Principal Engineer

We're Hiring: Staff/Principal Engineer (Java) - Remote Location: Remote | Global Team | Experience: 8–12 years Ready to build the future of hotel distribution at scale? At Hotel Trader, we're not just another travel-tech company—we're the cloud-native B2B platform revolutionizing how hotels connect with global demand. Backed by Highgate Technology Ventures and founded by serial travel-tech entrepreneurs, we're scaling fast and building something extraordinary. The Scale We Operate At • 1B+ search requests per day • 40ms average response time • 200M+ inbound messages daily • Live integrations with Hilton, Highgate, Wyndham (expanding rapidly across US & Europe) Our Growth Story In just 18 months, we've: • Tripled our team size • Achieved 100% YoY revenue growth • Scaled globally with real revenue traction ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What You'll Do As a Staff/Principal Engineer, you'll be our technical backbone—a hands-on leader who drives by doing: Architecture & Systems • Drive system design and platform architecture decisions • Build scalable, resilient systems using Java (Spring Boot) and event-driven architectures • Solve real-time, high-throughput challenges in search, pricing, and booking workflows Leadership & Delivery • Own end-to-end delivery of critical initiatives from design to deployment • Lead multiple high-impact projects simultaneously • Mentor teams while solving the most complex, ambiguous technical challenges Innovation • Embrace AI-powered development (Claude, Cursor) to boost productivity • Build automation-first solutions and internal platforms • Focus on performance optimization and low-latency system design ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Our Tech Stack Backend: Java (Spring Boot), Microservices, AWS ECS, ScyllaDB, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis Platform: AWS, Docker, CI/CD, GitHub Actions Data & AI (Good to have) : Databricks, Spark, Claude, LangGraph, RAG pipelines Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What We're Looking For Must-Have: • 8-12 years backend development experience • Deep Java expertise (Spring Boot, Hibernate) • Hands-on developer who can code, architect, and lead by example • Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining quality and timelines • Strong collaboration skills with stakeholders - Product teams, Clients, and Cross-functional tech teams • Distributed systems experience with event-driven architectures • NoSQL databases (ScyllaDB, MongoDB) • Performance optimization and latency tuning skills • Ownership mindset with proven track record of delivering mission-critical projects Bonus Points: • LLM pipelines, RAG, or agentic AI experience • Databricks, Spark, or large-scale data processing • Travel-tech or B2B marketplace background • Full-stack experience with React ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Why Join Hotel Trader? Impact: Shape a high-GMV, global-scale B2B platform transforming an entire industry Tech: Work with cutting-edge stack including ScyllaDB, Kafka, AWS, AI tools, and more Culture: Remote-first, ownership-heavy environment where engineering excellence is non-negotiable Growth: Join during our rapid expansion phase and grow with us ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ready to build the next generation of hotel distribution? Interested? Drop me a message or apply directly - let's chat about how you can help us scale to the next level Share this post if you know someone who'd be a great fit #hiring #java #distributedsystems #microservices #remotework #traveltech #engineerjobs #scaleup #seniordeveloper #principalengineer Hotel Trader is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.