Senior Backend Engineer (Booking Integrations, Contract)

Aescape is a body intelligence company delivering Adaptive Body Therapy, powered by physical AI and robotics. Each session listens to your body and adapts to it in real time, releasing the tension that builds from work, training, travel and everyday life. Members choose their focus, adjust pressure as they go, and see results build with consistent use. Every table evolves through over-the-air software updates, so the experience keeps getting better. Find Aescape at 150+ leading fitness, hospitality and wellness destinations across the US.
Aescape is headquartered in New York and is backed by Valor Equity Partners, BroadLight Capital and Mecha Ventures, alongside seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady, an investor and strategic partner.

Aescape is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Booking Integrations, Contract) who can stand up and ship the services that connect Aescape to third-party booking platforms. You will set up the infrastructure for our third-party integration services, build three third-party booking platform integrations, and leave behind a setup that is easy to maintain. This is a full-time contract engagement of 4 to 6 months with the possibility of extension or conversion to full time.

This role requires availability in core business hours Eastern Time (11am to 5pm ET) for candidates based anywhere in the US.

• Review Aescape’s service and infrastructure templates and set up a skeleton service that follows our template Go service and best practices

• Set up the infrastructure for running the third-party integration services so ongoing maintenance stays light

• Implement each booking platform integration within this infrastructure, communicating with Aescape’s general third-party booking integration service (3 total third-party platforms in this contract)

• Work actively with the Aescape backend and infrastructure teams, giving feedback that improves the Aescape API and infrastructure template

• Set up an infrastructure maintenance plan and hand off the work at the end of the engagement

• Potential for future work: fixing integrations when third parties introduce breaking API changes, adding more booking providers, priority consideration when expanding the full-time roles on the backend team

• 5+ years of backend engineering, with recent production Golang experience

• Experience building and shipping third-party API integrations in production, ideally booking, scheduling, payments or CRM systems

• Experience taking a service from skeleton to production and handing it off with clear documentation

• Comfort working with vendor APIs that are inconsistent or thinly documented

• Experience with AWS and infrastructure setup for backend services

• A track record of working independently, as a contractor or in a role with high ownership

• Ability to work up to 40 hours per week and availability in core business hours Eastern Time (11am to 5pm ET)

• Based in the United States and able to work as a 1099 independent contractor

Compensation: $150 per hour as a 1099 independent contractor, for an engagement of 4 to 6 months.

Aescape is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. The salary range listed above is a good-faith estimate provided in accordance with New York City's pay transparency law.

We’re building a new category: body intelligence, delivered through Adaptive Body Therapy. We’re looking for people who are driven, resourceful and eager to learn, who bring different perspectives, and who care about work that makes a real difference for the people we serve. If that sounds like you, we’d like to hear from you.