Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Airbnb

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Unified Data Store (UDS) team is the architect of Airbnb’s global system-of-record. We design, build, and operate the mission-critical storage platform that powers every user profile, listing, reservation, and financial transaction on the platform. Supporting over 150 million users worldwide, our work is the bedrock of Airbnb’s reliability and efficiency. As a Staff Engineer in our Brazil Engineering Hub, you will join a high-impact group of technical leaders who value craft and operational excellence. You won't just be managing data; you will be building a modern distributed infrastructure service that enables hundreds of product teams to ship features with total confidence. The Difference You Will Make: We are looking for a hands-on technical leader who thrives on solving deep architectural challenges and leading through ambiguity. As a Staff Engineer, you will serve as the Technical North Star for the UDS Client Stack, ensuring our data access layer is seamless, high-performance, and future-proof. A Typical Day:  * Define Technical Strategy: Lead the multi-year roadmap and long-term architecture for the UDS client stack, balancing immediate execution with systemic platform evolution. * Architect for Scale: Design and operate a high-performance data access layer that abstracts complexities like indexing, replication, and global consistency models. * Drive Engineering Excellence: Lead deep-dive design reviews and establish best practices for building fault-tolerant distributed systems across the organization. * Empower Developers: Act as a bridge between infrastructure and product, creating a unified interface that simplifies how engineers interact with complex data systems. * Collaborate Globally: Partner with UDS and Data Infrastructure teams globally to align architecture, drive adoption, and deliver high-impact solutions. Your Expertise: * Experience: 9+ years of relevant industry experience, with a proven track record of operating at a Senior or Staff level in a high-growth environment. * Distributed Systems Mastery: Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, including storage internals, networking, and consistency models. * Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives, influence architectural decisions across multiple teams, and mentor senior talent. * Platform Mindset: A passion for building high-performance infrastructure services that prioritize developer experience and system reliability at scale. * Communication: Exceptional ability to articulate complex infrastructure challenges to both technical partners and internal customers. * Innovation: A strong interest in leveraging emerging technologies, including Applied AI, to optimize data management and system observability. Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging: Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

VTEX

ABOUT THE ROLE As a Staff Product Manager for Ads, you will play a key role in shaping VTEX’s Retail Media and Ads platform, helping build a scalable media hub that enables brands and industries to activate 360° media strategies directly within commerce experiences. This role focuses on Onsite Ads, where VTEX operates as a media buying engine, connecting advertisers, retailers, and shoppers across high-impact commerce touchpoints. You will lead the product vision and execution for a domain that already serves major global brands. With a strong focus on stakeholder management, strategy, and execution, you will ensure the Ads product evolves toward a 2026 vision, balancing short-term performance needs with long-term platform scalability — including the impact of LLMs and AI on the ads and retail media ecosystem. WHAT YOU WILL DO * Own and evolve the Onsite Ads product, acting as the guardian of its long-term vision and ensuring alignment with VTEX’s revenue and growth strategy. * Define and execute the product roadmap for the next 6–12 months, while shaping a clear and scalable 2026 vision for Retail Media at VTEX. * Translate complex customer and business needs into clear product priorities, ensuring visibility and alignment across Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Growth teams. * Work closely with advertisers, retailers, and internal stakeholders to balance performance, campaign needs, and platform evolution. * Partner with Engineering to deliver high-impact solutions, leveraging your technical background and understanding of ads and media systems. * Collaborate with Customer Success to improve how clients engage with the Ads product, clarifying ownership, flows, and expectations around product-related topics. * Evaluate and incorporate the impact of AI and LLMs on ads performance, campaign optimization, and media buying workflows. * Support internal team evolution, including collaboration with future PM roles. WHO YOU ARE * Experienced Product Manager with a proven track record in managing complex, large-scale ecosystems. * Proven ability to build and communicate product vision, translating strategy into execution in complex, multi-stakeholder environments. * Comfortable operating in a highly dynamic ecosystem involving advertisers, retailers, sales, customer success, and growth teams. * Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align competing priorities and drive decisions forward. * Curious and critical about the role of AI and LLMs in the future of ads, retail media, and commerce. * Fluent in english.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT VTEX VTEX (NYSE: VTEX) is the composable and complete commerce platform that delivers more efficiency and less maintenance to organizations seeking to make smarter IT investments and modernize their tech stack. Through our pragmatic composability approach, we empower brands, distributors, and retailers with unparalleled flexibility and comprehensive solutions, enabling them to invest solely in what provides a clear business advantage and boosts profitability. VTEX is trusted by 2,400 global B2C and B2B customers, including Carrefour, Colgate, Motorola, Sony, Stanley Black & Decker, and Whirlpool, having 3,400 active online stores across 43 countries (as of FY ended on December 31, 2024).Founded in the year 2000, VTEX has a history of being unstoppable. Completely against the odds, VTEX is leading a high-tech industry and positioned above market giants. We are building an extraordinary future with more than 1,300 employees scattered across 25 locations in 16 countries in Latin America, North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.vtex.com. At VTEX, you will work in a challenge-driven environment and collaborate with amazing peers. If you are powerful individually, join us, and we will be unstoppable together.  BENEFITS * Annual profit-sharing program and equity eligibility * Health, dental, and life insurance with national coverage provided by VTEX * Annual budget for professional development in Tech * Language development incentive program (English, Spanish, Portuguese) * Flexible meal allowance * Extended parental leaves * Child-care assistance * Flexible work schedule and remote-first culture * Financial assistance to build your work-from-home setup * Wellness program * Free shipping on 1000+ VTEX stores #LI-remote

