Lead Engineer

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

We're looking for a Lead Engineer to join our team to enable Canary's next phase of growth, with a focus on expanding in APAC. You should be a strong technical leader that can deal with ambiguity, be able to define and guide our future architecture, and mentor engineers. 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 you will have to operate at a large scale and hence passion and discipline around operational excellence are essential.

• Directly manage a pod of engineers responsible for accelerating Canary's growth in APAC
• Set an example as an IC in terms of both the quality and velocity of code that you ship
• Think about overall architecture and own its evolution based on engineering and product needs
• Understand metrics and how our customers use our products, strong voice on product decisions and prioritization
• Independently mentor and advise engineers in a pod
• Build engineering execution plans, breakdown and assign work to engineers in the pod
• Run pod processes autonomously and escalate appropriately when required
• Participate in hiring and interviewing

• 5-8+ years of a strong engineering background including being in IC engineering role
• 3+ years of proven experience of leading successful engineering teams
• Solid knowledge of developing backend applications
• Have a strong demonstrated ability to ship high-quality products
• Self-motivated, collaborative, and diligent work ethic
• Excellent communication skills. You love being part of a diverse team, building consensus, and establishing credibility. You are a Class-A communicator: curious, thoughtful, clear, and (mostly) correct
• Comfort with ambiguity and is eager to embrace ownership and accountability
• Bonus: Strong Vue / TypeScript experience and strong Django / Python experience

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.