Product Engineer, Core & Connectivity (Laravel - Remote)

We build software for Airbnbs to rent themselves, with a state of the art product and user experience.

The Product: Core & Connectivity

Our core platform includes properties, calendar, messaging, metrics, operations, and guest experience. The connectivity component integrates with major OTA partners such as Agoda, Airbnb, Google Travel, and VRBO. Over 18,000 customers rely on our core and connectivity products to manage more than $300M in monthly reservations.

What you will be working on

You will dive deep into our foundational codebase, which glues together our product lines and partner connectivity, to develop new features, maintain existing features, and improve platform stability and partner connectivity.

• Know current OTA connections inside out to maximize benefit from 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.
• Use your software engineering chops to build user experiences that are simple for customers and maintainable by other engineers.
• Partner with product, sales, customer success, and other engineers to develop and ship features that solve the right problems.
• Work within our monolithic codebase, running 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.

Our engineering team focuses on Laravel and Angular. Our tech stack acronym is PALM B; PHP, Angular, Laravel, MySQL, and Beanstalk.

is a remote only and fully distributed company. For this position, location is not a requirement. The ideal fit could work under European or American timezones.

Qualifications

• 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.
• An eye for testable, maintainable, intuitive code, and a mindset that code is a means, not an end.
• The ability to think through non obvious usage scenarios and explore ripple effects within complex systems.
• High empathy toward customers and teammates.
• Exceptional written communication skills; most communication occurs on Slack and Notion.
• Self motivated and able to make decisions amid uncertainty.
• Experience with queue/job centric backends is a plus.
• Experience 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.
• Competitive compensation: total budget $134,450.00-$167,258.30 depending on cost of living; US employees may receive $123,995.91-$154,319.69 gross.
• Equity options through our $HOST token (RSU's) with a grant value up to $76,026.50.
• Eligible for up to $284,456.00 per year in Performance Share Units (PSUs). PSUs do not vest over time and are granted upon achievement of clearly defined business performance targets.
• For US employees: healthcare (including EPO, PPO and HSA), 401(k).
• 35 days off per year, including self serve public holidays, and parental leave.
• Complimentary mental health and emotional support with therapists on call through Slack by Spill.
• Earn virtual coins through our peer recognition platform and redeem them through gift cards, donations, or monetary rewards.

We welcome candidates who may not tick every box-if you still believe you're an amazing fit, we encourage you to apply.