Staff Software Engineer - Platform & Architecture

May 30

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Wander

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Hospitality • Travel

Wander is a unique platform that offers luxury vacation homes combining the quality of top hotels with the comfort and privacy of private residences. Users can book these homes across inspiring and breathtaking locations, all equipped with hotel-grade amenities, dreamy beds, and meticulous cleaning services. Wander provides 24/7 concierge service to assist travelers with various needs from inquiries about the home to local activity recommendations. With a focus on safety and security, Wander only selects the top 1% of vacation homes for its platform, ensuring a high standard of living and experience.

11 - 50 employees

📋 Description

• Architect the Platform. Define and evolve the technical north star for Wander’s booking, pricing, property-ops, and homeowner systems – balancing immediate product needs with long-term flexibility. • Raise the Engineering Bar. Drive clear patterns for service boundaries, observability, testing, and CI/CD that enable engineers to ship with confidence. • Mentor & Uplift. Coach staff and senior engineers, run design reviews, and model pragmatic, empathetic leadership in a fully remote, async-first culture. • Lead Cross-Functional Initiatives. Partner with product and data teams to design LLM-powered pricing, dynamic content, and operational tooling. • Scale with Quality. Guide the team through capacity planning, performance tuning, and incident retrospectives as we 10x traffic and double our product surface. • Champion Developer Experience. Shape internal platforms, tooling, and documentation so that every new hire can be productive within their first week.

🎯 Requirements

• You’ve repeatedly scaled production systems and have operated at Staff level (or higher) for several years. • Demonstrated success designing extentsible, composable service or plugin architectures that served multiple product lines. • Deep experience with TypeScript & Node.js (our primary language) plus a polyglot mindset and comfortable choosing the right tool for the job – Go, Rust, Python, or others when TypeScript isn’t the best fit. • Mastery of PostgreSQL (or equivalent RDBMS), event-driven patterns (Kafka, NATS, or similar), and cloud-native infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure). • Track record embedding observability (structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics) and reliability engineering into everyday workflows. • Comfort running monorepos and designing build pipelines that support hundreds of daily deploys. • Hands-on experience integrating LLM or AI services into production systems is a strong plus. • Proven ability to mentor, influence, and communicate – whether in design docs, Slack threads, or synchronous deep-dives.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage. • 401(k) with company match. • Clear promotion paths to Distinguished Engineer or Engineering Director.