Hostaway is a leading vacation rental management software that simplifies business operations and maximizes bookings for property owners worldwide.

Hostaway

NOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within the European region 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 the European region.

 

Hostaway is the market-leading SaaS scale-up transforming the vacation rental industry. With innovative solutions and partnerships with giants like Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking, we're taking on the competition and winning. Leveraging our customer-centric core values, we consistently deliver results that encourage growth, learning, and innovation for our team, our customers, and the industry.

 

As a profitable and growing company, this role is necessitated by our continued growth. Check out more about our recent funding round of $365 million here.

 

Hostaway is seeking a highly motivated Staff Engineer to join the Host Tools team. This team is responsible for heavily used functionality such as the Calendar, Inbox, Tasks, Automations, and many more. These are essential for our users to enable smooth and efficient property operations and are the most used features in our SaaS product. If you’ve worked on similar tools that handle huge volumes and interact with a variety of complex databases, you’ll be a great fit!

 

Your Mission:

Staff Engineers within Hostaway are in a pivotal technical leadership role to ensure their cross-functional team builds the right solutions that solve customer problems in a way that is secure, extensible, and scalable for the future. Staff Engineers are expected to govern the technical maturity for their respective domain, having a clear view of the architectural challenges and how to remediate them over time.

 

Having a close relationship with the domain’s Product Manager is key. While the PM brings the what, you are their peer responsible for bringing the how. Digging deep into the business problem the PM is trying to solve is key to making the right decisions on how to shape the technical solution for the team to work on.

 

You are supported by an Engineering Manager who will help guide the day-to-day delivery aspects of the team, ensuring we break work down into tangible, small tasks, focus on a sustainable but high-performing delivery cadence, and ensure we have the right candidates in place.

 

Requirements:

* 6+ years of experience in SaaS software development, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
* Expert-level proficiency in any backend language or platform, with a strong willingness to dive deep into PHP, as this is the primary language we use in this domain.
* Strong understanding of relational databases (like MySQL or PostgreSQL).
* Familiarity with transitioning event-driven service-oriented architectures by applying Domain Driven Design (DDD) principles.
* Event-driven messaging experience (i.e. Kafka, Kinesis).
* Strong experience with unit testing (using PHPUnit or similar).
* Experience with Agile methodologies and CI/CD practices.
* Ability to balance technical debt with delivering new features in a fast-paced environment.

 

An Average Day for a Staff Engineer

* 10:00-10:15 Quick team stand-up, one of your team members seems to be working on a problem you worked on before, and offer to pair with them after the stand-up to support
* 10:30-14:00 Pairing with one of your team members to work on a complex scalability issue together or continue working on the ADR you started earlier, and grabbing a quick bite to re-fuel those pesky brain cells in between coding sessions!
* 14:00-15:00 Doing a design session with the Product Manager and UX designer for a large upcoming feature that the team should pick up next week. You ask a lot of questions to drill down to the problem we are trying to solve, and suggest some easier solutions that require less effort for the team.
* 15:00-16:00 The design session triggered some thoughts about other areas of the system that will be affected. You’re doing a quick dive in the affected areas of the code and find some technical debt that might affect the system’s scalability or reliability. You create a brief Jira ticket and tag the Product Manager to help get it prioritised and to ensure it is not forgotten. You also ping the ticket to one of the other domains' tech leads, as you recall them mentioning a similar problem existing in another domain team.
* 16:00-16:30 Quick catch-up with the Engineering Manager on the team's delivery reliability and how you can help keep Work in Progress (WIP) and Pull Request (PR) review time to a minimum
* 16:30-18:00 Talking about PRs, there are actually still a few open. You take the last part of the day to review your team's PRs. There are some great solutions offered, but one of the junior engineers introduced some code that is difficult to maintain and lacks unit tests. You jump on a quick call with them to explain the issues and why it matters.

 

What we offer

* 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).

 

Thank you for your interest. If you apply for this role, you will receive an email from our Talent Acquisition team after your application has been reviewed alongside the qualifications for this role and the qualifications of others who have applied.