Engineering Manager - Fintech, Lodging

Overview

At HTS, we're rebuilding how travelers shop and book trips — and reshaping how hotel distributors, chains, and OTAs monetize flexibility. Hotels CFAR (Cancel For Any Reason) is one of HTS's fastest-growing fintech products: a cancellation service embedded directly into partner booking flows, letting travelers cancel for any reason and receive a refund, no questions asked. It's a B2B2C product — sold through partners, exercised by travelers, and powered by HTS.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, development, and rollout of the Hotels CFAR platform — including offer/pricing/order/exercise APIs, the merchandising and UI SDK layer, synthetic rate bundling, and the exercise/payout infrastructure
• Own partner integrations end-to-end: scope technical solutions, lead solutioning calls, design integration patterns, and partner with sales and Solutions to move partners from Discovery → Solutioning → Development → Live
• Drive the foundation work that lets us scale: partner management portal, configuration tooling, self-serve onboarding — the infrastructure that decouples partner growth from engineering headcount
• Be the senior technical voice in partner conversations — translate between partner engineering teams, our APIs, and our product strategy; own SLAs, performance, and partner-specific requirements
• Partner with Product, Risk/Pricing, Ops, and GTM to align engineering output to business outcomes: attach rate, contribution profit, partner launch velocity, and loss ratio
• Foster technical excellence — architecture reviews, mentorship, raising the bar on the senior ICs and tech leads on the team

Requirements

• Experience leading engineering teams building B2B/B2B2C platforms with real, named external partners on the other side — not just internal stakeholders
• A strong technical background across backend systems (APIs, orchestration, distributed systems), frontend SDKs / embedded UI, and cloud infrastructure
• Direct experience as a partner/customer-facing technical leader — running solutioning calls, scoping integrations, owning SLAs, and unblocking deployments
• Comfort with fintech, insurance-adjacent, or transactional products — money movement, refunds, pricing engines, contracts, audit trails
• Experience with Scala or Java, REST APIs, OAuth2.0, and cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS); frontend exposure (React, JS/TS) for SDK and merchandising work

Qualifications

• A collaborative, product-minded approach — able to partner closely with Sales, Product, Risk, and Ops without losing engineering rigor
• A bias for action and a passion for mentoring and growing senior engineering talent

Benefits

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages
• Unlimited PTO
• Carrot Cash travel stipend
• Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend
• Very generous parental leave, much above industry standards
• Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business
• Open communication with management and company leadership
• Small, dynamic teams = massive impact
• 100% employer paid Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for employees
• Access to Disability & Life insurance
• Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• DCA/ FSA and access to 401k plan

Pay

Competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages

Schedule

Remote work option available