Founding Engineer, Bocobay
Reports to CEO
ÂŁ85-90k
+ significant equity scheme
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Victoria, London)
Market-leading proptech platform and operator ($35m annual revenue)
Open for applications
Market-leading proptech platform and operator ($35m annual revenue)
21-100 employees
Open for applications
ÂŁ85-90k
+ significant equity scheme
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Victoria, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To be the go-to hospitality brand in the Caribbean, through a unique mix of technology and scaled local operations.
Role
Who you are
- Comfortable taking responsibility within lean, smart teams to support continued rapid growth as the main technical owner (we're currently at $35m gross revenue, doubling each year since inception)
- Worked 4-6 years plus as a backend/platform/data engineer
- Have strong relational data modelling skills (using Postgres/MySQL etc) with experience designing schemas and working in messy, realâworld data environments
- Competent at shipping and maintaining production systems (not just prototypes), using judgement to balance âdoing it properlyâ with âthis needs to work next weekâ
- Proficient in Python, Go, or TypeScript/Node with experience building productionâgrade integrations to thirdâparty APIs and working with cloud infrastructure (eg serverless functions, managed DBs, scheduled jobs)
Desirable
- Experience migrating from noâcode/lowâcode tools (Airtable/Zapier/Make/N8N) to custom code + DB
- Experience with Supabase or similar managed Postgres platforms
- Background in property tech, marketplaces, or other operationsâheavy, dataârich businesses
- Interest in shaping the broader technical direction and eventually mentoring future hires
What the job involves
- Owning the end-to-end stack, setting the technical direction from core data models to integrations and downstream systems
- Defining and implementing our core data model as the single source of truth across bookings, listings, pricing, channels, and operations
- Designing a robust, scalable relational database and leading safe migration from our current Airtable-based setup
- Making critical technical judgments (eg build vs buy or low-code vs custom), as you build future-proof pipelines that support continuous evolution without disrupting the business
- Establishing foundational observability (including logging, alerts, and dashboards) to ensure data reliability and fast issue detection
- Building and overseeing resilient ETL pipelines for third-party APIs, with strong validation, error handling, and monitoring as first-class concerns
- Partnering with the founder to shape workflows and requirements, challenge assumptions, and directly influence the direction of our internal platform and customer-facing products
Application process
- 15 min screening call
- 30 min interview with senior team member
- 1 hour case study interview
- 30 min screening call with technical company shareholder
- Lunch with the rest of the London team
- Official Offer
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Online travel platforms like Airbnb have transformed global travel, with COVID accelerating the shift toward private, professionally managed stays. Bocobay is taking this evolution further - disrupting the luxury rental market with a scalable, asset-light model powered by proprietary operating technology.
London-headquartered and growing quietly but rapidly, Bocobay has delivered consistent 2x year-on-year growth across multiple digital travel channels. By focusing from the outset on the pan-Caribbean market, the company is building a category-defining platform that benefits both sides of the market.
Bocobay enables homeowners and developers to unlock significantly higher yields from their properties, while guests enjoy consistently exceptional, design-led stays - without the friction typical of short-term rentals.
Already operating across Aruba, Curaçao, and Jamaica, Bocobay has ambitious internationally expansion plans underway as it continues to professionalise systems, scale its technology, and build out a world-class leadership team.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
60% female employees
Company
Company benefits
- Annual team trip to the Caribbean (potentially more, as required) đ
- Equity options (EMI share option scheme)
- Work from anywhere for 2 weeks
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Plus everything else you would expect (inspiring Victoria office, new Macbook, WFH Fridays etc)
Company values
- Be the solution: Our job isn't done until the job is done
- Default to action: Do it now; update others after.
- Be resourceful: Turn constraints into solutions.
Company HQ
Victoria, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Nick Curtis
(Founder)Nick founded Bocobay, which has doubled its revenues every year into the eight figures, after graduating from Oxford mathematics.
Fabian Weiss
(COO)Fabian has worked for over a decade in operations management at Amazon and Nike, after he graduated from Cambridge.
People progressing
Tara started with Bocobay as a field agent, and in the space of two years has been promoted three times. Tara currently leads the on-the-ground operation in Aruba, Caribbean.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Bocobay
Charlotte Moreno (Managing Director, Aruba)
- Weâre an equal opportunity employer and believe that diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences are fundamental to building high-performing teams.
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