Responsibilities
- Deeply engage with the foundational codebase that integrates all product lines to develop new features, maintain existing ones, and build workflows that support customer growth.
- Directly influence the operations of thousands of customers in the short-term rental industry.
- Contribute to product strategy discussions, launch new core platform features from concept to deployment, and refine them based on customer feedback.
- Collaborate with Ben, whose preferred fruit is Strawberry.
- Apply software engineering expertise to create intuitive user experiences that are easy for customers to use and for other engineers to understand and maintain.
- Work alongside product, sales, customer success, and engineering teams to design and deliver features that address the right challenges.
- Operate within a monolithic codebase deployed on a Kubernetes-based infrastructure-as-code stack.
- Implement and utilize observability tools to monitor and troubleshoot after deployment.
- Identify and resolve performance issues and feature bugs that most significantly impact business operations and customer experience.
- Refactor core platform code to enhance clarity, maintainability, and testability.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience, primarily in backend technologies.
- Extensive experience with Laravel, PHP 7+, MySQL, and testing pipelines in a production web application used by paying customers.
- Complete commitment to Laravel as the primary framework; this is mandatory.
- Practical experience with agentic coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, or similar in a real production codebase, not just side projects.
- A focus on writing testable, maintainable, and intuitive code, with the mindset that code is a means to an end, avoiding unnecessary abstraction and prioritizing customer and business value.
- Ability to anticipate non-obvious usage scenarios and understand ripple effects within complex systems.
- Strong empathy for both customers and team members.
- Exceptional communication skills, especially in writing, as the company is remote-first and fully distributed, with most communication via Slack and Notion.
- Self-motivated and capable of making decisions in uncertain situations without needing external support to maintain momentum.
Nice to Have
- Experience with queue or job-centric backends is advantageous.
- Experience building production systems where data ingestion from third-party APIs is critical to the business is a significant plus.
Benefits
- A supportive, transparent, and caring team environment where you are trusted rather than managed, with a focus on results and output.
- Options for company equity through the $HOST token (RSUs), with a grant value of up to $76,026.50, allowing you to share in the company's long-term value.
- Eligibility for up to an additional $380,895.00 per year in Performance Share Units (PSUs), which vest only upon achieving clearly defined business performance targets.
- For US employees: healthcare options including EPO, PPO, and HSA, plus a 401(k) plan.
- 35 days off per year, encouraged, including self-serve public holidays, and parental leave.
- Complimentary mental health and emotional support with therapists available via Slack through Spill.
- Virtual coins earned through a peer recognition platform, redeemable for gift cards, donations, or monetary rewards.
Compensation
Equity through $HOST token RSUs up to $76,026.50, plus up to $380,895.00 per year in Performance Share Units (PSUs) based on business targets; for US employees: healthcare and 401(k).
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide); ideal fit works under European or American (up to East Coast) timezones.
Team
Remote-only and fully distributed company; most communication on Slack and Notion.
Other
- Hospitable is a remote-only and fully distributed company. For this position, your location is not a requirement. The ideal fit could work under European or American (up to East Coast) timezones.
- We can hire talent internationally as contractors—or employees if you are based in the United States, the European Union, or Australia, taking into account payroll taxes to determine your gross compensation.
We can hire internationally as contractors, or as employees if based in the United States, European Union, or Australia, with compensation adjusted for payroll taxes.
