Quick Summary
This is a FULLY remote role. Candidates must be physically based within EMEA to ensure seamless collaboration with the team, peers, and internal customers. While there is no specific city requirement, applicants must reside within the EMEA region.
Trusted by over 20,000 property managers globally, Hostaway stands as an industry-leading, AI-powered vacation rental management platform. Designed for professional short-term rental operators, Hostaway consolidates essential tools for enhanced efficiency and accelerated growth.
As a profitable, high-growth company, Hostaway is recognized as the first short-term rental Property Management System unicorn. Join us during this exciting growth phase!
About the role:
As a Senior Backend Engineer within our Developer Experience team, you will be instrumental in building the next generation of platform services and developer tooling at Hostaway. Your responsibilities will include extracting functionality from the monolith, implementing services based on PHP, Go, and TypeScript, and ensuring these new services are reliable, observable, and easy to consume.
Your contributions will significantly impact Hostaway’s future scalability by standardizing service templates, implementing new services, APIs, and CI/CD practices.
What You’ll Do:
- Contribute to the new authentication/authorization platform alongside Staff Engineers.
- Help modularize and extract bounded contexts from the monolith into well-defined services.
- Work on Hostaway’s architectural standards.
- Build and maintain APIs, contracts, and service templates with observability baked in.
- Ensure high code quality with unit, integration, and contract testing.
- Collaborate with platform engineers, security, and product teams to deliver cross-cutting capabilities.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 6+ years of experience in SaaS software development (production live product).
- Proficiency in Go, with a track record of building and operating production Go services; working knowledge of PHP is a plus.
- Deep experience with authentication and authorization concepts: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT/session management, RBAC/ABAC, multi-tenancy.
- Experience defining architectural patterns, reference implementations, or shared libraries adopted by other engineering teams.
- Experience designing and developing RESTful web APIs, especially internal APIs.
- Familiarity with event-driven and service-oriented architectures; comfort applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles.
- Experience migrating or evolving foundational systems without breaking downstream consumers.
- Proficiency in monitoring and supporting production software.
- Experience working in a Cloud environment (AWS is a plus).
- Experience with message queues (e.g., AWS SQS) is a plus.
- English language level C1.
What Success Looks Like:
- You help deliver the new AuthN/AuthZ service that powers Hostaway’s enterprise readiness.
- New services follow standardized templates with clear contracts and observability.
- Product teams adopt platform services easily, with reduced friction and improved delivery speed.
- You become a key contributor to the culture of engineering excellence at Hostaway.
What we offer:
- Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the applicant's country.
- 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.
- Equity: Every role includes valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company, ensuring shared success.
- Values-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values guide daily strategic and tactical decisions.
- Professional Growth: Rapid growth offers unparalleled learning, development, and career advancement opportunities.
- Annual Paid Leave: Specific amounts vary by country, aligned with local norms.
- Geographic Specific Benefits: As an international employer, we offer country-specific benefits like Health Insurance and Pensions where customary.
- Dynamic Team Culture: Our diverse and international culture, with team members in over 40 countries, fuels innovation and creativity.
Thank you for your interest. Our Talent Acquisition team will review your application against the qualifications for this role and those of other applicants, and you will receive an email regarding its status.