Staff Backend Engineer
$250kHarnham
Job Description
Staff Backend Engineer (API & Distributed Systems)
\nLocation: New York City (4 days onsite per week)
\nPay: $250,000 Base + Equity
\nNo Sponsorship Offered
\n \nAbout the Opportunity
\nA high-growth technology company is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to lead the architecture and development of a business-critical external platform powering partner integrations, booking workflows, inventory management, and transactional systems.
\nThis is a senior individual contributor position for an engineer with deep technical expertise who wants to own large-scale architectural decisions while remaining hands-on with development. The role combines API strategy, distributed systems design, data modeling, and technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.
\n \nResponsibilities
\n- \n
- Lead the architecture, design, and development of externally facing APIs and platform services. \n
- Drive technical strategy and establish engineering standards for partner integrations and transactional workflows. \n
- Design highly reliable systems supporting reservations, inventory, pricing, booking, and order management processes. \n
- Make foundational data modeling and domain architecture decisions across multiple products. \n
- Partner with senior engineering leadership on long-term platform scalability and reliability initiatives. \n
- Mentor engineers and influence technical direction without direct people management responsibilities. \n
- Improve observability, performance, resilience, and operational excellence across distributed systems. \n
Must Have Qualifications
\n- \n
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience. \n
- Prior experience operating at Senior Staff, Staff Engineer, Lead Engineer, or equivalent level. \n
- Expertise designing and shipping correctness-critical transactional systems involving bookings, payments, reservations, inventory, orders, or commerce platforms. \n
- Strong experience designing external APIs, service integrations, and distributed systems. \n
- Deep understanding of relational databases, domain modeling, and large-scale system architecture. \n
- Experience with cloud-native environments, preferably AWS. \n
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. \n
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