Senior Backend Engineer, Developer Experience – 100% Remote – EMEA

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 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 System unicorn 🦄. Join us at our most exciting stage yet! Learn more about our recent valuation and story here.

About the role:

As a Senior Backend Engineer in our Developer Experience team, you’ll work on building the next generation of platform services and developer tooling at Hostaway. You will help extract functionality from the monolith, implement PHP, Go, and TypeScript based services, and ensure new services are reliable, observable, and easy to consume.

Your impact will span across standardising service templates, implementing new services, APIs, and CI/CD practices – setting the stage for Hostaway’s future scalability.

What You’ll Do:

• Contribute to the new authentication/authorisation platform alongside Staff Engineers.

• Help modularise and extract bounded contexts from the monolith into well-defined services.

• Work on Hostaway’s architectural standards.

• Build and maintain APIs, contracts, and service templates with observability baked in.

• Ensure high code quality with unit, integration, and contract testing.

• Collaborate with platform engineers, security, and product teams to deliver cross-cutting capabilities.

• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions.