Senior Backend Engineer - Lodging and Cars

ABOUT THE ROLE Join the Lodging and Cars Supply team at the heart of our lodging and cars business unit, where you will be instrumental in scaling a global hotel and cars ecosystem that handles high-volume, real-time transactions. As a senior-level individual contributor, you will navigate a complex microservices environment to deliver reliable booking fulfillment, integrate new lodging and cars partners into our core stack, and optimize system monitoring. This role is designed for a self-directed engineer who excels at system exploration and immediate technical execution within an established, high-growth travel environment. WHAT WOULD YOUR DAY-TO-DAY LOOK LIKE - Execute end-to-end technical integrations with external lodgings, cars and GDS partners while navigating complex communication protocols and distributed data schemas. - Write clean, performant code in Scala or other JVM languages to maintain, evolve, and uphold rigorous engineering standards for mission-critical lodging services. - Explore and troubleshoot existing complex codebases to deep-dive into infrastructure and resolve production issues in a distributed system environment. - Partner with Product Managers and Operations to decompose business requirements into technical tasks and estimate delivery timelines. - Take full ownership of the development lifecycle for new product features, from initial technical impl...