At Lighthouse, were on a mission to disrupt commercial strategy for the hospitality industry. Our innovative commercial platform takes the complexity out of data, empowering businesses with actionable insights, advanced pricing tools, and cutting edge business intelligence to unlock their full revenue potential. Backed by $370 million in series C funding and driven by an unwavering passion for growth, weve welcomed five companies into our journey and have surpassed $100 million in ARR in 2024. Our 700+ teammates span 35 countries and represent 34 nationalities. At Lighthouse, were more than just a workplace were a community. Collaborative, fun, and deeply committed, we work hard together to revolutionize the hospitality sector. Are you ready to join us and shine brighter in the industrys most exciting rocket ship? What you will do We are looking for a Lead Backend Engineer who is passionate about clean, readable, and scalable code, and can design comprehensive solutions that inspire others to build maintainable and scalable services. You will be responsible for building high performance APIs that transform terabytes of data into valuable insights that help over 100,000 hotels worldwide make well informed decisions. Your team works in close collaboration with our product team and a highly talented group of software engineers, DevOps engineers, and project managers to drive initiatives forward. In a fast growing scale up, priorities might shift from time to time. Youll gain experience and ownership in different domains depending on your ambition. Where you will have impact Work on new feature developments for our existing products as well as creating new products from scratch. Architect, code, and maintain existing & new Python/Go (micro )services. Deploy and monitor services in a reproducible and scalable way. Develop a high affinity with our various, often complex, datasets by crunching large amounts of data on the fly in API implementations and data processing jobs. Experiment with, think about and take ownership of a piece of our codebase/infrastructure and find ways to improve it, both in terms of performance/efficiency and structure/best practices. Ensure high quality deliverables through extensive testing as part of your development process. Be part of the product scrum teams, creating high performing and efficient APIs related to new feature developments. About our team The team builds and scales innovative pricing solutions that provide intelligent price recommendations for hoteliers, directly impacting revenue and profitability. They design, implement, and integrate the systems required to support these business critical processes and data flows. This involves architecting core abstractions (e.g., data and business modeling), backend components, and a service landscape that allows other engineering teams to efficiently build upon their work, ensuring the continued success of our most profitable products. Your future stakeholders a