Senior Backend Engineer

🔥 14 minutes ago

🌐 Mexico, Colombia, +1 more countries – Remote

🇲🇽 Mexico – Remote 🇨🇴 Colombia – Remote 🇨🇱 Chile – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Peek

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

🏨 Hospitality

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

💰 $80M Series C on 2021-11

Hospitality • Food & Beverage • Logistics

Peek is a company that specializes in offering a wide range of experiences and activities for travelers and adventure seekers. Their platform allows users to discover and book various tours and activities such as snorkeling, ATV rides, kayak rentals, art experiences, food tours, and more across numerous global destinations like the Cayman Islands, Sint Maarten, San Diego, and many others. Peek also provides 'Peek Pro,' a service tailored for businesses to manage bookings. The company emphasizes user-friendly interfaces to filter by top-rated activities and provides detailed booking information to enhance the travel experience for over 25 million customers.

📋 Description

• Improve backend systems, tooling, and practices used by other engineering teams • Develop features where appropriate as part of the platform team • Identify automation opportunities in engineering workflows and build solutions using AI agents where helpful • Build and maintain shared services, libraries, and APIs • Enable dependent teams through guidance, documentation, and code review • Own security fixes and dependency updates across backend systems • Triage vulnerabilities and safely plan and ship upgrades in an existing codebase • Identify and diagnose performance bottlenecks and scalability limits • Reason about concurrency, failure modes, and reliability across APIs and integrations • Own services in production, including monitoring, debugging, performance, and reliability • Investigate incidents to root cause and implement proper fixes • Contribute to an AI-first engineering culture by sharing patterns and documenting effective practices • Use AI tools to accelerate implementation while critically reviewing generated output

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend development using Java • Meaningful track record of shipping and operating production systems • Strong system design and architectural decision-making skills • Strong backend fundamentals, including API design, integrations, concurrency, failure modes, and service reliability • Deep understanding of database behavior, data modeling, query design, indexing, and performance implications • Proven ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks and debug complex production issues to root cause • Comfortable working in an existing, evolving codebase and making safe incremental changes • Hands-on, daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Augment, or equivalent • Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated code, including logic, security, and maintainability • Clear technical communication and constructive disagreement • Interest in Elixir or functional programming languages • Experience building B2B SaaS products, preferably with complex multi-tenant data models or transactional workflows • Experience on small, high-output teams • Familiarity with frontend development and JavaScript/TypeScript; Angular or modern JavaScript frameworks are a plus • Experience on a platform, internal tooling, or developer-enablement team, including security patching and dependency upgrades • Background in the travel, hospitality, or experiences industry is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first work arrangement • Equal-opportunity employment • Disability assistance during the application process