Global luxury travel marketplace with 8M+ members across 27 markets
Luxury Escapes operates a curated travel platform connecting members to five-star resorts, tours, and experiences at negotiated prices. The tech stack—Salesforce, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Sabre (GDS integration)—reflects a commerce-heavy backend built for high-volume bookings and personalization, while active adoption of GCP signals infrastructure scaling. Hiring momentum is concentrated in sales and engineering, with active projects spanning dynamic pricing, conversion optimization, and global expansion, indicating a push toward both operational efficiency and market growth.
Luxury Escapes is a Melbourne-based travel marketplace founded in 2013, now operating across 27 markets with over 8 million members. The platform aggregates five-star resorts, curated tours, flights, and experiences, delivering them at insider rates through a mobile-first booking experience (iOS, Android via Kotlin and Jetpack Compose). The business model combines inventory curation with dynamic pricing and member personalization (powered by Braze and Salesforce Marketing Cloud), supported by a 500+ person team split across sales, engineering, product, and support functions. Current pain points center on rate competitiveness, booking flow friction, and scaling customer support—reflected in active initiatives around conversion optimization and high call volumes.
Frontend: React, TypeScript, JavaScript; Backend: Node.js, PostgreSQL, Java, Kotlin; Cloud/Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS), GCP, Azure; Travel: Sabre GDS; Marketing: Salesforce, Braze, Salesforce Marketing Cloud; Support: Zendesk; Mobile: iOS, Android (Jetpack Compose).
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The company was founded there in 2013 and now operates across 27 global markets with 501–1,000 employees.
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