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About this role
NOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within EMEA to collaborate with their team, peers, and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing, but please only apply if you are physically based within EMEA.
Trusted by 20,000+ property managers worldwide, Hostaway is an industry leading, AI-powered vacation rental management platform designed for professional short-term rental operators. Hostaway brings everything together for greater efficiency and faster growth.
Profitable, high-growth, and the first short-term rental property management software unicorn 🦄. Join us at our most exciting stage yet! Learn more about our recent valuation and story here.
About the role
Hostaway is seeking a highly motivated Senior Backend Engineer to join the Core team. This team is responsible for the integrations with our key partners (Online Travel Agencies). These integrations are critical to our customers’ daily workflows, powering seamless connectivity between their properties and major booking platforms. If you’ve worked on similar tools that handle huge volumes and interact with a variety of complex APIs, you’ll be a great fit!
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate backend services in PHP and Go.
- Drive the extraction of services out of our monolith, defining clean boundaries, ownership, and migration paths.
- Collaborate closely with the Product Manager to shape the technical direction and ensure our backend services deliver maximum value.
- 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.