Job Description
At Evolve, we're on a mission to make vacation rental easy for everyone. Our high-performing, customer-obsessed team runs on curiosity, communication, and accountability—working together to create exceptional experiences for our owners and guests.
**Why this role**
We're looking for a creative and highly motivated Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our backend team to help us build, innovate, and maintain our integrations with our distribution partners. In this role, you will help plan and execute special projects while supporting ongoing cross-functional operations. Whether a bug fix or an awesome feature, you will own your work and deliver the most effective and scalable solutions. You will work closely with our Product Team and other cross-functional development teams to design and implement world-class solutions. The ideal candidate for this role is technically savvy, analytical, and process-oriented. You must anticipate and embrace the challenge of solving critical business problems in a fast-paced environment.
**What you'll do**
- Build and maintain our APIs and integrations with upstream and downstream consumers in mind
- Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in backend development tools and technologies
- Lead ecosystem-level design reviews, perform architecture reviews, and write technical documentation in collaboration with peers
- Drive improvements to system reliability, observability, monitoring, and testability
- Work directly with an Engineering Manager and Product Manager(s) to clearly understand the problem being solved
- Collaborate with stakeholders from internal operations teams as well as external integration partners
- Effectively debug high complexity multi-system problems and come up with good-better-best solutions
- Execute on engineering and release priorities successfully through strong leadership and communication
- Drive code reviews and collaborate with other team members on coding standards and best practices, third-party integrations, and other backend development processes
- Guide and mentor less experienced developers on best practices and operational excellence
**What makes you a great fit**
- 5+ years of backend development experience building applications.