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.

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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

  WhatsApp

  Stripe (payments)

  Additional workflows:

  Email parsers reading Excel attachments

  CSV generation & ingestion via Google Drive

  Google Forms integrations

  Blocking page flows in current UI

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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)

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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.

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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.

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  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

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  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.

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    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

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    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.

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