Senior Software Engineer

Who you are

• 5+ years of experience, comfortable working independently
• Proficient with Ruby/Rails, Javascript, React.js, Next.js , Node.js
• Experience building API-driven applications
• Understand how to organize code across the stack: what belongs in the frontend, what in the back
• Comfortable with test frameworks
• A strong advocate of clean code
• Experience with event-driven architecture
• Experience with modeling mappings and leveraging ElasticSearch
• Any GraphQL or Federated API layer experience
• Familiarity with automated testing and JS build and packaging systems like Webpack and Jest
• Experience leading and delivering cross-functional projects
• A growth mindset and a desire to learn, teach, and mentor others

What the job involves

• We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Post-Booking team, someone who doesn't just build, but raises the quality bar across our entire ecosystem. You'll be instrumental in shaping the consumer experience following the initial booking process
• Your work will focus on building new features to improve the customer experience through high-performance Node.js services and AI-driven enhancements, as well as critical replatforming work to modernize our microservice infrastructure
• Architect: Define the multi-quarter technical roadmap for Post-Booking domains (backend, frontend web client etc) along with the engineering manager and architects - driving strategy, addressing tech debt, and evolving scalable system architecture, APIs, and data models
• Tech Lead: Lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives
• Solver: Translate ambiguous, high-stakes business goals into clear technical strategies, designs, and experiments
• Multiplier: Serve as a Javascript subject-matter expert, champion high-quality testing and AI practices, mentor engineers, and produce durable technical documentation
• Champion AI-Driven Development: Lead the adoption of Spec-Driven Development (SDD) leveraging advanced AI tools, ensuring engineers consistently turn well-defined specs into robust, scalable Node.js implementations and comprehensive test suites

Benefits

• Remote first and highly connected
• Employee-covered health care
• 401k with match
• Flexible PTO
• Paid holidays & recharge weeks
• Wellbeing allowance and free access to HeadSpace and Spring Health
• Paid parental leave, adoption assistance, and reproductive health assistance
• Speaker series, career paths, and an annual education allowance
• IKEA discount, Taskrabbit credit, and productivity stipend