Staff Software Engineer

• →Lead end-to-end development of user-facing features across web and backend systems
• →Champion back-end architecture, performance, and accessibility best practices
• →Collaborate with product managers and designers to translate customer needs into thoughtful, scalable solutions
• →Drive technical decision-making and execution on complex initiatives
• →Contribute to and shape our engineering standards, architecture, and tooling
• →Mentor other engineers and contribute to the growth of engineering culture and technical excellence
• →Balance delivery speed and quality, making pragmatic choices around trade-offs
• →Help evolve our backend infrastructure and testing strategies

Our job descriptions evolve with our business needs and priorities. Your role may include other tasks, projects, and team support.

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including leadership on high-impact projects
• Proven ability to ship production features end-to-end, including frontend UI, APIs, and backend services
• Deep expertise in modern back-end technologies (Java or Kotlin with SpringBoot, Node.js, GraphQL/REST APIs, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, cloud platforms)
• Full-stack fluency, including experience with frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, JavaScript)
• Proven ability to drive technical direction and architecture in cross-functional settings across multiple teams
• Strong product sense and empathy for end users
• Experience mentoring engineers and helping grow technical capabilities on a team
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, iterative environments with evolving requirements

• Experience with large-scale infrastructure
• Track record of delivering consumer-scale web applications
• Familiarity with experimentation, analytics, and product iteration cycles
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and production readiness best practices

How we work and who we are comes down to six guiding principles. These are the principles we hire for and hold ourselves to:

• Customer obsession: Our customers' needs come first. Not eventually, not when it's convenient. Every decision runs through one question: does this make things better for the people who depend on us?
• Take action, forge solutions: When there's a problem, we don't wait for permission to solve it. We move with urgency, think past the obvious fix, and build something that holds.
• Be candid, yet respectful: Say what you think. Name the problem. Challenge the idea. We don't do polite silence, but we also don't do cheap shots. Honest, direct, respectful.
• Disagree, then commit: The best decisions come from real debate. Say what you think, even if it's uncomfortable. Once we decide, we move together.
• Be audacious, learn loudly: Take the big swings our mission demands, treat every outcome as impact or a lesson, and share what you learn openly so the whole company grows stronger.
• Strive for excellence: We don't settle at "done." We ask whether it's right, whether it's better than last time, and whether it's something we'd be proud to put in front of a customer.

AI is a core skill. The people who thrive here are curious, take ownership, and use AI to compound their thinking, not replace it.

RentSpree has teams in the US and Bangkok. Collaboration across that distance requires a shared window: Monday-Thursday, 5–7pm PT / 7-9am ICT. How often you're in SpreeHours depends on your role, team, and projects. Any SpreeHours you work, you take back as flex time the same week. Outside of SpreeHours, your schedule is yours.

If you take ownership, move with urgency, and want to work on problems that matter, we'd love to hear from you. You don't need to meet every requirement. If this feels like the right place to do your best work, reach out.

RentSpree is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. This applies to all employment practices, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Hiring decisions are made on qualifications, merit, and business need.

We're always on the lookout for talented people. If you don't see a fit today, apply to Future Opportunities and we'll reach out when something matching your background opens up.