Senior Backend Engineer - Booking Integrations (Contract)

Aescape; New York (NY); Remote; USD 170,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Aescape, a New York-based physical AI and robotics company, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer (Booking Integrations, Contract) to build and ship three third-party booking platform integrations and set up the infrastructure for ongoing maintenance. The role is a 4–6 month contract with potential extension or conversion to full-time.

The candidate will work during core business hours ET, collaborating with backend and infra teams, delivering scalable Go services and clear documentation for hand-off.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering with production Golang experience.
• Experience building and shipping third-party API integrations in production.
• Experience taking a service from skeleton to production and handing it off with clear documentation.
• Comfort working with vendor APIs that are inconsistent or thinly documented.
• Experience with AWS and infrastructure setup for backend services.
• Track record of working independently as a contractor or in a high-ownership role.
• Based in the United States and able to work as a 1099 independent contractor.

Responsibilities

• Review Aescape’s service and infrastructure templates and set up a skeleton service that follows our template Go service and best practices.
• Set up the infrastructure for running the third-party integration services so ongoing maintenance stays light.
• Implement each booking platform integration within this infrastructure, communicating with Aescape’s general third-party booking integration service (3 total third-party platforms in this contract)
• Work actively with the Aescape backend and infrastructure teams, giving feedback that improves the Aescape API and infrastructure template.
• Set up an infrastructure maintenance plan and hand off the work at the end of the engagement.
• Potential for future work: fixing integrations when third parties introduce breaking API changes, adding more booking providers, priority consideration when expanding the full-time roles on the backend team.

Skills

Backend engineering

Golang

API integration

System delivery

Vendor APIs

Independent contractor

Contract work

Tools

Go (Golang)

AWS

Job description

Aescape, a New York-based physical AI and robotics company, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer (Booking Integrations, Contract) to build and ship three third-party booking platform integrations and set up the infrastructure for ongoing maintenance. The role is a 4–6 month contract with potential extension or conversion to full-time.

The candidate will work during core business hours ET, collaborating with backend and infra teams, delivering scalable Go services and clear documentation for hand-off.