Senior Backend Engineer, Booking Platform

🕒 May 22

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Hostaway

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51 - 200 employees

☁️ SaaS

🏠 Real Estate

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

• Design, build, and operate backend services in PHP and Go that power the guest portal and direct sales site builder. • Drive the extraction of services out of our monolith, defining clean boundaries, ownership, and migration paths. • Collaborate closely with Product and Design to shape and ship features that move the needle for direct bookings. • Design and ship APIs built for agentic interfaces — making our guest-facing domain consumable by AI agents and automated workflows. • Improve page speed and end-to-end performance, working closely with frontend peers since conversion depends on it. • Contribute to high-level architectural decisions and help us move quickly without accumulating regret. • Leverage AI to accelerate code delivery — we provide a Claude Team Premium subscription and expect engineers to use it well.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer, with a strong foundation in software engineering • Strong experience with PHP in production, and experience with Go (or strong interest and ability to ramp up quickly) • Proven experience designing and operating high-traffic, customer-facing systems • Experience decomposing monoliths or extracting services, with a pragmatic view on when to do it (and when not to) • Solid experience designing APIs — REST, GraphQL, or similar — with an eye on clarity, versioning, and consumability (bonus if you've built APIs for AI agents or LLM-driven clients) • Comfortable using AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) as part of your daily workflow, and able to get real leverage out of them • Proven experience in product-oriented engineering teams, ideally within SaaS • Familiarity with Node.js and React is a plus.

🏖️ 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).