Build and maintain backend features for the Stays team (search, booking, integrations).
Improve performance, reliability, and user experience of existing systems.
Integrate and maintain connections with internal and third-party APIs.
Collaborate with frontend engineers, product, design, and QA to deliver features

Requirements

Strong Java development skills.
Experience designing APIs and backend services.
Experience building high-performance, scalable services.
Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and web data formats/protocols (HTTP, XML, JSON).
Practical experience with APIs (design, consumption, or integration).
Clear communicator who works well on a team.
Self-driven and able to move projects forward independently.
Nice to have: Experience with Spring, Git, Redis, Kafka, or similar technologies.
Experience working on search, booking, or high-throughput systems.

Benefits

Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
Flexible hours and ability to work from home 1 or 2 days per week
Generous retirement plans
Awesome health, dental and vision insurance plans with flexible spending accounts
Focus on mental health and well-being:
Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
No meeting Fridays
Universal paid parental leave
Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
Paid volunteer time
Focus on your career growth:
Development Dollars
Leadership development
Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
Travel Discounts
Employee Resource Groups
Competitive retirement and health plans
Free lunch 2 days per week
Fun quarterly events such as boat trips, arcades, ski trips, Thursday happy hours, and more

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaAPI designbackend serviceshigh-performance servicesscalable servicesrelational databasesMySQLHTTPXMLJSON

Soft Skills

clear communicatorteamworkself-drivenindependent project management