Stealth Technology Startup): Lead Software Engineer

Perfect (Stealth Technology Startup):
Lead Software Engineer

We’re a funded, stealth startup modernizing overlooked assets within the hospitality industry.

We’re putting together a distributed, low-headcount, founding software engineering team. This team will work directly with and report to our CTO (who has extensive venture building experience).

If you’re a high-impact, low-ego contributor who:

• ships performant code with predictable operating characteristics,
• has been more than “just tinkering” with LLMs and codegen, and
• can work 4+ hours overlapped with UTC-04:00…

…we’d love to hear from you.

Note: we care more about demonstrable talent than “perfect” candidates who checks all the boxes below. If this describes you, we very much encourage you to apply.

• Build our core platform from the ground up
• Design APIs and data models that power seamless integrations with hospitality systems
• Implement AI-driven features using LLMs and modern ML tooling
• Own end-to-end delivery from requirements through production
• Collaborate closely with our CTO and founding team
• Research and evaluate and experiment with new technologies and tools

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Production experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization
• Database and data modeling skills both relational and non-relational
• API development experience with REST and RPC
• Some hands-on experience and strong opinions (weakly held) about
  LLMs and automated code gen as part of a modern software engineering team

• Founding team mentality
  – you thrive in ambiguous, rapidly-changing environments
• Systems thinking
  – you consider scalability, maintainability, and operational concerns from day one
• Communication skills
  – you can explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Self-directed
  – you can work independently while staying aligned with team goals
• Quality-focused
  – you produce maintainable, well-tested code
• Ownership mindset
  – you keep user needs top-of-mind and own the outcome

• Experience in hospitality and travel (e.g., integrations with OHIP, MEWS, etc.)
• Dev Ops and infrastructure automation experience
• Open source contributions or technical writing
• Previous startup experience, especially at the founding stage
• Experience with real-time systems or event-driven architectures

We’re building with modern, proven technologies. No decisions have been made yet.

• We prefer full-time work arrangements, but can be flexible for the right candidates.
• We encourage applicants at all levels of their software development journey to apply.
• Compensation is competitive—it is based on your skills, location, and commitment level.