Senior Booking Platform Engineer

Alexander Chapman Ltd; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Alexander Chapman Ltd is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the core booking API and infrastructure for a high-growth travel tech platform in New York. You will tackle inventory, pricing, reservations, concurrency, and third-party integrations at scale.

You will design stable, versioned APIs, handle retries and idempotency, and evolve the core booking domain across products. Collaboration with Product and Partnerships is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Backend engineering and distributed systems experience.
• Experience building external APIs or integration platforms.
• Strong understanding of relational databases, concurrency, and asynchronous workflows.
• Ownership of important systems from design through production.
• Strong fundamentals in testing, observability, reliability, and safe deployments.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building stable, versioned APIs for availability, pricing, bookings, changes, and cancellations.
• Building systems that handle retries, idempotency, partial failures, and reconciliation.
• Evolving the core booking domain across products, inventory, pricing, holds, and reservations.
• Building reusable patterns for PMS, POS, and other third-party integrations.
• Improving reliability, observability, testing, and production performance.
• Working with Product, Partnerships, and engineers to translate complex business requirements into scalable systems.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

API development

Transactional systems

Databases

Testing & observability

OpenSource/DevOps

Tools

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

Node.js

OpenSearch

AWS

Datadog

MongoDB

REST/OpenAPI

Job description

Alexander Chapman Ltd is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the core booking API and infrastructure for a high-growth travel tech platform in New York. You will tackle inventory, pricing, reservations, concurrency, and third-party integrations at scale.

You will design stable, versioned APIs, handle retries and idempotency, and evolve the core booking domain across products. Collaboration with Product and Partnerships is essential.