Senior Backend Engineer (NestJS/TypeScript, Cloud)

Homhero; Gold Coast City; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Homhero on the Gold Coast is building a modern multi-stack platform for short-term rental management. You will help retire the PHP core, consolidate into NestJS with TypeScript, and contribute to a React frontend as it replaces Sencha.

You will work on a module-based engine for bookings, availability, pricing, and channel management, integrate with OTAs and trust accounting systems, and write meaningful tests and migrations to move schema and data safely.

Qualifications

• Experience building backend services in a typed language (TS/JS).
• Familiarity with NestJS or similar Node frameworks.
• Ability to read and work inside unfamiliar code including PHP.
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs and services.
• Writes meaningful tests (unit/integration/ET tests).

Responsibilities

• Build out the module-based engine: bookings, availability, pricing, channel management, messaging, reporting, and the public API (NestJS/TypeScript).
• Integrate with OTAs, pricing tools, and trust accounting systems.
• Move functionality from the PHP core to NestJS while contributing to the React frontend as it replaces Sencha.
• Write tests that ensure long-term stability (unit, integration, end-to-end).
• Create migrations to move schema/data safely as product evolves.

Skills

NestJS

TypeScript

Backend development

Tools

GitHub

Linear

Job description

Homhero on the Gold Coast is building a modern multi-stack platform for short-term rental management. You will help retire the PHP core, consolidate into NestJS with TypeScript, and contribute to a React frontend as it replaces Sencha.

You will work on a module-based engine for bookings, availability, pricing, and channel management, integrate with OTAs and trust accounting systems, and write meaningful tests and migrations to move schema and data safely.