Product Engineer, Core & Connectivity
at Hospitable
tldr; We build software for Airbnbs to rent themselves, with a state-of-the-art product and user experience.
Hospitable.com is a remote-only and fully distributed company. We hire based on timezones, not countries.
The Product: Core & Connectivity
Our Core platform is comprised of properties, calendar, messaging, metrics, operations, and guest experience. The Connectivity component is our integrations into major online travel agencies like Agoda, Airbnb, Booking.com, Google Travel, and VRBO. Our more than 18,000 customers rely on our core and connectivity product to manage $300M+ in monthly reservations.
"Working at Hospitable is both the most intense and the most rewarding professional experiences of my life. The momentum isn't for everyone, neither is the laser focus on shipping value, but the right person will flourish and grow here more so than just about anywhere else." - Nik, Principal Product Engineer.
- 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.
- 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.
