Staff Software Engineer

Senior \& Staff Backend Engineer, Booking Platform \& APIs

New York City (Manhattan) · 4 days onsite · $190K to $250K base \+ equity

The company

• Growth-stage, venture-backed and already profitable
• The category leader in a consumer marketplace with millions of customers and thousands of business partners
• A small, senior engineering team, all in NYC
• Engineers come from Google, Meta, Microsoft and Bloomberg

Why now

The product works and the business makes money. Now they’re opening the platform up:

• Distribution APIs:

large consumer platforms, financial brands and AI agents will sell inventory directly through the API you build

• New product categories:

each one adds new booking rules to model

• International expansion:

starting next year

That means rebuilding the core backend and data model, and this hire leads it.

What you’ll build

• The external booking API partners plug into: search, pricing, holds, bookings, changes, cancellations
• A data model flexible enough for bundles, add-ons, timed slots and tickets
• The hard parts of a booking system: concurrency, inventory locking and consistency across partners
• The patterns every future integration is built on

Two levels

• Senior (2 hires):

own API design and day-to-day technical decisions, with a path to Staff

• Staff (1 hire):

own the booking domain and technical roadmap, still writing production code

What they look for

• Strong system design and data modelling
• A clear communicator who can explain the why behind a decision
• Curious problem solvers. Stack doesn’t matter; most of the team learned it on the job
• Bonus: payments, orders, reservations or inventory systems

The deal

• Senior $190K to $210K base, Staff $220K to $250K, plus equity
• 4 days in a Manhattan office
• Fast process: strong candidates have gone from first call to offer in a week

US work authorization required (TN accepted).