Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

Staff Software Engineer (Backend / API Platform)

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Location: New York City (4 days Hybrid)

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Pay: $190,000 - $240,000 Base + Equity

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No Sponsorship Offered

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About the Opportunity

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The organization is scaling its platform and seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and development of a mission-critical external API used by partners, third-party distributors, and emerging AI-driven booking channels.

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This is a highly impactful individual contributor role focused on transactional systems, inventory management, external integrations, API architecture, reliability, and platform scalability.

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Responsibilities

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• Design, build, and launch a versioned external API supporting pricing, availability, reservations, modifications, and cancellations.
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• Develop resilient booking workflows that handle retries, idempotency, reconciliation, timeouts, duplicate requests, and partial failures.
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• Own and evolve core booking domain models including inventory, pricing, scheduling, holds, carts, and bookings.
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• Design scalable integration patterns for third-party systems, booking partners, POS, and property-management platforms.
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• Build extensible platform capabilities that support multiple product categories without requiring separate booking systems.
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• Establish observability, monitoring, testing, alerting, and operational best practices for critical booking services.
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• Collaborate with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into durable platform solutions.
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Must-Have Qualifications

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• 8+ years of software engineering experience building backend or distributed systems.
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• Experience designing transactional systems, public APIs, integration platforms, or reservation/commerce platforms.
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• Strong understanding of relational databases, concurrency, consistency models, asynchronous workflows, and distributed systems failures.
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• Experience evolving production data models and operating high-availability systems at scale.
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• Hands-on experience with modern backend technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Node.js, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, and cloud infrastructure. (language-agnostic)
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• Strong focus on system reliability, testing, observability, monitoring, and production ownership.
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