Principal engineer

Hotel TraderLucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

2 days ago

Job description

???? We're Hiring : Staff / Principal Engineer (Java) - Remote???? Location : Remote | ???? Global Team | ???? Experience : 8–12 yearsReady to build the future of hotel distribution at scale?At Hotel Trader, we're not just another travel-tech company—we're the cloud-native B2 B platform revolutionizing how hotels connect with global demand. Backed by Highgate Technology Ventures and founded by serial travel-tech entrepreneurs, we're scaling fast and building something extraordinary.???? The Scale We Operate At

1 B+ search requests per day

40ms average response time

200 M+ inbound messages daily

Live integrations with Hilton, Highgate, Wyndham (expanding rapidly across US & Europe)???? Our Growth StoryIn just 18 months, we've :

Tripled our team size

Achieved 100% Yo Y revenue growth

Scaled globally with real revenue traction━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━???? What You'll DoAs a Staff / Principal Engineer, you'll be our technical backbone—a hands-on leader who drives by doing : Architecture & Systems

Drive system design and platform architecture decisions

Build scalable, resilient systems using Java (Spring Boot) and event-driven architectures

Solve real-time, high-throughput challenges in search, pricing, and booking workflowsLeadership & Delivery

Own end-to-end delivery of critical initiatives from design to deployment

Lead multiple high-impact projects simultaneously

Mentor teams while solving the most complex, ambiguous technical challengesInnovation

Embrace AI-powered development (Claude, Cursor) to boost productivity

Build automation-first solutions and internal platforms

Focus on performance optimization and low-latency system design━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━????️ Our Tech StackBackend : Java (Spring Boot), Microservices, AWS ECS, Scylla DB, Mongo DB, Kafka, RedisPlatform : AWS, Docker, CI / CD, Git Hub ActionsData & AI (Good to have) : Databricks, Spark, Claude, Lang Graph, RAG pipelinesObservability : Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Watch━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✅ What We're Looking ForMust-Have :

8-12 years backend development experience

Deep Java expertise (Spring Boot, Hibernate)

Hands-on developer who can code, architect, and lead by example

Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining quality and timelines

Strong collaboration skills with stakeholders - Product teams, Clients, and Cross-functional tech teams

Distributed systems experience with event-driven architectures

No SQL databases (Scylla DB, Mongo DB)

Performance optimization and latency tuning skills

Ownership mindset with proven track record of delivering mission-critical projectsBonus Points :

LLM pipelines, RAG, or agentic AI experience

Databricks, Spark, or large-scale data processing

Travel-tech or B2 B marketplace background

Full-stack experience with React━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━???? Why Join Hotel Trader?Impact : Shape a high-GMV, global-scale B2 B platform transforming an entire industryTech : Work with cutting-edge stack including Scylla DB, Kafka, AWS, AI tools, and moreCulture : Remote-first, ownership-heavy environment where engineering excellence is non-negotiableGrowth : Join during our rapid expansion phase and grow with us━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Ready to build the next generation of hotel distribution????? Interested? Drop me a message or apply directly - let's chat about how you can help us scale to the next level!Share this post if you know someone who'd be a great fit! ????#hiring #java #distributedsystems #microservices #remotework #traveltech #engineerjobs #scaleup #seniordeveloper #principalengineerHotel Trader is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.

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