Senior Backend Engineer, Hostaway
Integrations, EMEA
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Vacation rental software for property managers
Open for applications
Vacation rental software for property managers
201-500 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To partner with property managers in the growth of their business by providing solutions to achieve their goals.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer, with a strong foundation in software engineering,
- Strong-level proficiency in PHP and/or Golang, with a strong willingness to dive into both
- Proven experience designing and operating high-traffic, customer-facing systems
- Experience decomposing monoliths or extracting services, with a pragmatic view on when to do it (and when not to)
- Solid experience designing APIs — REST, GraphQL, or similar — with an eye on clarity, versioning, and consumability (bonus if you've built APIs for AI agents or LLM-driven clients)
- Familiarity with transitioning event-driven service-oriented architectures by applying Domain Driven Design (DDD) principles
- Comfortable using AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) as part of your daily workflow, and able to get real leverage out of them
- Experience working in a Cloud environment (AWS is a plus)
- Experience with message queues (e.g., AWS SQS) is a plus
What the job involves
- 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!
- 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
- What success looks like:
- Services are progressively extracted from the monolith with clear ownership and minimal disruption to delivery
- Performance (page speed, latency, uptime) becomes a measurable strength of the products
- Our domain is accessible through clean, well-designed APIs that agentic clients can consume reliably
- The team gets real productivity gains from AI-assisted development, without sacrificing code quality or ownership
- Cross-functional collaboration with Product and Design runs smoothly, with engineering contributing meaningfully to product direction
Our take
Hostaway is an all-in-one vacation rental software solution designed to help property owners streamline and grow their businesses. Hostaway’s product provides property owners a way to present their services to the wider market, making them available on different platforms through the use of its multi-integration software.
What makes Hostaway unique is its comprehensive property management ecosystem. Beyond just listings, the platform allows clients to manage their properties across a wide range of platforms, including Airbnb, Booking.com, and HomeAway. It also integrates with other key services like Stripe, Expedia, and Tripadvisor, offering customisable solutions that support the diverse needs of vacation rental hosts.
It also had impressive growth over the past five years, with revenue doubling to tripling each year. Alongside this, it raised substantial funding in 2024 to fuel its expansion across Europe and accelerate product development. This, in turn, resulted in Hostaway becoming the first Unicorn in the STR PMS sector. With its strong track record and clear vision for the future, Hostaway has a clear road ahead.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
84% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2024
$401.5m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2023
$175m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $579.4m
Company benefits
- Company stock options provided to every role
- Career advancement opportunities
- Dynamic international culture
Company HQ
Kamppi, Helsinki, Uusimaa
Leadership
Marcus Räder
(Co-Founder & CEO)They have previously served as Product Manager and then Advertising Operations Manager at Kiosked, before moving to be Product Manager at Yousician.
Saber Kordestanchi
(Co-Founder & CSO)They co-founded OrumITC before moving to serve as a Software Engineer at booncon and then Kiosked. They were CTO and COO at Hostaway before becoming CSO.
Ken Weary
(COO)An accomplished international SaaS Executive and Operations Leader specializing in scaling B2B companies to new heights. They joined Hostaway in 2024 as COO.
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