
Duffel · London
Travel Support Engineer (Backend) *Fullstack would be advantageous. 📍 London (Hybrid - 2 days onsite) 🕒 Permanent | Visa sponsorship available | Start ASA...
Travel Support Engineer (Backend)
📍 London (Hybrid - 2 days onsite)
🕒 Permanent | Visa sponsorship available | Start ASAP
💼 Experience: Mid–Senior
Make travel support effortless with your skills
At Duffel, travel is something we all care about. We know how frustrating it can be for travelers when systems don’t work. That’s why we’re building smarter, faster, and more human support tools.
In this role, you won’t just write code. You’ll shape the first LLM-powered assistant in our support product. You’ll automate repetitive work, free up our Travel Ops team to focus on the tricky problems, and create tools that travelers and colleagues will actually enjoy using. Every line of code you write will have real impact.
Bonus if you have: SaaS/B2B experience, cloud platforms (GCP, Vertex AI), or experience with operational or support tooling
Why you’ll enjoy working here
At Duffel, you’ll join a team that cares about doing meaningful work and having fun while doing it:
💰 Competitive salary and potential equity
🏝️ Work From Anywhere – choose where you work, locally or internationally
🛩️ Duffel Travel Allowance – experience the product you help build
🍼 Generous parental leave
🧘 Sabbatical programme – 3 months full pay to recharge
🌎 Visa sponsorship available
🪩 Shoreditch office plus regular team socials
Here, you’ll make an impact from day one, building tools that millions of travelers rely on. You’ll shape the future of AI-powered support, collaborate with engineers, designers, and product teams who actually care about users, and see the difference your work makes every single day.
If you care about people, usability, and tech that just works, this is the role for you.
YOUR MISSION We are offering an exciting opportunity to join MeiraGTx Ltd as a Technical Services Engineer Apprentice within our Technical Services team. This is a structured "earn while you learn" programme combining hands-on experience supporting validation and process engineering activities with a fully funded degree-level apprenticeship. Working within the Validation team, you will support GMP manufacturing operations by assisting with equipment, system, and process validation activities that ensure products are manufactured safely, consistently, and in compliance with regulatory requirements. This role provides broad exposure to engineering, manufacturing, quality, and validation functions while developing the technical and professional skills required for a long-term career in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. This is a Science Industry Process Plant Engineer (SIPPE) Level 6 Apprenticeship, combining workplace learning with academic study. JOB DESCRIPTION What You'll Be Doing * Supporting qualification and validation activities for equipment, systems, and manufacturing processes. * Assisting in the preparation, review, and execution of validation documentation. * Supporting deviation investigations, CAPAs, and change control activities. * Assisting with requalification and periodic review activities to maintain the validated state. * Supporting Computer System Validation (CSV) and GAMP-related activities where required. * Ensuring compliance with GMP, Data Integrity, and Good Documentation Practice (GDP) requirements. What You'll Learn * Equipment, system, and process validation within a regulated GMP environment. * Pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturing processes. * Regulatory requirements including GMP, Data Integrity, and ICH guidelines. * Quality systems including deviations, CAPAs, change controls, and risk assessments. What We Offer Development * Fully funded apprenticeship (no tuition fees). * Dedicated study time during working hours. * Mentoring and structured career development. * Exposure to industry-leading validation and manufacturing practices. Benefits * 25 days holiday plus bank holidays. * Pension scheme. * Healthcare and wellbeing support. * Travel support (e.g. season ticket loan). * Employee benefits and discount platform. About You We are looking for motivated individuals with a passion for engineering, science, and problem-solving who are eager to develop a career within a highly regulated biotechnology manufacturing environment. Essential Requirements * Minimum of 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) including Maths, English, and a Science subject. * 96 UCAS points including A-levels (or equivalent) in a STEM-related subject. (e.g., Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, or Physics), or completion of a relevant Level 3 qualification (e.g., BTEC in Engineering or Applied Science). * Eligible to undertake the Science Industry Process Plant Engineer (SIPPE) Level 6 Apprenticeship. * Interest in engineering, manufacturing, and process improvement. * Strong communication, organisation, and time management skills. * High attention to detail and ability to follow technical procedures accurately. * Basic IT proficiency, including Microsoft Office. * Team-oriented with the ability to collaborate across functions. * Proactive, motivated, and committed to continuous learning and development. WHY US? This programme provides a direct pathway into a technical engineering career within the biotechnology sector. You'll gain practical experience supporting critical manufacturing and validation activities while studying towards a recognised degree-level qualification. From day one, you'll work alongside experienced professionals, develop valuable technical skills, and contribute to the delivery of life-changing therapies in a highly innovative and collaborative environment.
