Staff Software Engineer, Passport & Commerce

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve core services and data models that track account state, eligibility, and entitlements across millions of accounts.
• Partner with product and design to translate new product concepts into scalable, extensible technical designs.
• Collaborate with Payments and Wallet engineering to ensure credits, discounts, and host-funded programs settle correctly end-to-end.
• Set technical direction and lead design reviews across a growing team.
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar on system design.
• Drive cross-team architecture decisions with Identity & Privacy and Profile & Community teams to keep account state consistent.
• Identify and resolve reliability, scalability, and data-integrity risks before they affect guests or hosts.

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience designing and scaling complex, distributed backend systems.
• Proven track record of technical leadership in high-growth environments.
• Experience setting architecture direction for a team or domain, beyond delivering individual features.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems fundamentals, including data consistency, caching, service decomposition, and API design at scale.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical decisions across multiple teams.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity on a newly formed team, including helping define team scope, roadmap, and technical foundations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience driving alignment across engineering, product, and design partners.

Nice to Have

• Experience building or operating systems involving financial transactions, entitlements, or other stateful account data.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base pay range: $212,000–$265,000 USD.
• May be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.