Quick Summary
This is a fully remote Senior Backend Engineer role, requiring candidates to be physically based within EMEA for team collaboration. While the specific city in this listing is not mandatory, applicants must reside in EMEA.
Hostaway is an industry-leading, AI-powered vacation rental management platform, trusted by over 20,000 property managers globally. Designed for professional short-term rental operators, Hostaway streamlines operations for enhanced efficiency and accelerated growth. As a profitable, high-growth company and the first short-term rental Property Management System unicorn, we invite you to join us during this exciting phase. Learn more about our recent valuation and story.
About the role:
As a Senior Backend Engineer on our Developer Experience team, you will be instrumental in building Hostaway's next generation of platform services and developer tooling. Your responsibilities will include extracting functionality from our monolith, implementing services using PHP, Go, and TypeScript, and ensuring these new services are reliable, observable, and easy to consume. Your contributions will be vital in standardising service templates, developing new services and APIs, and establishing robust CI/CD practices, all of which are crucial for Hostaway's future scalability.
What You’ll Do:
- Contribute to the new authentication and authorisation platform alongside Staff Engineers.
- Help modularise 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 integrated observability.
- Ensure high code quality through 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 proven track record of building and operating production Go services; working knowledge of PHP is a plus.
- Deep experience with authentication and authorisation 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, particularly those consumed by internal teams.
- Familiarity with event-driven and service-oriented architectures; comfort applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles.
- Experience migrating or evolving foundational systems without impacting 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, enhancing Hostaway’s enterprise readiness.
- New services adhere to standardised templates with clear contracts and observability.
- Product teams easily adopt platform services, leading to reduced friction and improved delivery speed.
- You become a key contributor to Hostaway’s culture of engineering excellence.
What we offer:
- Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the applicant's country.
- 100% Remote: Enjoy the flexibility to work from anywhere within your country of residence.
- Equity: Every role includes valuable stock options in our fast-growing, profitable company, ensuring shared success.
- Values-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values guide daily strategic and tactical decisions.
- Professional Growth: Our rapid growth provides 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 global team, spanning over 40 countries, fosters a diverse and international culture that drives innovation, creativity, and success.
Thank you for your interest. After your application has been reviewed against the qualifications for this role and other applicants, you will receive an email from our Talent Acquisition team.