Staff Software Engineer, Backend — Booking Platform & APIs

Job Description

Lead the architecture and technical roadmap for the booking domain and external API while writing production code and guiding backend engineers. Build reliable booking and integration capabilities, lead incremental migrations, and establish operational practices, testing, observability, and safe rollbacks.

Requirements: Demonstrated experience leading substantial technical work across engineers or teams, designing transactional systems and APIs, and operating production systems through failures and change. Strong hands-on engineering, knowledge of data modeling, concurrency, consistency, and asynchronous workflows, and clear communication are required; Ruby on Rails experience is useful but not required.

Key Skills: Backend Software Engineering, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, API Design, Transactional Systems, Relational Data Modeling, Concurrency Control, Asynchronous Workflows, System Reliability, Integration Platforms, Technical Architecture, Production Operations, Mentoring, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS

Benefits: Health Coverage, Dental Coverage, Vision Coverage, Stock Options, 401(k) Plan, Unlimited Paid Time Off, Paid Parental Leave