Staff Backend Software Engineer - Commerce Foundations (100% Remote - Colombia)

📋 Description

• Architectural Sovereignty: Lead API/full-stack design for Stays/Packages across HTS.
• Systemic Improvement: Identify bottlenecks hindering scale and drive improvements.
• High-Alignment Leadership: Autonomy to align on complex roadmaps with minimal meetings.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Collaborate with product teams and partners to ensure robust foundations.
• Asynchronous Excellence: Document decisions clearly to enable async decision-making.

🎯 Requirements

• Technical Fearlessness: Deep dive into unknown code and craft elegant abstractions quickly.
• Foundational Product Thinking: Quality anchored in customer; stable commerce engine.
• Mastery of Distributed Systems: Distributed systems experience in Scala; balance consistency, availability, latency.
• Multi-Tenant Mindset: Configuration over customization; modular systems for many partners.
• Pragmatic Vision: Balance long-term health with speed; know what must be right first.

🎁 Benefits

• Well-funded startup with competitive salary and upsides of pre-IPO equity.
• Group medical and dental insurance for full-time employees.
• Life insurance with short and long term disability coverage.
• Telemedicine services for all employees.
• Generous parental leave above industry standards.
• Unlimited PTO.