Senior Backend Software Engineer, Integrations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Assist in designing, developing, and enhancing connections among Event Temple and various hospitality platforms, property management systems, email service providers, payment processors, and other industry collaborators.

• Create and implement dependable, high-performance integrations with third-party APIs.

• Establish integrations with property management systems, payment gateways, hospitality platforms, and other external services.

• Contribute to both technical and architectural decisions for our expanding integration ecosystem.

• Develop and enhance systems for monitoring integration health, API performance, failures, and data consistency.

• Create robust integration workflows utilizing retries, idempotency, rate limiting, error handling, and graceful degradation.

• Collaborate with integration partners on technical requirements, API specifications, testing, and implementation details.

• Investigate and resolve intricate production issues spanning Event Temple and external systems.

• Enhance the scalability and reliability of background processing and synchronization workflows.

• Collaborate with fellow engineers to establish and disseminate best practices for APIs, integrations, and distributed systems.

• Engage in technical discussions with partner engineering teams and contribute to integration planning.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of professional software engineering experience.

• Extensive experience in building and maintaining third-party API integrations in a production environment.

• Strong backend development expertise using Ruby on Rails or another contemporary server-side framework.

• Willingness and capability to become proficient in Ruby on Rails.

• Experience in designing reliable systems for high-volume, multi-tenant applications.

• A solid understanding of REST APIs, webhooks, authentication, asynchronous processing, and background jobs.

• Proficient in managing retries, idempotency, rate limits, timeouts, partial failures, and data consistency.

• Familiarity with observability practices, including monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.

• Experience in investigating and debugging complex issues across distributed systems.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work autonomously while effectively collaborating with engineers, product teams, and external partners.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health and dental coverage.

• Competitive salary.

• Flexibility to work from home or remotely.