Peek is the operating system powering the experiences industry
- from museums and attractions to tours and activities. The company has raised over $150 million from institutional investors Westcap, Goldman Sachs, and SpringCoast Partners. As a remote-first company recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Startup Employers and by Built In as a *
* and *
* Best Place to Work, we are a general team of "Peeksters" who "Obsess Over Our Customers," "Accomplish Big Things," "Collaborate With Purpose," and "Get Better Every Day. The work is technically varied and the stakes are real: operators depend on this software to run their businesses. We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer with strong technical depth who is also highly effective with AI-assisted development. You reason independently about complex systems, find the problems that aren't obvious from the requirements, and use AI as a tool to build faster while owning every decision it informs. You'll join the platform team, working deep in our existing systems, including ACME Core, to make other teams faster and safer, using AI-assisted development as a force multiplier for your engineering judgment, not a replacement for it. The platform team works closely with DevOps, who own our infrastructure, so this is a backend-focused role rather than an infrastructure one. We're adapting our engineering practice to match, and we want strong backend engineers who are already building this way and excited to push it further. Work as part of the platform team, improving the backend systems, tooling, and practices that other teams build on.



Feature development is still part of the role where it fits. Own security fixes and dependency updates across our backend systems: triage vulnerabilities, plan and ship upgrades safely in an existing codebase, and make sure they don't break the teams and services that depend on them. Identify and diagnose performance bottlenecks, and recognize scalability limits before they become production problems. Own your services in production: monitoring, debugging, performance, and reliability. When something breaks, you get to root cause and fix it properly. it does not replace technical judgment. 5+ years of professional backend development using Java, with a meaningful track record of shipping and operating production systems. Strong backend fundamentals: Deep understanding of database behavior: data modeling, query design, indexing, and the performance implications of your choices. Proven ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks and debug complex production issues to root cause, including problems that aren't obvious from the requirements. Hands-on, daily use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or equivalent) in a production engineering workflow,



as a force multiplier on top of strong fundamentals. Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated code: catch logic errors, identify security issues, assess maintainability, and own what gets merged regardless of how it was written. Interest in Elixir or functional programming languages as we expand our stack Experience building B2B SaaS products, ideally with complex multi-tenant data models or transactional workflows. Familiarity with frontend development and JavaScript/TypeScript (Angular or modern JS frameworks), enough to collaborate effectively with frontend engineers and understand how your APIs are consumed. We value engineers who understand how systems actually behave: databases, concurrency, failure modes, and performance. it doesn't replace it. What differentiates engineers now isn't typing speed or memorized syntax, it's the ability to make the right calls on what to build, how to build it, and when it's not ready to ship. You built it? You own it. You know when to use agents and when to do it yourself. We want people who ask hard questions, surface problems early, and are willing to push back on a bad spec rather than build it and hope for the best. Quality as a habit. Peer code reviews, test coverage, and clean APIs are not optional. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

📌 Senior Engineer, Backend Engineering (Quintana Roo)
🏢 PEEK
📍 Quintana Roo