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Hospitable.com · 3 months ago

Product Engineer, Core & Connectivity (Laravel - Remote)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

$121K/yr - $152K/yr

3+ years exp

Hospitable.com is a remote-only and fully distributed company that builds software for Airbnbs to enhance their rental experience. The Core & Connectivity Product Engineer will be responsible for maintaining and improving the core platform and partner connectivity, directly impacting thousands of customers' short-term rental operations.

HospitalitySoftwareVacation Rental

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Know current OTA connections inside-out to get the maximum benefit out of partner APIs, improve downtime resilience, and increase edge-case coverage

Implement and maintain integrations with future connectivity partners

Add your voice to product shaping discussions, ship new core platform features 0→1, and iterate based on customer feedback

Work with Devon whose favourite fruit is Raspberry

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

Partner with product, sales, customer success, and other engineers to develop and ship features that solve the right problems

Work within our "majestic" monolithic codebase, 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/resource issues and feature bugs that have the most impact on business operations and customer experience

Refactor core platform and connectivity code to make it easier to understand, maintain, and test

Qualification

LaravelPHP 7+MySQLSoftware engineeringTesting pipelinesEmpathyAPIsExceptional communicationSelf-motivatedProblem-solving

Required

3+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on backend technologies

Significant experience with Laravel, PHP 7+, MySQL, and testing pipelines in a deployed web application used by paying customers. We are all in on Laravel; this is non-negotiable

An eye for testable, maintainable, and intuitive code, but also

The mentality of 'Code is a means, not an end,' avoids unnecessary abstraction. Your compass points toward customer and business value

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

Exceptional communication skills - especially written. We are a remote-first, fully distributed company. Most communication happens on Slack and Notion

Self-motivated and able to make decisions when surrounded by uncertainty. You don't require a support system to maintain momentum

Preferred

Experience with queue/job-centric backends is a plus

Experience with building production systems where data ingestion from third-party APIs is critical to the business is a big plus

Benefits

A supportive, radically transparent, and caring team environment, where you are trusted, not managed—and a culture that is focused on results and output

Options into the company equity through our $HOST token (RSU's) to share in the long-term upside value of the company

Healthcare (including EPO, PPO and HSA), 401(k)

35 days off per year, encouraged (including self-serve public holidays) and parental leave

Complimentary mental health and emotional support with therapists on call through Slack by Spill

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