Engine

ABOUT ENGINE At Engine, we’re transforming business travel into something personalized, rewarding, and simple. For too long, managing travel and spend has been overwhelming and fragmented — we’re here to change that. We believe the future of travel should be seamless and powered by technology that delights customers at every step. That’s why we’re building a platform that brings together corporate travel, a powerful charge card, and modern spend management in one place. To make this vision real, we’re looking for exceptional, mission-driven people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel. More than 30,000 companies already rely on Engine to support over 1 million travelers and billions in annual bookings each year. Cash flow positive with rapid growth, we pair exclusive Engine-only rates, industry-leading rewards, and intelligent automation to help businesses save money while delivering world-class personalization and convenience. Backed by Telescope Partners, Blackstone, and Permira, Engine has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing travel and fintech platforms in North America, with honors including the Deloitte Fast 500 and Built In’s Best Places to Work. We are hiring for Staff Software Engineers, Backend, on multiple teams across our organization. Your application will be considered for any open positions that are a fit. Below the details of the role there is a short description of each team with an opening. YOUR MISSION As a Staff Software Engineer at Engine, you’ll play a vital role in an environment where innovation meets collaboration. Here’s what you’ll take charge of: * Design and Implement: Craft innovative software systems and APIs that contribute to the success of Engine’s mission, focusing on scalability, security, and performance. * Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product and Data Science, to unlock new opportunities and deliver seamless experiences for our customers. * Leadership: Mentor mid-to-senior level engineers, and lead efforts to ensure the quality, scalability, and robustness of our software. * Ownership: Lead key initiatives that improve efficiency, enhance system performance, and drive customer satisfaction. WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO ENGINE We’re looking for someone who’s ready to make an impact and grow alongside us: * Experience: 8+ years of hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available and high-performing distributed systems. You have a proven track record of building public-facing (consumer-grade) APIs and managing the complexities of versioning, deprecation, and consumption-based rate limiting. Experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Kotlin (or similar modern backend languages), and AWS is a plus. * Skills: You’re a problem-solver with a strong grasp of software design principles, scalability, and system architecture. You thrive in fast-paced, innovative environments and prioritize Domain-Driven Design. * Mindset: You’re ready to roll up your sleeves, collaborate, and deliver results that matter. Pricing Team The Pricing team builds the real-time systems that determine what every customer pays across our travel marketplace. We design and operate auction-based pricing engines, models informed by Machine Learning, and customer segmentation strategies — all running at scale across Lodging, Car Rentals, and Flights. Our work directly impacts conversion, revenue, and competitiveness, and the results are immediately measurable IDM Team The Identity Management team owns authentication and authorization for Hotel Engine's customers. We operate the Auth0 tenant, shape the login experience, and partner with enterprise customers to deliver secure, reliable identity integrations — so every traveler, admin, and partner can access the right things, at the right time, with confidence. Lodging Team The Lodging team owns the end-to-end traveler journey, from the first search through checkout and beyond. We build beautiful, intuitive interfaces that mask the immense complexity of global travel logistics, transforming intricate inventory data into a world-class booking experience. By managing the systems that support the entire booking life cycle, we ensure our customers have the seamless care and reliability they need at every step of their trip. PartnerHub Growth The PartnerHub Growth team manages the journey of supply partners as they discover and leverage our dedicated portal. We engineer the essential frameworks for onboarding, account architecture, and secure access control, and build the performance analytics partners use to understand how their listings perform on Engine — surfacing the moments where a deeper partnership or ad investment will pay off. Our mission is to transform initial supplier interest into lasting, high-value partnerships that drive the Engine ecosystem forward Compensation Our compensation packages are based on several factors, including your experience, expertise, and location. In addition to a competitive base salary, total compensation may include equity and/or variable pay (OTE). Your recruiter will share your complete compensation package as you move through the process. Base Pay Range $159,000—$220,000 USD The Engine Edge: Perks & Compensation We believe in rewarding great work with great benefits: * Compensation: Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity. * Benefits: Check out our full list at engine.com/culture. * Environments for Success: Different roles have different needs in terms of the environments that drive success which is why we have a hybrid-hub model. Whether you are in one of our amazing offices or fully remote, we’ll make sure you have what you need to succeed. Perks and benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and more. Ready to Build the Future of Work Travel? Join us on our mission to transform how work travel works—for businesses, for travelers, and for the industry. Apply now and let’s make travel simpler, smarter, and more enjoyable—together.