About the job
Join Our Team as a Senior Backend Engineer in Developer Experience!
Please note: This position is fully remote; however, candidates must be located within the EMEA region to effectively collaborate with our team, peers, and internal stakeholders. Only apply if you are physically based in EMEA.
Hostaway is a leading AI-driven vacation rental management platform trusted by over 20,000 property managers globally. Our platform is meticulously designed for professional short-term rental operators, streamlining operations for enhanced efficiency and accelerated growth.
As the first unicorn in the short-term rental Property Management System space, we are experiencing exciting growth phases. Discover more about our recent achievements and valuation here.
Role Overview:
As a Senior Backend Engineer on our Developer Experience team, you will spearhead the development of next-gen platform services and developer tooling at Hostaway. Your responsibilities will include extracting functionality from our monolithic architecture, implementing services in PHP, Go, and TypeScript, and ensuring these services are reliable, observable, and user-friendly.
Your contributions will involve standardizing service templates and implementing new services, APIs, and CI/CD practices, laying the groundwork for Hostaway’s future scalability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Staff Engineers to develop a new authentication and authorization platform.
- Assist in modularizing and extracting bounded contexts from the monolith into well-defined services.
- Contribute to the establishment of Hostaway’s architectural standards.
- Design and maintain APIs, contracts, and service templates with built-in observability.
- Ensure optimal code quality through unit, integration, and functional testing.
