Sr. Backend Engineer

Peek; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Travel Inc. in the United States is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer focused on Elixir and scalable backend systems.

You will own critical product areas, design API layers, integrate GraphQL APIs, and work with MySQL and messaging queues like RabbitMQ, while applying AI-driven tooling to improve coding and operations. You’ll join a remote-first, globally distributed team that values fast delivery, high code quality, and collaboration across Product, Design, and Engineering.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional development using Elixir.
• Experience with GraphQL APIs and MySQL.
• Familiarity with messaging queues such as RabbitMQ.
• Strong backend design, API development, and system reliability.
• Experience with microservices and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Own critical product areas and architectures.
• Design and operate complex agent orchestration systems with AI-focused approaches.
• Collaborate across Product, Design and Engineering to deliver robust features.
• Mentor peers, review code, and drive quality through testing and reviews.
• Ship features primarily through agent-assisted development in production.

Skills

Elixir

GraphQL APIs

RabbitMQ

Microservices

AI tools

System design

Code reviews

CI/CD

Databases

Ruby

Tools

GraphQL APIs

RabbitMQ

Job description

the company is the operating system powering the experiences industry - from museums and attractions to tours and activities. With over $7B in bookings, the company’s AI-powered platform has helped thousands of merchants to increase revenues, save time, and deliver seamless guest experiences. Customers include MoMA, Whitney Museum, Seattle Aquarium, Bryant Park & Looping Group. The company has raised over $150 million from institutional investors Westcap, Goldman Sachs, and SpringCoast Partners. Learn more at .

As a remote-first company recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Startup Employers and by Built In as a 2025 and 2026 Best Place to Work, we are a global team of "Peeksters" who "Obsess Over Our Customers," "Accomplish Big Things," "Collaborate With Purpose," and "Get Better Every Day.

Do you love crafting beautiful and functional customer experiences? Want to work on interesting technical problems around integrations and payments? Do you have a passion for Elixir and functional programming with a focus on building large, complex systems at scale? the company is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of development experience with Elixir, experience working with GraphQL APIs, MySQL, and familiarity with messaging queues such as RabbitMQ. In this role you will have the opportunity to take ownership of critical product areas and use AI tools as a force multiplier on top of your strong fundamentals.

Our engineering group works on several different products and systems: our the company Pro operations management suite, embeddable scheduling & booking flows, and custom development services for our enterprise customers. This role will primarily focus on Connectivity via third party integrations and the the company Pro “App Store”, and secondarily focus on payments-related initiatives.

We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer who works AI-first. That means you treat AI as a core part of how you build software and break down ambiguous problems, including delegating tasks to agents, reviewing their work critically, and course-correcting when things go sideways. You'll design and operate complex agent orchestration systems, develop patterns for human-agent collaboration, and ship real product features primarily through agent-assisted development in collaboration with human colleagues.

We work collaboratively, move fast, and value technical quality. If you are excited about the challenge of building an incredible product while working alongside a great engineering team, we'd love to hear from you!

What we’re looking for

• Strong backend fundamentals in Elixir: API design, data modeling, SQL, service reliability, and debugging production issues.

• Emphasis on creating scalable and reliable backend systems that integrate seamlessly with multiple services and products with an attention to high-quality code.

• A drive for exploring and leading new approaches to complex problems via collaboration with multiple stakeholders across Product, Design, and Engineering, particularly amongst one’s peers.

• Adaptability to the changing tech industry: demonstrated daily use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or equivalent) in a production engineering workflow.

• Ability to evaluate AI-generated code critically: you catch logic errors, identify security issues, assess maintainability, and own what gets merged regardless of how it was written.

• Strong system design instincts: you think about tradeoffs, edge cases, and what happens when things scale or fail.

• Clear and empathetic communicator: you flag when a spec has holes, you can articulate why you made a technical choice, you enjoy collaboration and seek to understand different perspectives, and you are constructive in any disagreements.

• Self-motivation and ownership: you will push your work forward without prompting and look for ways to unblock yourself and the team on business priorities; you enjoy ownership over your work and seeing code through from conception to production.

Skills you already have

• A passion for Elixir and functional programming

• 5+ years of professional development using Elixir

• Solid coding practices including peer code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, TDD, etc.

• Experience with relational and/or non-relational databases

• Experience with microservices
• Strong understanding of AI tools and ability to identify pitfalls and course correct AI-generated code based on deep knowledge of the fundamentals of building production software

Nice to haves

• Experience working with Ruby

• Experience working with GraphQL APIs

• Experience with message queues such as RabbitMQ

• Experience working on B2B software, on booking flows, or in the travel industry

• Experience working with payments systems like Stripe

• Enthusiasm for building and iterating on third party integrations

• Major bonus points for familiarity with OCTO, the open standard API for tours, activities and attractions

the company Travel Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

If you are unable to apply due to incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at . We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.

Compensation Range: MX$950,000 - MX$1,250,000