Job Title: Principal Backend Engineer
Help shape the future of global travel technology.
* Luxury Escapes is one of the world's fastest-growing travel companies, with over 8 million members.
We were recently awarded the National Travel Industry Award for Most Outstanding Online Travel Agency - and we're just getting started.
Our mission is to delight our customers with incredible deals for the world's best holidays.
We are a collective of forward-thinking people, driven to challenge the travel industry and ourselves to bring outstanding travel experiences to our customer community.
Our Sydney office is on Kent Street - a short walk from Wynyard station and close to great cafes in Barangaroo.
Luxury Escapes is an in-person company.
We work and collaborate together, face to face in our Barangaroo office.
About this Role:
* As a Principal Backend Engineer, you'll work on high-impact initiatives that span teams and business units.
* You'll guide architecture decisions, lead complex systems design, and bring deep backend expertise to projects that touch everything from finance to customer service to infrastructure.
Potential Projects You Could Tackle:
* Finance Platform from the Ground Up: Help build a new financial system to power our core business operations.
What You'll Do:
* Define and drive technical strategy and architecture for complex, business-critical systems.
* Design and lead the implementation of scalable, resilient backend services.
* Collaborate across product, data, and engineering teams to align tech solutions with business goals.
* Solve large-scale backend challenges involving data integrity, latency, throughput, and observability.
About You:
* Extensive experience with backend development (JavaScript/TypeScript preferred, but not required).
* Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and microservices.
* Strong knowledge of database design, performance tuning, and data consistency strategies.
Benefits:
* Excellent Remuneration package.
* 20% Discount on Luxury Holidays and Experiences.
* Breakfast and lunch are provided 5-days a week.
* Health and Well-being programs.
* 1/2 day of bonus birthday leave.
We embrace diversity in our people and make hiring decisions based on your experiences and skills.