Product Engineer

Summary

Join Hospitable.com, a remote-first company building software for Airbnb rentals, and become a key member of our Core team. We're looking for exceptional backend engineers with a passion for creating seamless user experiences. You'll collaborate with product, sales, and customer success teams to develop and ship features, focusing on solving real customer problems. This role offers significant ownership and accountability, allowing you to shape the product and contribute to our vision of simplifying short-term rentals. We offer a competitive salary, equity, generous time off, and a supportive remote work environment.

Requirements

• 3+ years software engineering experience, with a focus on backend
• Significant experience with Laravel, PHP 8.1+, MySQL, and testing pipelines in a deployed web application used by paying customers. We are all in on Laravel; this is non-negotiable
• A 'shipping' mentality - you get kicks from seeing real customers using your features, receiving feedback from them and iterating/improving on it
• Exceptional communication skills - especially written. We are a remote-first, fully distributed company. Most communication happens on Slack and Notion
• An eye for testable, maintainable, and intuitive code, but also
• Your compass points towards customer and business value, over perfect code (if such a thing exists)
• The ability to think through non-obvious usage scenarios and explore ripple effects within complex systems
• High degree of empathy both toward customers and teammates
• Self-motivated and able to make decisions when surrounded by uncertainty. You don’t require a support system to maintain momentum

Responsibilities

• Partner with product, sales, customer success, and other engineers to develop and ship features that solve the right problems
• Use your software engineering chops to build magical user experiences, which are both simple for customers to use and simple for other engineers to understand and maintain
• Add your voice to product shaping discussions
• Iterate on launched features based on customer feedback
• Actively seek out opportunities to innovate
• Integrate multiple third-party services, often in an asynchronous logic flow
• Creatively solve issues presented by lots of moving parts at scale
• Work within our “majestic” monolithic codebase and few micro-services, all sitting on a Kubernetes-powered infrastructure-as-code stack
• Implement and use observability tooling to track and debug post-deployment
• Seek out and remedy performance issues, high resource usage, and other technical problem areas that have the most impact on business operations and customer experience
• Apply your skills at a scale that not many people in the Laravel space get to experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with query optimisation and queue/job-centric backends is a plus
• Experience with support engineering and communicating with stakeholders who are impacted by your work

Benefits

• The total budget for this role is within $106,448.40 - $134,450.00 depending on the cost of living in your location. We can hire talent internationally as contractors—or employees if you are based in the United States, the European Union, or Australia, taking into account payroll taxes to determine your gross compensation
• We also offer an extra incentive into our equity with RSUs (through our $HOST token)
• 35 days off per year, encouraged (including self-serve public holidays) and parental leave
• Mental-health and emotional support with therapists on call through Slack