Senior Backend Engineer, Booking Platform - 100% Remote - EMEA

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

We're looking for an impact-focused Senior Backend Engineer to join Bookineers, the team that owns Hostaway's guest-facing services: the guest portal and the direct sales site builder. These products are how our customers' guests discover, book, and interact with their stays — they're public-facing, high-traffic, and directly tied to our customers' revenue.

You'll work on services that need to be fast, reliable, and scalable. A big part of our current focus is extracting existing services out of the monolith to give us the autonomy, performance, and resilience these guest-facing flows require. In parallel, we're starting to expose our domain through APIs designed for agentic interfaces — opening up new ways for guests and partners to interact with Hostaway. You'll have a real impact on the architecture, the roadmap, and how the team operates.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and operate backend services in PHP and Go that power the guest portal and direct sales site builder.

• Drive the extraction of services out of our monolith, defining clean boundaries, ownership, and migration paths.

• Collaborate closely with Product and Design to shape and ship features that move the needle for direct bookings.

• 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.