Staff Software Engineer, Backend

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Backend in the United States.

This role sits at the core of a fast-scaling travel and fintech platform, where backend systems directly power real-time pricing, identity, booking, and spend experiences for millions of users. You will design and build highly distributed, high-performance systems that operate at massive scale and directly influence revenue, conversion, and customer experience. Working in a product-driven engineering culture, you will collaborate closely with product, data, and platform teams to solve complex architectural challenges. The environment is highly collaborative, fast-paced, and deeply focused on ownership and impact. You will contribute to critical backend services that must be reliable, secure, and scalable across global usage patterns. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where your decisions shape both system design and engineering standards. You will also mentor engineers and help raise the bar for backend architecture across teams.