Backend Engineer – Data Acquisition (Fully Remote)

Lighthouse; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Lighthouse is seeking a backend engineer to design and develop high-performance systems in Rust for data acquisition, building robust interfaces for internal teams and AI agents. You will be part of the Crawler Engineering team enabling reliable, scalable data pipelines.

You will help handle ~200 million requests daily across 200+ data sources, tackle crawler challenges, and own code quality, tests, observability, and maintainability. This role focuses on hotel data quality and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance backend systems in Rust for data acquisition.
• Build clear interfaces for other teams and AI agents.
• Handle close to 200 million requests a day across 200+ data sources.
• Investigate hard crawler problems and test alternative approaches.
• Own code quality, tests, observability, and maintainability.
• The Crawler Engineering team ensures fresh, high-quality hotel data.
• We handle 200+ data sources with a focus on reliability and efficiency.

Job description

• Design and develop high-performance backend systems in Rust for data acquisition.
• Build clear interfaces for other teams and AI agents.

Where you will have impact:

• Handle close to 200 million requests a day across 200+ data sources.
• Investigate hard crawler problems and test alternative approaches.
• Own code quality, tests, observability, and maintainability.

About our team:

• The Crawler Engineering team ensures fresh, high-quality hotel data.
• We handle 200+ data sources with a focus on reliability and efficiency.

Lighthouse

Lighthouse is on a mission to revolutionize commercial strategy as hospitality's most powerful AI platform, transforming the world's largest hotel data network into real-time intelligence. With 850+ teammates across 35 countries and $370M in Series C funding, we foster a collaborative, customer-centric culture focused on innovation and growth.