Key Facts

Remote From:

EMEA

Category: Back-End Engineer

Full time

Senior (5-10 years)

English

Hard Skills

PHP Development Microservices Back End (Software Engineering) Performance Improvement Artificial Intelligence Design Theory

Other Skills

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Collaboration

Roles & Responsibilities

Experience in backend development using PHP and Go
Strong understanding of microservices architecture
Ability to design and implement APIs
Familiarity with performance optimization techniques

Requirements:

Design, build, and operate backend services for guest portal and sales site builder
Drive the extraction of services from the monolith with defined boundaries
Collaborate with Product and Design to develop impactful features
Improve performance and page speed while working with frontend teams

Hostaway

Computer Software / SaaS

About Hostaway

Hostaway is the world's leading vacation rental management software, perfect for those with 2 to 1,000+ listings. We make it easy for you to get more out of your business while spending less time with tedious manual tasks. What we offer: - Channel Manager - Property Management System - Messaging Services - Mobile Apps - User Management - Booking Engine - Revenue Management - Dynamic Pricing - API Our dedicated team brings their deep experience of the sector to the forefront, giving you continual insight into how best to run your business anywhere in the world. More bookings. Less hassle.

Company type: Scaleup

Industry: Computer Software / SaaS

Founded: 2018

Company size: 201 - 500

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Job description

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.