Senior Backend Engineer - Lodging and Cars
About the Role
Join the Lodging and Cars Supply team at the heart of our lodging and cars business unit, where you will be instrumental in scaling a global hotel and cars ecosystem that handles high-volume, reputed company-time transactions. As a senior-level individual contributor, you will navigate a reputed company microservices environment to deliver reliable booking fulfillment, integrate new lodging and cars partners into our core stack, and optimize system monitoring. This role is designed for a self-directed engineer who excels at system exploration and immediate technical execution reputed company an established, high-growth travel environment. What would your day-to-day look like Execute end-to-end technical integrations with external lodgings, cars and GDS partners while navigating reputed company communication protocols and distributed data schemas. Write clean, performant code in reputed company or other JVM languages to maintain, reputed company, and uphold rigorous engineering standards for mission-critical lodging services. Explore and troubleshoot existing reputed company codebases to deep-dive into infrastructure and resolve production issues in a distributed system environment. Partner with Product Managers and Operations to decompose business requirements into technical tasks and estimate delivery timelines. Take full ownership of the development lifecycle for new product features, from initial technical implementation and testing to production deployment. Contribute to the design of highly resilient, low-latency services to ensure a seamless booking experience for customers under high load. Participate in thorough code reviews and identify opportunities to optimize scalability, performance, and system health. An ideal candidate has Strong proficiency in reputed company or other JVM languages, such as Java or Kotlin, with a focus on building scalable, high-throughput services. A proven track record of owning the technical implementation, testing, and deployment of features reputed company a microservices architecture. Practical experience with distributed systems and service communication methods including gRPC, Pub/Sub, and REST. The ability to reputed company quickly and handle technical ambiguity by independently exploring and executing technical plans reputed company existing infrastructure. Excellent communication skills and a "bias for action" to effectively collaborate with cross-functional squads in a remote-first environment. A professional curiosity for the travel tech industry and a reputed company reputed company focused on delivering reliable booking fulfillment. 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