Forward Deployed Engineer (Integrations)

Company: estaie – AI-Native Extended-Stay Platform

Location: Remote (Global / MENA time zone alignment preferred)

Employment Type: Full-time

Reports To: Head of Engineering

estaie is building an AI-native extended-stay platform for 15–365 day stays, connecting hotels, holiday homes, channel managers, payment providers, and other travel systems through intelligent inventory, pricing, search, and distribution infrastructure.

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer – Integrations to build and deploy solutions across the estaie platform, with a strong focus on third-party integrations and partner-facing technical challenges.

You will work across frontend, backend, databases, APIs, infrastructure, and AI while working closely with partners, product, sales, and engineering teams.

You will take ownership from solution design → development → integration → deployment → production.

• Build and maintain integrations with channel managers, PMSs, booking platforms, payment providers, and other third-party APIs.
• Develop production applications and services using Next.js, React, TypeScript, NestJS, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
• Design robust API integrations covering authentication, webhooks, data transformation, retries, rate limiting, idempotency, and error handling.
• Work directly with partners and customers to understand technical requirements and troubleshoot integration issues.
• Build data synchronization, transformation, and reconciliation workflows across external systems.
• Develop asynchronous and event-driven workflows using queues and messaging systems.
• Build internal tools and partner-facing solutions to improve onboarding and operational efficiency.
• Integrate AI/LLM capabilities and automation into product and integration workflows.
• Deploy, monitor, debug, and continuously improve production systems.
• Contribute to architecture, testing, code reviews, and engineering standards.

• 4+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Strong experience with TypeScript, including React/Next.js and Node.js/NestJS.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, webhooks, authentication, data transformation, and third-party integrations.
• Solid experience with PostgreSQL and familiarity with Redis, queues, or event-driven systems.
• Good understanding of transactions, concurrency, idempotency, retries, and fault tolerance.
• Experience with Docker and cloud-based deployment environments.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across multiple systems.
• Comfortable working directly with customers, partners, and external engineering teams.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-moving startup environment and take ownership from idea to production.

• Experience with Kafka/Redpanda, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, BullMQ, or Turborepo.
• Experience in hospitality, travel, fintech, e-commerce, marketplaces, or other integration-heavy businesses.
• Experience with payment integrations, reservation systems, or inventory distribution.
• Experience with LLMs, AI agents, vector search, or AI automation.
• Experience with GCP, Cloud Run, or Kubernetes.

• High ownership: Own problems end-to-end and see your work directly reach production.
• Real-world complexity: Work with partners and systems across the global hospitality ecosystem.
• Modern technology: Work with TypeScript, Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, event-driven architecture, and AI.
• Direct impact: Build solutions that directly improve how estaie connects inventory, partners, and customers.
• Remote-first: Flexible environment with preference for MENA time-zone alignment.

You enjoy building, debugging, integrating, and shipping. You don't wait for perfectly defined requirements, you understand the problem, figure out the solution, and make it work in production.

If you are a strong engineer who enjoys working directly with partners and solving complex integration problems, this role is for you.