Build and maintain scalable full‑stack applications for hotel customers, write clean maintainable code, collaborate with product and engineering peers, mentor engineers, participate in code reviews, and drive product improvements with minimal direction.
About Us
Canary Technologies is changing the game for hotels with modern software powered by Canary's hospitality-specific AI platform.
Canary is utilized by 20,000+ hoteliers in 100+ countries to equip hoteliers with the technology they need to work smarter and wow their guests. Major hotel brands such as Wyndham, Marriott, IHG, Four Seasons, Rosewood, and Best Western trust Canary to deliver results.
Canary was named a 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ company, a Most Innovative Company by Fast Company and a HotelTechReport Best Place to Work — and is backed by top Silicon Valley investors like Y Combinator, F-Prime, Brighton Park Capital and Insight Partners.
Join us in shaping the future of hospitality!
About the Role
You should be a strong IC that can deal with ambiguity, and understand what it takes to build quality, maintainable full-stack applications. You should also care deeply about the customer experience and work closely with Product Managers to inform product decision making. The services built and owned by your team will have to operate at large scale and hence passion and discipline around operational excellence is essential.
Responsibilities
- You'll collaborate with a team of engineers and managers to create applications used by our hotel customers around the world
- Write clean, self-documenting code that follows best practices and design patterns using agentic development flows
- Provide creative ideas to improve our product and technology
- Think beyond the specifics of a ticket in order to delight customers and grow the business
- Effective in 1:1 mentoring and active in code reviews. Advises tech lead on technical decisions
- Be a self-starter that can deal with ambiguity, take initiative, and execute on projects with little direction
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience
- Solid knowledge of developing backend applications
- Experience with Javascript and common front-end frameworks such as VueJS or ReactJS
- Have a strong demonstrated ability to ship high-quality products
- Self-motivated, collaborative, and diligent work ethic
We also work hard to ensure Canary is a fun and exciting place to work! Here are some of the additional benefits:
Canary Days: As a company we want to ensure that the team has time to recharge. Each month we provide company wide days off to ensure there is at least one extended weekend or day off.
Self Improvement Club: We meet each month and share our personal goals for the month. Each individual is provided a budget towards any purchases that help us achieve these goals.
Professional Development Chats: We provide budget to help drive cross functional professional development conversations across the organization.
Travel Reimbursement: Team members are able to visit our offices across New York, San Francisco or Dallas when they choose, and are provided a travel stipend for doing so. Spend time working with the team in their office, and use the rest of your time exploring a new city!
Personal Travel Reimbursement: If you stay at a hotel that Canary works with, we provide a credit towards your stay.
Canary Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote talent regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other protected characteristic.
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