Staff Software Engineer

Rezdy is a company dedicated to reshaping the tours, activities, and experiences industry through innovative technology. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Checkfront team, focusing on maintaining and improving their SaaS platform while delivering high-quality work and ensuring the platform's health and stability.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership on maintenance, reliability, performance, and product development work
• Partner with Product to understand requirements, clarify technical constraints, and shape implementation plans
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand customer pain points, production issues, and operational risks
• Improve delivery quality through better patterns, thoughtful code review, clearer technical plans, and stronger rollout practices
• Identify opportunities to improve testability, observability, reliability, and maintainability
• Help the team reduce technical debt incrementally without disrupting ongoing product delivery
• Mentor other engineers through technical guidance, pairing, code review, and design discussions
• Contribute to process improvements that help the team plan, deliver, and operate more effectively over time

Requirements:

• Have significant experience as a senior or staff-level software engineer on product-focused teams
• Are comfortable working in large, mature, or complex codebases
• Know how to make incremental improvements that reduce risk and improve maintainability over time
• Can balance customer needs, business priorities, technical debt, and delivery risk
• Care deeply about reliability, performance, testability, and operational quality
• Can create technical clarity from complex systems, unclear boundaries, and imperfect abstractions
• Communicate clearly and directly with engineers, product managers, support teams, and other stakeholders
• Can use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully and effectively while maintaining strong engineering judgement
• Can help improve team process without being dogmatic about methodology
• Lead through influence, example, and technical credibility rather than authority
• Enjoy mentoring other engineers and helping a team raise its overall level of execution
• Are pragmatic, steady, and thoughtful when working on business-critical systems
• Experience in booking, ecommerce, travel, tours and activities, or other operationally complex domains
• Experience modernizing older systems incrementally while continuing to ship customer-facing work
• Strong PHP experience in production environments
• Strong experience with React, Postgres, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling
• Experience improving test coverage, deployment confidence, incident response, or production diagnostics