Full Stack Software Engineer

About The Landline Company

Landline is building infrastructure that lets passengers clear security and check in for their flight closer to home — before they ever reach the airport. We provide seamless ground connectivity on behalf of American Airlines, Air Canada, and other major carriers, integrating booking, secure transport, and baggage handling into a single ticket across a growing North American network.

Backed by top-tier venture investors and partners like CLEAR, we've spent five years making the travel day seamless for millions of passengers. Now we're building the next piece: secure remote checkpoints that let travelers clear security and check in in the city.

Job Summary

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you'll embed with the operations teams running our operations across 7 hub airports in North America — and build the automation and agentic systems that make their work faster, more reliable, and more scalable. This is not a role where you build in isolation and hand off. You'll spend time on the ground watching how our staff actually move passengers, bags, and vehicles through a live 24/7 operation, identify what's slow or manual or error-prone, and ship tooling that fixes it.

You'll build agentic workflows that our field staff use in real operational settings: automating booking exceptions, baggage reconciliation, checkpoint throughput, real-time passenger communications, and the dozens of edge cases that come with running physical operations across a distributed network. You'll own these systems end to end, from the backend services and infrastructure to the interfaces our operators rely on.

This is a hands-on role with real end-to-end ownership on a lean, high-output team. You'll work directly with the people making operational decisions, ship frequently, and own what you build. Expect to travel to a hub roughly once every few weeks to stay close to the work.

What We're Looking For

• Python/Django backend, production-grade — you've built and maintained services in production, not just contributed to them
• Agentic or automation experience — LLM-driven workflows, orchestration, tool-calling, or process automation that real users depend on
• GCP and Kubernetes ownership — infrastructure is part of your work, not someone else's problem
• React frontend capability — comfortable owning a full feature from API to operator-facing UI
• Strong instincts around reliability, data integrity, and system design in environments where failures have real downstream consequences on physical operations
• Comfort working in the field and translating messy, real-world operational problems into shipped software
• Willingness to travel to hub airports roughly every few weeks
• Travel startup or fintech background a plus — familiarity with reservation systems, payment flows, or regulated data environments will accelerate your ramp significantly

Why Join

• Impact — Ground-floor ownership of the automation layer behind Landline's newest product
• Proximity — You'll see your software used by real operators in a live operation, and iterate on it in days, not quarters
• Culture — A small, ambitious team that values speed, creativity, autonomy, and bias for action

What We Offer

• Global flight privileges through airline partners
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment (with regular travel to hubs)
• Competitive salary, 401(k), and PTO
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• The opportunity to contribute to sustainable transportation and redefine how people travel