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Spotnana powers unparalleled global travel experiences.
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Location
United States
Posted
123 days ago
Salary
$210K - $240K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Spotnana
• Lead the technical vision and architecture of large-scale backend systems, shaping the platform’s evolution. • Drive high-impact, cross-team initiatives from conception to delivery, ensuring alignment with business goals. • Establish and promote engineering best practices, emphasizing scalability, performance, and reliability. • Mentor engineers across levels, including senior engineers, guiding the next generation of technical leaders. • Collaborate on long-term engineering goals, roadmaps, and technical debt reduction. • Influence cross-functional teams and contribute to hiring and talent development, supporting a diverse, capable, and high-performing team.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years in software development with deep expertise in designing and scaling cloud-native backend systems (e.g., microservices, Kubernetes, distributed systems).
- Extensive experience driving technical direction for large, complex systems and leading cross-functional engineering teams.
- Proven ability to balance long-term technical vision with short-term execution, solving complex technical trade-offs.
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills, fostering high-performance engineering culture and influencing at all levels.
- Expertise with modern distributed computing frameworks and tools (e.g., Kafka, gRPC, AWS/GCP, databases at scale).
- Excellent communication skills and experience contributing to company-wide technical strategy.
Benefits
- Pre-tax and ROTH 401(k) options via Fidelity with up to a 4% company match
- Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability effective on your hire date. We cover 100% of your employee premiums and 85% of your eligible dependents
- Pre-tax flexible spending account options for health, dependent care and commuter expenses
- Flexible PTO in addition to 10 company holidays, and an end-of-year company shutdown
- Up to 26 weeks of parental leave
- Monthly cell phone/internet stipend
- Extra perks — IATAN travel membership, pet insurance, legal services, financial wellness tools, Calm app access, and more
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