OUR MISSION At Ophelos, we believe in a different way to deal with debt. One that puts empathy and understanding front and centre, approaching our customers as individuals — no matter what they’re going through. For too long, people in debt have borne the brunt of poor industry practices. Intimidating tactics, time-consuming customer service and a one-size-fits-all approach that overlooks the reasons anyone can fall into debt in the first place. Meanwhile, businesses suffer too. Poor customer experience translates to poor customer satisfaction, high churn rates, bad brand reputation and ultimately missed opportunities. That’s why we’re taking a radically different approach. Pioneering an industry-first AI-native collections platform, we build products that help individuals clear their debts in a way that suits them, whilst providing businesses with an improved customer experience and game-changing insights into their customer base. Since our launch in 2021, we’ve worked with some of the UK’s leading companies, including Octopus, Scottish Power and Philips — helping millions of people move toward a more stable, debt-free future. In 2023, we were acquired by Intrum, Europe’s biggest credit management service and have begun the next phase in our growth — expansion into 17 European markets over the next two years. FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER London-based with European travel (UK, France, Portugal and beyond) ABOUT THE ROLE Ophelos is at a pivotal moment. We've built a market-leading, AI-first debt resolution platform — and now we're deploying it at scale across Intrum's European business. As our Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll lead that effort. Intrum, our parent company and one of Europe's largest credit management businesses, manages debt on behalf of a wide range of merchant clients — retailers, telcos, financial institutions, and more — across multiple European markets. Your job is to onboard those clients onto the Ophelos platform: understanding their data, their business logic, their customer portfolios, and their contractual and regulatory context, and making sure Ophelos works correctly for each of them. Every client is different. They come with different data formats and quality standards, different definitions of what a debt case looks like, different regulatory obligations depending on their sector and market, and different expectations of how their customers should be treated. Your job is to absorb all of that, map it clearly, and translate it into a solution that works — at scale, across many clients, across multiple countries. This role sits at the intersection of solution architecture, technical consulting, and product partnership. You'll spend as much time in discovery conversations and design workshops as you will in configuration files and integration specs. You'll need to be equally credible with a compliance lead in Paris, a data engineer in Lisbon, and a product manager in London. WHAT YOU'LL DO Onboard merchant clients onto Ophelos Each client Intrum brings to Ophelos has its own data structures, business rules, and portfolio characteristics. You'll lead the technical onboarding — understanding their data, designing the ingestion and mapping layer, and ensuring Ophelos represents their cases accurately and operates correctly on their behalf. Navigate localisation and regulatory complexity Operating across European markets means dealing with materially different regulatory frameworks, debt collection norms, and consumer protection requirements — which vary by country, and sometimes by client sector. You'll develop deep fluency in what those differences mean technically, and design the configuration and solution patterns that allow Ophelos to serve each context correctly. Design solutions, not just integrations You'll translate complex, sometimes ambiguous client requirements into clean solution designs — mapping existing data structures, business logic, and operational processes to Ophelos's platform. This isn't just about getting data from A to B; it's about understanding the business intent behind every field and flow, and making sure nothing gets lost in translation. Own the data ingestion layer A significant part of this role involves designing and owning how each client's data arrives into Ophelos — in the right shape, with the right validation, from the right sources. You'll work across varying data formats, system conventions, and quality standards, and build patterns that make future onboarding progressively more efficient. Close the feedback loop You're Ophelos's eyes and ears in the field. When you encounter a recurring client need, a gap in our product, a bug that only surfaces in a specific market context, or a feature that would unlock onboarding for a whole segment of clients — you bring that back clearly and systematically. You'll log issues, articulate feature requests with context and business case, and act as a structured conduit between the real world and Ophelos's product and engineering teams. Build the onboarding playbook Document what you learn. Build reusable patterns, data mapping frameworks, and localisation guides that make each subsequent client onboarding faster and more predictable than the last. Use LLM tooling as a force multiplier Like all Ophelos engineers, you'll work in an AI-first way — using Claude Code, Codex, and OpenSpec to accelerate integration work, draft specs, and explore solutions faster than traditional approaches allow. THE OPHELOS PLATFORM You'll need to develop deep familiarity with our stack — not necessarily to build core features, but to understand its capabilities, constraints, and integration surface thoroughly: * Languages: TypeScript, Python, Ruby * Backend frameworks: FastAPI, Ruby on Rails * Data: PostgreSQL (via PlanetScale), Databricks * Workflow orchestration: Temporal * Financial ledger: TigerBeetle * Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes * Observability: Datadog * LLM tooling: Claude Code, OpenSpec, Codex ABOUT YOU You're a systems thinker with technical depth and strong commercial instincts. You've probably worked in fintech, financial