Senior Backend/Staff Engineer

Overview

Company name: Canary Technologies  | HQ Location: San Francisco, CA | Website | LinkedIn

Role: Senior Backend/Staff Engineer

• Salary: $90k per year
• Experience: 3+ years
• Location: Remote
• Type: Full-time

Canary Technologies is a fast-growing enterprise hospitality technology company that provides hotels with innovative solutions to drive efficiency and enhance the guest experience. Our core solutions get rid of antiquated technology in hotels. With backing from some of the top investors in Silicon Valley, including Y Combinator, Canary Technologies is trusted by thousands worldwide and serves some of the world’s largest and most iconic hotel brands.

About The Role

Our team is growing and we’re hiring multiple Senior Full Stack Engineers to join our engineering team and enable our next phase of growth. Canary's engineering team is fully remote!

You should be a strong IC that can deal with ambiguity, and understand what it takes to build quality, maintainable full-stack applications. You should also care deeply about the customer experience and work closely with Product Managers to inform product decision making. The services built and owned by your team will have to operate at large scale and hence passion and discipline around operational excellence is essential.

What You'll Do

1. You'll collaborate with a team of engineers and managers to create applications used by our hotel customers around the world
2. Write clean, self-documenting code that follows best practices and design patterns
3. Provide creative ideas to improve our product and technology
4. Think beyond the specifics of a ticket in order to delight customers or grow the business
5. Effective in 1:1 mentoring and active in code reviews. Advises tech lead on technical decisions
6. Be a self-starter that can deal with ambiguity, take initiative, and execute on projects with little direction

Minimum Qualifications

1. 3+ years of experience
2. Solid knowledge of developing backend applications
3. Experience with Javascript and common front-end frameworks such as ReactJS or VueJS
4. Have a strong demonstrated ability to ship high-quality products
5. Self-motivated, collaborative, and diligent work ethic

Bonus Points

1. Expert in Python with knowledge on at least one industry standard framework like Django, Flask, etc.
2. Experience using Docker and cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)
3. Experience with SQL databases and database design skills

Benefits

1. Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental and Vision)
2. Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) and Canary Days
3. Stock Option Plan
4. Flexibility to visit and travel to our offices (SF, NY or Dallas)
5. Paid Parental Leave
6. Discount on Canary hotels
7. A diverse, world-wide team

About us

Canary Technologies is a leader in hospitality software solutions, and is trusted by thousands of hotels worldwide. Canary's suite of solutions secure guest data, and enhance the guest experience. Canary's solutions include industry-leading Contactless Mobile Check-in, Digital Authorizations, Digital Contracts, and Digital Amenity Ordering. Canary's solutions help ensure PCI compliance and reduce chargebacks/fraud by up to 90%. Our team includes former hoteliers who understand the nuances of what goes on behind the scenes at the property and truly recognize the needs of hoteliers. Canary's solutions are trusted by tens of thousands of hoteliers worldwide.