Role Overview
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a senior technical leader responsible for designing, building, and scaling our core platform. You will work across the full stack from our PHP backend to our modern React frontends and help drive the evolution of our AWS-based cloud infrastructure.
This is a hands-on leadership role: youll be expected to deliver high-quality code, mentor engineers, lead technical initiatives, and partner closely with product and design teams to deliver business impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Architecture & Design: Lead design and implementation of scalable, secure, and maintainable systems across PHP backend, React frontend, and AWS infrastructure.
- Technical Leadership: Own complex features end-to-end; influence technical direction; set best practices in code quality, testing, and CI/CD.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, design, and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with product strategy.
- Mentorship & Growth: Coach engineers at multiple levels, provide technical guidance, and help shape the engineering culture.
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Ensure our systems are performant and reliable on AWS, leveraging services like RDS, ECS/Lambda, S3, CloudFront, etc.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to improve performance, security, scalability, and developer experience.
What Were Looking For
- Experience: 12+ years in software engineering, with at least 2+ years in a senior or staff-level role.
- Backend Expertise: Deep knowledge of PHP (modern frameworks, e.g. Laravel/Symfony, or large-scale monoliths). Strong MySQL or relational database design skills.
- Frontend Expertise: Proficiency in React, TypeScript, modern frontend tooling. Experience building scalable, maintainable UIs.
- Cloud & DevOps: Hands-on experience with AWS (RDS, ECS/Lambda, S3, CloudFront, IAM, networking). Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker).
- System Design: Proven ability to design and scale SaaS, multi-tenant or multi-db architectures.
- Leadership: Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers, leading technical discussions, and influencing product direction.
- Soft Skills: Strong communication, ability to work cross-functionally, customer-centric mindset. Nice to Have
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
- Knowledge of API design and integration patterns (REST/GraphQL).
- Exposure to microservices or modular monolith evolution.
- Background in hospitality, travel, or property management systems.
