Who are we:

AvantStay is a short-term, attainable property management company in the explosive $100+ billion dollar STR industry looking to provide world-class experiential accommodations for group travelers. The company has built a tech-enabled millennial hospitality brand to be the new standard for group-traveling experience, creating one-of-a-kind vacations experiences for people who are looking for more than the monotony of a hotel room and towards a much more personal home getaway.

What we are looking for...

We are looking for a brilliant developer who has the capacity and desire to help the engineering organization on a path to fast product cycles and exciting launches.

Ideal candidates will be experienced and passionate about building scalable backend technologies.

What you will do:

• Contribute to the vision and long-term strategy in your domain of expertise.
• Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate services that serve AvantStay customers.
• Drive good engineering practices within your team.
• Challenge yourself to keep growing as a senior developer.
• Identify, debug, and resolving complex production issues.

What you will bring...

• Functional programming experience, preferably with Scala and Cats;
• Ability to write clean, well structured, well tested, and reusable code;
• Deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions.
• Experience delivering distributed and high-volume backend services with high availability, low latency, and scalability;
• Have extensive experience working hands-on as a Software Engineer in an agile environment.
• Proactive communication;
• English fluency.

What you can expect from us...

This is a full-time remote position in a distributed team. We try to stay close to the Pacific Time Zone, but we are flexible.

• There are no residence or relocation requirements;
• 100% Scala code base;
• 100% FP code base (in transition from Monix to TF);
• Modern stack: aws, k8s, kafka, GraphQL, GraalVM etc;
• First mover mentality: we’d love to move to Scala3 as soon as possible.

Skills needed for the job:

Experience with the following stack:

• Cats/Cats-Effect
• Monix/Zio
• Sangria
• Http4s
• Sttp
• Quill

Equal Employment Opportunity:

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer- and celebrate our employees' differences,including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status. Different makes us better.