Principal Engineer - Backend Development

We're looking for hands-on technical leaders to join as Staff or Principal Engineers-builders who can lead by doing.

You'll be the backbone of architectural decisions, drive scalability across domains, and solve complex distributed systems problems while mentoring teams through execution.

Each Staff / Principal Engineer is expected to own multiple initiatives or projects end-to-end, from design to rollout, working collaboratively across teams to drive business and technical outcomes.

Responsibilities :

• Drive system design, platform architecture, and self-serve engineering capabilities across high-scale microservices and real-time.
• Own end-to-end delivery of critical initiatives, from scoping and design to deployment and scaling.
• Own and lead multiple projects simultaneously-be accountable for quality, performance, and timelines.
• Lead by example as a hands-on developer, picking up the most complex pieces and turning ambiguity into working software.
• Build scalable and resilient systems using Java (Spring Boot), Event-Driven Architectures, and NoSQL (ScyllaDB / MongoDB).
• Solve real-time, high-throughput challenges across search, pricing, availability, and booking workflows.
• Embrace AI-powered development methodology (Claude, Cursor) to increase product release velocity and build accuracy.
• Collaborate across teams (Product, Infra, Data, Architects) with a mindset of ownership and partnership.
• Conduct rigorous design and code reviews with attention to clean code, performance, and maintainability.

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