Principal Engineer

We're Hiring : Staff / Principal Engineer (Java) - RemoteLocation : 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 B2B 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

• 1B+ search requests per day
• 40ms average response time
• 200M+ 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% YoY 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, ScyllaDB, MongoDB, Kafka, RedisPlatform : AWS, Docker, CI / CD, GitHub ActionsData & AI (Good to have) : Databricks, Spark, Claude, LangGraph, RAG pipelinesObservability : Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✅ 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
• NoSQL databases (ScyllaDB, MongoDB)
• 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 B2B marketplace background
• Full-stack experience with React━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Why Join Hotel Trader?Impact : Shape a high-GMV, global-scale B2B platform transforming an entire industryTech : Work with cutting-edge stack including ScyllaDB, 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.