Senior Backend Engineer, Integrations - 100% Remote - Europe
Job description
Senior Backend Engineer on Hostaway's Core team, responsible for integrations with key partners (Online Travel Agencies) that power connectivity between customer properties and major booking platforms. The role designs, builds and operates backend services in PHP and Go and helps extract services out of the monolith.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate backend services in PHP and Go
- Drive the extraction of services out of the monolith, defining clean boundaries, ownership, and migration paths
- Collaborate closely with the Product Manager to shape the technical direction and ensure backend services deliver maximum value
- Design and ship APIs built for agentic interfaces, making the 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 move quickly without accumulating regret
- Leverage AI to accelerate code delivery (Claude Team Premium subscription provided)
What we're looking for
- 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
- 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 daily workflow
- Experience working in a Cloud environment
Nice to have
- Experience building APIs for AI agents or LLM-driven clients
- AWS experience
- Experience with message queues (e.g., AWS SQS)
Your team
Core team
Responsible for the integrations with key partners (Online Travel Agencies), powering seamless connectivity between customer properties and major booking platforms
Benefits
100% Remote: no physical offices; work from home office, co-working space, or anywhere in your country of residence; temporary work from another country with lead's approval
- Competitive Compensation: competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant
- Yearly Team Offsite: once a year, every department gets together in person
- Equity: stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company
- Values-Driven Leadership
- Professional Growth: rapid growth offers learning and development opportunities and career advancement
- Annual Paid Leave: amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms
- Geographic Specific Benefits: country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions where customary
- Dynamic Team Culture: global company with team members in over 40 countries
How to get hired
- 1Application reviewed by Talent Acquisition team alongside qualifications for the role and of other applicants; applicant receives an email after review
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About Hostaway
AI-powered vacation rental management platform
Industry leading, AI-powered vacation rental management platform designed for professional short-term rental operators, bringing everything together for greater efficiency and faster growth. Profitable, high-growth, and the first short-term rental property management software unicorn.
Key facts
- Vacation rental management software
- Trusted by 20,000+ property managers worldwide
- Profitable, high-growth, and the first short-term rental property management software unicorn
- No physical offices
- Team members in over 40 countries