services, or enterprise SaaS — in a role that required you to get inside a client's world, understand it thoroughly, and design solutions that actually fit. You might come from a solutions engineering, implementation consulting, or technical architecture background. What matters is that you're equally comfortable shaping a solution design and getting hands-on with the data or configuration to make it real. You're energised by variety — different clients, different markets, different problems — rather than unsettled by it. You'll likely have: * Experience in a solutions architect, forward-deployed engineer, technical consultant, or implementation lead role — ideally at a fintech, payments, or financial services company * Strong systems thinking: you naturally map business processes, data flows, and client-specific logic into coherent technical designs * Comfort with data — understanding schemas, transformation logic, validation rules, and ingestion pipelines at a practical level * Experience navigating regulatory or compliance requirements that vary across markets, sectors, or client types * The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders, and business context clearly to engineers * A structured approach to discovery: you ask good questions, document rigorously, and turn ambiguity into clarity * Willingness to travel regularly across Europe (primarily UK, France, and Portugal, with further markets to follow) Bonus points for: * Background in debt management, credit, collections, or payments — understanding the domain accelerates everything * Working knowledge of French * Experience onboarding multiple enterprise clients with divergent data models or business logic onto a shared platform * A track record of feeding structured product feedback from deployments back into a product organisation WHY THIS ROLE This is a rare opportunity to operate at the centre of a major European expansion — with real complexity, real stakes, and direct influence over how a genuinely impactful product gets adopted across a continent. You'll develop a breadth of domain knowledge, technical context, and stakeholder experience that's hard to find anywhere else. And you'll be helping Ophelos do what it exists to do: support households and businesses in breaking the cycle of problem debt. WORKING ARRANGEMENTS Based in London, with regular travel across Europe — primarily UK, France, and Portugal, with other markets to follow as the rollout expands. Ophelos operates on a hybrid model with three days per week in our office near Liverpool Street; during active client onboardings, on-site presence will be required. Ophelos is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. ABOUT OUR TEAM Ophelos launched in June of 2021, backed by investors such as AlbionVC, Connect Ventures and Fly Ventures. In 2023, we were acquired by Intrum, Europe’s biggest credit management service. Our growing team has team helped build some of the world’s most successful businesses, including the likes of Monzo, Google, Oracle, ASAPP, IBM and more — in addition to pioneering innovative products, sitting at the intersection of enterprise, financial technology, artificial intelligence and academia, working with institutions such as Oxford University, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Hong Kong. OUR VALUES Supporting customers and businesses to improve their financial health is a long-term mission. Our company values act as our north star, steering our every move as an organisation and are the backbone of our unique company culture. Our values and culture allow us to stay true to our larger purpose, even as we continue to grow at a rapid pace. Customers and Clients first – We exist to help real people move through debt and to get clients paid back. This commitment drives how we design products, deliver services, and interact with customers and clients daily. Dream big – We have ambition and drive to succeed - we’re not just raising the bar, we’re confidently asserting ourselves as the benchmark. Get it done – We’re decisive and embrace a sense of urgency; we don’t let opportunities get away from us. We’d rather act quickly and take informed risks, iterating and learning as we go. Win as one - We work as one team, supporting each other and aiming for shared goals. At Ophelos, the team isn’t just individual departments - it’s all of us together. We challenge and support each other because we care about everyone’s growth and success. Ophelos is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to all team members. We are building an environment where every Ophelos team member can thrive, feel a sense of belonging, and do the best work of their careers. We value diversity and recruit, hire, and promote individuals solely based on talent, qualifications, competence, and merit. We evaluate candidates without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other protected characteristics as required by law and as a matter of our company values. GDPR NOTICE When you apply to a job on this site, the personal data contained in your application will be collected by Ophelos ("Controller"), located at 1 Finsbury Ave, London EC2M 2PF, and can be contacted by emailing support@ophelos.com. Controller's data protection contact is Kofi Barnes, who can be contacted at support@ophelos.com. This notice explains how we process your personal data throughout our recruitment process, including at the interview stage described below. Applying for a role with Ophelos is subject to the practices described in this notice — it is not a separate agreement you sign, but a description of how the recruitment process works. You won't be given a separate notice at each stage; Ophelos retains discretion over which of the described tools and processes are applied to any given application or interview, within the purposes set out below. This discretion does not extend to introducing automated decision-making without human review — that is addressed separately below. What we use your data for Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Controller's recruitment-related activities, which include reviewing applications, setting up and conducting