Staff Software Engineer

Location: New York City (4 days Hybrid)

Pay: $190,000 - $240,000 Base + EquityNo Sponsorship Offered

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

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