Staff Engineer
Core
Drive complex engineering initiatives, mentor engineers, and set technical direction for SiteMinder's hotel commerce platform.
Role type
Staff Engineer (Technical Domain Custodian)
Builds
Scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems for hotel revenue management and booking.
Domain
Hospitality technology / Global Distribution Systems (GDS)
Required skills
Complex problem-solving, solution design, system resilience strategies, code quality improvement, CI/CD optimization, microservices architecture, API design, mentoring/coaching, requirements gathering, technical documentation.
Preferred skills
Hospitality industry experience, GDS experience, JVM/Node.js/Vue.js expertise, AWS ecosystem mastery, relational and NoSQL database expertise.
Technologies
JVM, Node.js, Vue.js, AWS (EC2, Kinesis, SQS, ElastiCache, Lambda, S3), MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis.
Responsibilities
Perform spikes to identify risks and clarify scope; lead engineers in defining technical requirements; provide solution options during research and delivery; conduct technical change impact evaluations; write comprehensive architecture documentation; independently lead complex solution development; define system resilience and performance strategies; improve Ways of Working and engineering processes; mentor and coach other engineers.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people leadership