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!

ABOUT THE ROLE

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 be able to make 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.
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6+ years of experience in SaaS software development, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.

• Expert-level proficiency in a Backend programming language, we use PHP.
• 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.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS FOR THIS ROLE:

• Experience with NoSQL databases (like DynamoDB or MongoDB)
• Experience building cloud-native apps, leveraging AWS-managed services
• Experience with NodeJS and TypeScript
• Applying, coaching, and mentoring Extreme Programming (XP) agile practices
• Front-end experience with React and micro-frontends
• Knowledge of containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and DevSecOps practices