Hybrid Senior Software Engineer, Profiles and Bookings

at RealSelf

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer, Profiles and Bookings
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $140,000 - $190,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Docker, GraphQL, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Node.js, TypeScript, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer owning backend architecture and API design for booking systems. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, high-performance systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead development and maintenance of backend services for booking, scheduling, provider profiles, search, and related domains.
• Architect a multi-tenant SaaS booking product for medspas/clinics with modular, extensible design (scheduling engine, calendar sync, payments, notifications, reporting, etc.).
• Ensure reliability, security, scalability, and performance across systems.
• Mentor, review code, do architectural reviews, and help grow backend engineers.
• Collaborate cross-functionally (frontend, product, design, ops) to turn product vision into reality.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party systems (e.g. calendar APIs, payment gateways, third-party booking tools) as necessary.
• Participate in roadmap planning, technical direction, tradeoffs, and product scoping.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Proven experience designing high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems in Node.js, TypeScript, or Go.
• Deep understanding of API design (REST, GraphQL, event-driven, webhooks).
• Experience building multi-tenant SaaS systems (isolation, provisioning, schema strategies, tenant onboarding).
• Proven experience designing and operating backend infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS (or equivalent cloud), CI/CD pipelines
• Strong observability skills: Metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, capacity planning, performance tuning.
• Expertise in security, authentication/authorization, and data privacy (HIPAA knowledge is a plus).
• Architectural and system design skills, with the ability to make tradeoffs, choose boundaries, and scale systems.
• Experience in mentoring, code review, architectural guidance, and helping other engineers level up.
• Proficiency in leveraging AI tools to accelerate code delivery and improve quality.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills; comfortable working in cross-functional environments.
• Demonstrated track record delivering backend systems end to end.