interviews and tests, evaluating and assessing the results, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring process. As part of this process, we use software tools — including AI-assisted tools — to help us organise, screen, and evaluate applications and interviews. This includes: * Automated analysis of CVs and application materials to identify relevant skills and experience * Automated analysis of interview transcripts to help summarise and score responses (see "Interviews" below) * Generating scores, summaries, or insights to assist our recruiters Currently, these AI-assisted outputs are advisory only. A human recruiter reviews every application and every AI-generated score or summary before any decision is made, and no application is filtered out or rejected by an automated process alone. We may in future use automated tools to make, or take part in making, decisions about your application without human review at that stage, if we do so in a way that complies with applicable law at the time — for example, by obtaining your explicit consent, or where the decision is necessary for entering into a contract with you, and in either case only with appropriate safeguards, including your ability to request human review of, and to contest, that decision. If we intend to introduce this, we will update this notice and separately inform you before it applies to your application — this notice alone does not authorise it. We also use historical, aggregated recruitment data to improve our processes generally — for example, to better understand which factors tend to be associated with successful hires. Where this involves data from past applicants, it is anonymised or aggregated before use, and is not used to make any decision about a specific individual. Such processing is legally permissible under Art. 6(1)(f) UK/EU GDPR as necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by the Controller: the solicitation, evaluation, and selection of applicants for employment, and the improvement of Controller's recruitment processes. Interviews — recording and transcription If you're invited to an interview conducted by video or phone call, it will be recorded and automatically transcribed as a standard part of our recruitment process — this is described in this notice, which applies to your application as explained above. Where an interview is recorded: * The interview will be recorded and transcribed using our video-calling provider (Google Meet). * The transcript will be processed by AI tools (including models provided by Anthropic and Google) to help generate a summary and structured notes for the interview panel, and to help train and improve our own recruitment tools as described above. * The recording, transcript, and any AI-generated summary will be stored on Ophelos's systems (hosted via Cloudflare) and in Greenhouse. * A human interviewer/panel always reviews the AI-generated summary as part of forming their own assessment — it is a starting point for the panel, not a decision in itself. Recording and transcribing interviews in this way is necessary for us to evaluate all candidates fairly and consistently, and is carried out under our legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) in running a fair, well-documented recruitment process. Who we share your data with Your personal data will be shared with the following processors, engaged by Controller to help manage its recruitment and hiring process: * Greenhouse Software, Inc. — applicant tracking system (United States) * Google LLC — video interview hosting/recording (Google Meet), and AI models used to help analyse application and interview materials (United States) * Anthropic, PBC — AI models used to help analyse and summarise application and interview materials (United States) * Cloudflare, Inc. — infrastructure and data storage supporting our recruitment tools [confirm storage region before publishing] We use application and interview data, including through AI-assisted tools, to train and improve our own internal recruitment tools and models — for example, to refine how we identify relevant skills and experience, and to better understand what tends to be associated with successful hires. This is part of how we evaluate and improve our recruitment process on an ongoing basis. The third-party AI providers who process this data on our behalf do not use it to train their own general-purpose AI models — it is used only to generate the specific outputs described in this notice. International data transfers Because the above providers are located in or transfer data to the United States, if you are located outside the United States, your personal data will be transferred to the United States once you submit it or once your interview is processed. Where the European Commission has not made an adequacy determination covering such a transfer, it is subject to appropriate safeguards, including Standard Contractual Clauses and/or the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework where the recipient is certified. You can obtain a copy of the relevant safeguards by contacting support@ophelos.com. How long we keep your data Your personal data, including any interview recordings, transcripts, and AI-generated summaries, will be retained for the duration of the recruitment process and for 24 months afterwards, to allow us to consider you for other roles and manage any related legal claims, after which it will be deleted or anonymised. You can request earlier deletion at any time by contacting support@ophelos.com. Your rights Under the GDPR, you have the right to request access to your personal data, to request that it be rectified or erased, and to request that processing be restricted. You also have the right to data portability and the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests, including interview recording — though for the reasons explained above, we may not be able to progress an application where a candidate objects to standard recording of the interview stage. In addition, you may lodge a complaint with an EU or UK supervisory authority (in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office).
