Hostaway

backend developer for vacation rental platforms

In short

Senior Backend Engineer role at Hostaway, an AI-powered vacation rental management platform, to design and operate backend services in PHP and Go while extracting services from a monolith. The work involves building APIs for agentic/AI-driven interfaces and collaborating closely with product on technical direction. Requires 6+ years of backend experience, strong PHP/Golang skills, experience with high-traffic systems and API design, plus comfort using AI coding tools. Fully remote, no office available.

О компании
Hostaway provides an AI-powered vacation rental management platform for professional short-term rental operators. It connects property managers with major booking platforms and supports greater efficiency and faster growth.
Задачи
•Design, build, and operate backend services in PHP and Go
•Drive service extraction from the monolith by defining boundaries, ownership, and migration paths
•Collaborate with the Product Manager to shape technical direction and maximize the value of backend services
•Design and ship APIs for agentic interfaces, making the guest-facing domain accessible to AI agents and automated workflows
•Improve page speed and end-to-end performance in collaboration with frontend peers
•Contribute to high-level architectural decisions while enabling fast delivery without accumulating technical debt
•Use AI to accelerate code delivery
Требования
•6+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer and a strong software engineering foundation
•Strong proficiency in PHP and/or Golang, with willingness to work with both
•Experience designing and operating high-traffic, customer-facing systems
•Experience decomposing monoliths or extracting services, with a pragmatic approach to when to do so
•Experience designing clear, versioned, consumable APIs using REST, GraphQL, or similar
•Familiarity with event-driven service-oriented architectures and Domain Driven Design (DDD)
•Comfortable using AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot in daily work
Будет плюсом
•Experience building APIs for AI agents or LLM-driven clients
•AWS experience
•Experience with message queues such as AWS SQS
Условия
•Competitive pay based on market rates in the applicant's country
•Stock options
•Annual paid leave, with amounts varying by country and contract-specific norms
•Country-specific benefits such as health insurance and pensions where customary
•No office is available

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