Senior Backend Engineer for Booking & PMS Integrations

Wander; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

401(k)

Stays at Wander homes

Job summary

Wander is seeking a Backend Engineer for WanderOS in San Francisco or Austin. You will own core backend services, including PMS integrations, availability and pricing pipelines, bookings, payments, and APIs powering host dashboards and direct-booking sites.

You will design TypeScript services, scale ingestion pipelines, model data in Postgres with Prisma, and ensure end-to-end reliability. The role emphasizes speed, correctness, and strong written communication in a remote-friendly,

Qualifications

• 4+ years of production backend experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Strong PostgreSQL data modeling and Prisma ORM experience.
• Experience with large-scale third-party API integrations and rate limits.
• Comfort with async/event-driven architectures and queues.
• Excellent written communication and ability to work async/remotely.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship TypeScript services and APIs that handle bookings, quotes, availability, payouts, and site provisioning.
• Build and harden PMS integrations (Guesty, Hostaway, OwnerRez, Lodgify, Streamline, Track, Escapia, and more).
• Scale ingestion and sync pipelines that process hundreds of thousands of availability records per hour.
• Model data in Postgres with Prisma; use Redis, Kafka, and Temporal for queues, caching, and durable workflows.
• Own reliability end to end: alerting, tracing, runbooks, and on-call for the services you ship.
• Work with hosts, ops, and sales to turn real customer pain into shipped fixes.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Prisma

APIs at scale

Event-driven

SQL

Product mindset

Remote communication

Distributed systems

Tools

Prisma ORM

PostgreSQL

Job description

Wander is seeking a Backend Engineer for WanderOS in San Francisco or Austin. You will own core backend services, including PMS integrations, availability and pricing pipelines, bookings, payments, and APIs powering host dashboards and direct-booking sites.

You will design TypeScript services, scale ingestion pipelines, model data in Postgres with Prisma, and ensure end-to-end reliability. The role emphasizes speed, correctness, and strong written communication in a remote-friendly,