ABOUT US Cronofy is a high-growth technology company headquartered in Nottingham, UK. Our mission is to be the go-to scheduling infrastructure for high performance companies globally. Over the past 11 years, we’ve grown a self-sustaining, profitable business serving businesses around the world. From market leaders like GoDaddy, Houzz and Indeed through to the smallest tech start-ups. We're truly international, with over half of our customers in the US with the remainder across EMEA and APAC. Our Customer Support team provides first-class service, with a Customer Satisfaction rating of >97%. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us, following recent funding we are in a strong position to enhance our core offering and expand into growing international markets. We are now looking for someone to help support the growth of the unparalleled Scheduling products that Cronofy offer. We actively support and encourage people to grow in their careers, and this role comes with real, proven progression. Previous support team members have moved into other areas of the business, such as engineering or infrastructure - or focus on Support to become an expert in what you do. We provide the time and tools to learn, improve, and develop, and we'll support you in finding the right path. THE ROLE As part of the Technical Support team, the role of Support Engineer is to resolve technical issues and queries for Cronofy's customers while delivering first-class support. The Support Engineer is responsible for fielding questions from the Cronofy customer base, taking ownership of customer issues, and seeing them through to resolution. Alongside ticket resolution, the Support Engineer regularly reviews and updates our documentation pages. This person genuinely cares about doing right by the customer and works closely with other teams across the business to ensure that customers have positive experiences with Cronofy. They naturally look for a better way forward, using initiative to find improvement opportunities and act on them. They're curious by nature and keen to deepen their understanding, building expertise in Cronofy's API and Scheduler tool. This role will also work alongside our Engineering team on product development projects, building the technical grounding needed to support increasingly complex, product-related issues. This role reports to Rachael, Support Team Lead. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: * Helping customers use Cronofy effectively * Building an in-depth understanding of Cronofy’s API, Scheduler tool, and the problems our customers face; becoming a Scheduling Expert * Managing, investigating, and resolving customer support tickets. Taking ownership from first response through to resolution * Troubleshooting technical issues, identifying root causes, and problem solving across a range of customer use cases * Providing exceptional customer service by offering advice, resolving confusion, and identifying possible bugs for our customers * Writing clear and helpful documentation for existing and upcoming features * Searching for opportunities to improve processes and support continuous improvement within the department * Working with Success, Product, Engineering, and Sales teams to understand and help customers REQUIREMENTS: * Clear understanding of API concepts and how they operate * Experience with an API or SaaS based business supporting a product * Technical customer support experience * Development experience with APIs, NodeJS, Ruby on Rails, C#, PHP or Go is preferred but not essential * Sysadmin experience with MS Exchange and/or Office 365 is preferred but not essential HOW WE WORK We can support a predominantly remote, office-based or hybrid working model. We really do value face to face time and, under normal circumstances, encourage teams to spend regular time together at our offices or suitable locations. Our Support team currently covers the UK and Amsterdam. We meet in a mixture of Nottingham (HQ), London, and Amsterdam offices. For this reason we are open to considering applicants in either the UK or Netherlands. We work hard but insist that everyone considers the balance between this alongside life and responsibilities outside of work. We use our principles to guide our behaviour as people and form the basis for our day-to-day decision making. We are direct with our dealings with each other. We continuously work to build mutual trust so that we can give each other feedback without fear of it being taken personally. HIRING PROCESS The goal is to discover what you will bring to Cronofy and what Cronofy will bring to you. It's as important for you to determine whether this is the right move for your career as much as anything else, so don't be afraid to ask questions. We value transparency and so are happy to answer (virtually) any questions you may have. WHAT WE OFFER * £30,000 - 40,000 per annum according to your experience * Pension scheme matched at 5% * 25 days holiday in addition to flexible national holidays. National holidays are added to your holiday allowance and you're not required to take them on the corresponding day. * 6 personal development days per year to use for L&D, charitable causes or similar * Private medical care with Bupa * Medicash Proactive cash plan for dental, optical etc. * EAP - Employee Assistance Programme providing 24/7 mental health support * Extended maternity and paternity leave for new parents and adoption * Pleo card for work expenses, hardware, travel etc. * A flexible approach to working; remote, office or hybrid * A principles driven culture that provides the framework for autonomous decision making and personal development. Cronofy exists to schedule everything for everyone. We can only achieve this goal when we strive to foster an inclusive working environment that inspires innovative thinking. We believe everyone at Cronofy should have equal opportunity to learn, create their best work, and grow in their careers.