Senior Backend Engineer, Integrations

Summary

Join Hostaway, a leading SaaS company transforming the vacation rental industry, as a fully remote Senior Backend Engineer based in Europe. This role focuses on building and maintaining integrations with key partners like Airbnb and Booking.com. You will collaborate with the Product Manager to translate business needs into effective technical solutions, working with a team responsible for critical customer workflows. The position requires strong backend development skills, experience with RESTful APIs, and a deep understanding of service-oriented architectures. Hostaway offers competitive compensation, equity, professional growth opportunities, and various benefits depending on the applicant's country of residence.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in SaaS software development
• Strong-level proficiency in any backend language or platform, with a strong willingness to dive deep into PHP
• Experience in designing and developing RESTful web APIs
• Familiarity with transitioning event-driven service-oriented architectures by applying Domain Driven Design (DDD) principles
• Experience in writing Unit Tests and Integration Tests
• Experience working in a Cloud environment (AWS is a plus)
• English language level C1

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrations with key partners (Online Travel Agencies)
• Translate business requirements into effective technical solutions
• Shape the technical direction and ensure backend services deliver maximum value
• Break down complex projects into manageable tasks
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with message queues (e.g., AWS SQS)

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant
• 100% Remote: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence
• Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company
• Values-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are not just words we’ve written to make us feel good. We leverage them daily when making strategic and tactical decisions
• Professional Growth: Our rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities, along with a multitude of career advancement opportunities
• Annual Paid Leave: The specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms
• Geographic Specific Benefits: As an international employer, we offer different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary
• Dynamic Team Culture: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity, providing a key pillar to our success (and making it a lot of fun to work here)