Hostaway
SaaS • Travel • Real Estate
Hostaway is a comprehensive vacation rental management software that assists property managers in streamlining and automating every aspect of their business. Founded in 2015, the company offers a range of features to enhance property management efficiency, including channel management, automated messaging, dynamic pricing, and financial tracking. Hostaway integrates with major online travel agencies like Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking. com, and provides a centralized dashboard for managing bookings, guest communications, and operations. Known for its robust API, Hostaway enables custom integrations and is trusted by thousands of property managers globally. It boasts award-winning 24/7 customer support and a suite of tools designed to scale with businesses from a few to thousands of listings. Hostaway is ideal for vacation rental managers looking to expand their reach, increase bookings, and optimize their property management processes.
Principal Engineer
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June 25
Hostaway
SaaS • Travel • Real Estate
Hostaway is a comprehensive vacation rental management software that assists property managers in streamlining and automating every aspect of their business. Founded in 2015, the company offers a range of features to enhance property management efficiency, including channel management, automated messaging, dynamic pricing, and financial tracking. Hostaway integrates with major online travel agencies like Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking. com, and provides a centralized dashboard for managing bookings, guest communications, and operations. Known for its robust API, Hostaway enables custom integrations and is trusted by thousands of property managers globally. It boasts award-winning 24/7 customer support and a suite of tools designed to scale with businesses from a few to thousands of listings. Hostaway is ideal for vacation rental managers looking to expand their reach, increase bookings, and optimize their property management processes.
📋 Description
• Hostaway is the market-leading SaaS scale-up transforming the vacation rental industry. • Our platform powers a global customer base, handling millions of transactions, integrating with industry giants like Airbnb & Expedia, and driving the future of short term rental tech. • With $365M recently invested, we’re scaling fast—breaking down our monolithic architecture, designing for next-level scalability, reliability, and innovation. • As Principal Engineer, you'll be at the heart of this transformation, shaping how our platform evolves to support hundreds of integrations, complex workflows, and a rapidly growing customer base. • If solving deep complex engineering challenges at scale excites you, let’s talk.
🎯 Requirements
• 10+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years in a leadership role • Expert-level proficiency in a Backend programming language, we use PHP • Familiarity with transitioning event-driven service-oriented architectures by applying Domain Driven Design (DDD) principles • Strong understanding of both relational (MySQL) as well as no-SQL data stores (like DynamoDB or ElasticSearch), data modeling and optimization techniques • Knowledge of containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Fargate) and the associated ecosystem • Experience with event-streaming platforms like Kafka or Kinesis • Extensive experience with AWS services and cloud architecture • Proven track record of leading and mentoring cross-functional engineering teams • Experience with Agile methodologies and CI/CD practices • Solid understanding of software design patterns and architectural distributed computing principles • Experience with working in SaaS product companies • Nice to have skills for this role: • Experience with front-end engineering (e.g., ReactJS, NextJS, TailwindUI and similar) • Experience with performance monitoring and optimisation tools • Understanding of security best practices in web applications • Experience with scalability challenges in high-growth environments • Knowledge of machine learning and AI concepts • Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) • The ability to exert Extreme Programming values & techniques to the team
🏖️ Benefits
• Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant. • 100% Remote: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence—be it a co-working space, your home office, or even your dining room table. The choice is yours. Just don’t ask to work in our office (we don’t have one). • Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company. This ensures we all share in the company’s success. • Values-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are not just words we’ve written to make us feel good. We leverage them daily when making strategic and tactical decisions. • Professional Growth: Our rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities, along with a multitude of career advancement opportunities. • Annual Paid Leave: The specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms. • Geographic Specific Benefits: As an international employer, we offer different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary. The specifics depend on the country of the applicant. • Dynamic Team Culture: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity, providing a key pillar to our success (and making it a lot of fun to work here).
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