Principal Engineer

We're Hiring: Staff/Principal Engineer (Java) - Remote Location: Remote | Global Team | Experience: 8–12 yearsReady 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 StoryIn just 18 months, we've:• Tripled our team size• Achieved 100% YoY revenue growth• Scaled globally with real revenue traction━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What You'll DoAs 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 workflowsLeadership & 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 challengesInnovation• 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 StackBackend: Java (Spring Boot), Microservices, AWS ECS, ScyllaDB, MongoDB, Kafka, RedisPlatform: AWS, Docker, CI/CD, GitHub ActionsData & AI (Good to have) : Databricks, Spark, Claude, LangGraph, RAG pipelinesObservability: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What We're Looking ForMust-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 projectsBonus 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 industryTech: Work with cutting-edge stack including ScyllaDB, Kafka, AWS, AI tools, and moreCulture: Remote-first, ownership-heavy environment where engineering excellence is non-negotiableGrowth: 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 levelShare this post if you know someone who'd be a great fit #hiring #java #distributedsystems #microservices #remotework #traveltech #engineerjobs #scaleup #seniordeveloper #principalengineerHotel Trader is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.