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.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in SaaS software development (production live product)

• Proficiency in Go, with a track record of building and operating production Go services; working knowledge of PHP is a plus (our existing platform runs on it)

• Deep experience with authentication and authorisation concepts: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT/session management, RBAC/ABAC, multi-tenancy

• Experience defining architectural patterns, reference implementations, or shared libraries that other engineering teams adopt and depend on

• Experience designing and developing RESTful web APIs, especially APIs consumed by other internal teams

• Familiarity with event-driven and service-oriented architectures; comfort applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles

• Experience migrating or evolving foundational systems without breaking downstream consumers

• Proficiency in monitoring and supporting production software

• Experience working in a Cloud environment (AWS is a plus)

• Experience with message queues (e.g., AWS SQS) is a plus

• English language level C1

What Success Looks Like:

• You help deliver the new AuthN/AuthZ service that powers Hostaway’s enterprise readiness.

• New services follow standardised templates with clear contracts and observability.

• Product teams adopt platform services easily, with reduced friction and improved delivery speed.

• You become a key contributor to the culture of engineering excellence at Hostaway.

What we offer:

• 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—be it a co-working space, your home office, or even your dining room table. The choice is yours. Just don’t ask to work in our office (we don’t have one).

• Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company. This ensures we all share in the company’s success.

• 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. The specifics depend on the country of the applicant.

• 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).

Thank you for your interest. If you apply for this role, you will receive an email from our Talent Acquisition team after your application has been reviewed alongside the qualifications for this role and the qualifications of others who have applied.

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