-year established Destination Management Company (DMC) operating under the Amstar DMC brand, the official destination services and tour operator brand of Hyatt Corporation.
We support major North American travel brands including:
Apple Vacations
American Express Vacations
CheapCaribbean
Expedia
Hyatt
And more than 12 additional travel brands
Our platform supports daily operational workflows for:
Transfer bookings (airport ↔ hotel)
Tours and excursions
Vacation-related services
Automated dispatch and resource allocation
Supplier coordination
Operational handling
Financials (invoicing, payments, credit card payments etc)
The system automatically assigns drivers, vehicles, and partner companies required for service delivery.
This is a real-time operational system used daily in production.
Current System (Legacy Overview)
We operate a 24-year-old Perl-based monolithic application.
Codebase
~250,000 lines total
~100K core Perl code
63K template toolkit
43K configuration system
17K Perl scripts
25K web framework
Single monolithic architecture
Single MySQL database
178 tables
10 background jobs
ORM used since inception (limited direct SQL usage)
Integrations
Google Drive
Gmail
FlightStats
Stripe (payments)
Additional workflows:
Email parsers reading Excel attachments
CSV generation & ingestion via Google Drive
Google Forms integrations
Blocking page flows in current UI
Infrastructure
Hosted on DigitalOcean VPS
Ubuntu 22.10 (scheduled for upgrade)
Dev / Stage / Production environments
Python services are Dockerized
Perl system is not containerized
Partial CI/CD automation (Python only)
Infrastructure managed by current Senior Developer
Automated database backups + monthly restore testing
No replication currently
Downtime tolerance: up to 8 hours (business continuity procedures exist)
Migration Status & Goal
We are executing a phased migration from Perl to Python.
~20% already migrated
Target: >80% migrated within 12 months
End goal: full replacement of legacy Perl system
Current modernization streams:
Migrate email & WhatsApp handling to AI-driven solution
Rebuild core order management functionality in Python (FastAPI)
Develop new UI for drivers and hostesses
Gradually decouple monolith into modular services
This is a controlled, staged production migration.
Team Structure
1 senior developer (20 years on system)
1 QA
No dedicated DevOps
Requirements defined by business + management + senior dev
Production incidents handled by senior dev
Very stable production system (minimal incidents in last 12 months)
This role will significantly strengthen and eventually take ownership of the modernization effort.
Required Technical Skills (Must Have)
Strong Python experience
Proven production experience with FastAPI
Strong MySQL knowledge (schema, indexing, query optimization)
Comfortable in Linux (Ubuntu) CLI
Experience with pytest
GitHub + GitHub Actions CI/CD
Experience deploying behind Nginx or Apache
Docker experience
Professional use of VS Code or similar
Understanding of API design and system decoupling
Secondary (Nice to Have)
Ability to read Perl code
Experience modernizing monolithic systems
Experience with Google APIs
Experience with Stripe or payment systems
Basic React experience (for internal admin tools)
React is not a primary frontend role requirement.
Work Environment
Fully remote
Daily scrum (max 30 minutes)
Structured weekly planning
Flexible working hours
24/7 operational business context
This is not a constant on-call role, but production responsibility is real. Emergency incidents are rare but must be handled professionally.
We value:
Transparency
Ownership
Integrity
Clear documentation
Structured decision-making
What You Will Own
Build production-ready FastAPI services
Define migration architecture
Improve CI/CD maturity
Strengthen infrastructure reliability
Design rollback-safe deployments
Document architectural decisions
Gradually replace the legacy monolith
This is a high-autonomy, high-responsibility role.
