Senior Backend Engineer: API Design & Scalable Systems

WINDY RESORT; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Stock Options

401k Plan

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Annual ResortPass Credit

Job summary

WINDY RESORT is seeking a senior software engineer to lead the technical design and hands-on development of the ResortPass external API, enabling support for multiple distribution partners and AI agents. You will evolve the core booking domain to accommodate diverse product categories while ensuring reliability, idempotency, and safe failure recovery.

The role requires 6+ years of software engineering experience with a track record in transactional systems and external APIs; relational modeling

Qualifications

• Requires 6+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record in designing transactional systems and external APIs.
• Candidates must be proficient in relational modeling and distributed failures; Ruby on Rails experience is useful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and hands-on development of the ResortPass external API to support multiple distribution partners and AI agents.
• Evolve the core booking domain to handle diverse product categories while ensuring system reliability, idempotency, and safe recovery.

Skills

Backend Engineering

API Design

Ruby on Rails

Postgres

System Architecture

Distributed Systems

Relational Modeling

Concurrency

OpenAPI

REST

AWS

Datadog

RSpec

Playwright

Node.js

OpenSearch

Job description

WINDY RESORT is seeking a senior software engineer to lead the technical design and hands-on development of the ResortPass external API, enabling support for multiple distribution partners and AI agents. You will evolve the core booking domain to accommodate diverse product categories while ensuring reliability, idempotency, and safe failure recovery.

The role requires 6+ years of software engineering experience with a track record in transactional systems and external APIs; relational modeling