Senior / Staff Backend Engineer

About Wander Wander is revolutionizing the $100 B+ short‑term rental industry. We curate every aspect of the guest experience—from our smart homes to our intuitive booking platform. Our mission is to help people find their happy place, and our vision is to create the infrastructure for people to experience the world. Backed by top‑tier investors and led by experienced startup veterans, we're a tight‑knit, remote‑first team united by our passion for travel, technology, and creating unforgettable experiences. Backend Engineer, WanderOS San Francisco or Austin Engineering Full-time About Wander Wander is building the infrastructure to experience the world. WanderOS is our "Shopify for hospitality": the platform property managers use to run direct-booking sites, sync inventory from their PMS, take payments, and manage guests. It is the fastest-growing part of Wander and the system every other product now runs on. The role You will own backend services at the core of WanderOS: PMS integrations and sync, availability and pricing pipelines, booking and payments, and the APIs that power host dashboards and every direct-booking site we deploy. This is high-leverage, high-ownership work. Bugs here mean a host loses a booking, so correctness and observability matter as much as speed. What you'll do Design and ship TypeScript services and APIs that handle bookings, quotes, availability, payouts, and site provisioningBuild and harden PMS integrations (Guesty, Hostaway, OwnerRez, Lodgify, Streamline, Track, Escapia, and more), including webhooks, rate-limit handling, and reconciliationScale ingestion and sync pipelines that process hundreds of thousands of availability records per hour without drift or double-bookingsModel data in Postgres with Prisma; use Redis, Kafka, and Temporal for queues, caching, and durable workflowsOwn reliability end to end: alerting, tracing, runbooks, and on-call for the services you shipWork directly with hosts, ops, and sales to turn real customer pain into shipped fixes, often the same weekUse AI tooling aggressively in your workflow, and write code and tests that hold up when a large share of the codebase is AI-assisted What we're looking for 4+ years building production backend systems, with deep Node.js and TypeScript experienceStrong relational data modeling and SQL (Postgres preferred), plus ORM experience such as PrismaExperience with third-party API integrations at scale: pagination, rate limits, retries, idempotency, eventual consistencyComfort with async/event-driven architecture (queues, streams, workflow engines)A product mindset. You care about the host and guest outcome, not just the ticketThrives async and remote, with written communication to match. We do not do meetings Why Wander Small, senior, team with real ownership and no meeting culture. Competitive salary plus meaningful equity, 100% covered medical/dental/vision, 401(k), and stays at Wander homes.