Travel marketplace connecting 30M+ Latin American users across 19 countries
Despegar operates a diversified travel-tech platform spanning flights, hotels, payments, and financing across Latin America. The hiring split skews heavily toward sales (51 roles) and marketing (11), with minimal engineering (7) and data (4) headcount—typical of a marketplace past product-market fit, now optimizing conversion and retention. Active projects center on Google ecosystem tooling, travel-partner transformation, and AI automation (SOFIA, their generative AI travel assistant), while pain points cluster around campaign performance, conversion rates, and process compliance.
Despegar is a travel marketplace serving over 30 million customers across 19 countries in Latin America. The business integrates six acquired or affiliated brands (Best Day, HotelDO, Viajes Falabella, Koin, ViajaNet, Stays.net) and operates across flights, accommodations, alternative payment methods, and financing products. The company employs 1,001–5,000 people and is now part of Prosus Group (as of 2025) alongside iFood, Sympla, and OLX Brasil. Despegar has introduced SOFIA, a generative AI travel assistant, as a core product feature. The tech stack spans analytics (Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio), front-end frameworks (Angular, React), backend languages (Python, Java), and travel-industry APIs (SABRE, Amadeus).
Despegar uses Angular and React for front-end, Python and Java for backend, MongoDB for storage, Docker for deployment, Power BI and Tableau for analytics, and SABRE and Amadeus for travel distribution APIs.
Despegar operates in 19 countries across Latin America and is actively hiring in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Peru, and the United States.
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