Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Backend Developer

MCR is hiring a Software Engineer to join our Technology team in our New York City office. As one of the country's largest hotel owner-operators, MCR builds the in-house software that runs its portfolio — so you'll see your work used daily to support decision-making across hundreds of properties.

The Software Engineer role is designed to work with the Technology team in building in-house software solutions and business applications. The position is a "full-stack" role where the individual is responsible for user-interface development, backend coding, and database design. This role is ideal for an experienced developer with a proven track record building full-stack web applications.

A significant portion of the work involves building out API integrations and middleware applications that move data across the company and connect our hospitality, finance, and operations systems. Projects range broadly in scope and audience, including:

• Full-stack web applications deployed to over one hundred hotels across the portfolio
• Corporate web utilities used by internal teams
• An extensive fleet of API integrations powering BI tools, dashboards, and executive reporting

• Design, build, and ship new features end-to-end across the full stack
• Build and maintain API integrations and middleware connecting hospitality, finance, and operations systems
• Maintain, extend, and improve existing in-house applications
• Partner with stakeholders across Operations, Finance, and Revenue Management to translate business needs into reliable software
• Own projects from initial design through deployment, writing clean and maintainable code and making thoughtful trade-offs around performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability

• 4+ years writing object-oriented, testable PHP code
• 3+ years developing web-based user interfaces with ReactJS
• Experience using the Laravel PHP framework to develop full-stack web applications
• Experience using Tailwind CSS
• Experience architecting on top of Amazon Web Services

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker)
• A degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience