Staff Backend Engineer, PHP + Go - 100% remote - Europe

Hostaway; Barcelona; A distancia; EUR 65.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading SaaS company is seeking a highly motivated Staff Backend Engineer for a fully remote role to enhance integrations with key partners. The ideal candidate has over 6 years of experience in SaaS development, including leadership, and is proficient in backend languages such as PHP and Go. This position provides opportunities for growth and competitive compensation.

Servicios

Competitive salary

100% Remote work

Stock options

Professional growth opportunities

Annual paid leave

Health insurance

Dynamic team culture

Formación

• 6+ years of experience in SaaS software development, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
• Expert-level proficiency in backend languages, willing to dive into PHP + Go.
• Strong understanding of relational databases and experience with RESTful web APIs.

Responsabilidades

• Develop integrations with key partners to enhance customer workflows.
• Collaborate with Product Manager to shape technical solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices.

Conocimientos

SaaS software development

PHP

Go

relational databases

RESTful web APIs

Unit Tests and Integration Tests

Cloud environment (AWS)

English (C1)

Herramientas

MySQL

PostgreSQL

AWS

DynamoDB

MongoDB

Descripción del empleo

NOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within the European region to collaborate with their team, peers, and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing, but please only apply if you are physically based within the European region.

Hostaway is the market-leading SaaS scale‑up transforming the vacation rental industry. With innovative solutions and partnerships with giants like Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking, we’re taking on the competition and winning. Leveraging our customer‑centric core values, we consistently deliver results that encourage growth, learning, and innovation for our team, our customers, and the industry.

As a profitable and growing company, this role is necessitated by our continued growth. Check out more about our recent funding round of $365 million here.

About the role:

Hostaway is seeking a highly motivated Staff Backend Engineer to join the Core team. This team is responsible for the integrations with our key partners (Online Travel Agencies). These integrations are critical to our customers’ daily workflows, powering seamless connectivity between their properties and major booking platforms. If you’ve worked on similar tools that handle huge volumes and interact with a variety of complex APIs, you’ll be a great fit! Staff Engineers are expected to govern the technical maturity for their respective domain, having a clear view of the architectural challenges and how to remediate them over time.

Having a close relationship with the domain’s Product Manager is key. While the PM brings the “what”, you are their peer responsible for bringing the “how”. Digging deep into the business problem the PM is trying to solve is key to be able to make the right decisions on how to shape the technical solution for the team to work on.

You’ll be supported by an Engineering Manager, who will help coordinate the team’s day‑to‑day work, maintain a sustainable delivery pace, and ensure the team is set up for success. Together, you’ll break down complex projects into manageable tasks and drive continuous improvement in our engineering practices.

• 6+ years of experience in SaaS software development, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
• Expert‑level proficiency in any backend language or platform, with a strong willingness to dive deep into PHP + Go, as these are the primary languages we use in this domain.
• Strong understanding of relational databases (e.g. MySQL or PostgreSQL).
• Familiarity with transitioning event‑driven service‑oriented architectures by applying Domain‑Driven Design principles.
• Experience in designing and developing RESTful web APIs.
• Strong experience in writing Unit Tests and Integration Tests (jest or similar).
• Experience working in a Cloud environment (AWS is a plus).
• Experience with message queues (e.g., AWS SQS) is a plus.
• English language level C1.

Nice to have skills for this role:

• Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB or MongoDB).
• Experience building cloud native apps, leveraging AWS managed services.
• Having used PHP in the past or not afraid to dive into some of the current PHP business logic.
• Applying, coaching and mentoring Extreme Programming (XP) agile practices.
• Front‑end experience with React and micro‑frontends.
• Knowledge of containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and DevSecOps practices.

An Average Day for a Staff Engineer

• 10:00‑10:15 Quick team stand‑up; after a teammate has a problem you worked on before, you offer to pair with them.
• 10:30‑14:00 Pairing with a team member to work on a complex scalability issue and grabbing a quick bite in-between coding sessions.
• 14:00‑15:00 Doing a design session with the Product Manager and UX designer for a large upcoming feature that the team should pick up next week. You ask a lot of questions to drill down to the problem we are trying to solve, and suggest some easier solutions that require less effort for the team.
• 15:00‑16:00 The design session triggers thoughts about other areas of the system that will be affected. You dive into the affected areas of the code, find technical debt that might affect the system’s scalability or reliability, create a brief Jira ticket, tag the Product Manager, and ping the ticket to the other domains’ tech leads.
• 16:00‑16:30 Quick catch‑up with the Engineering Manager on the team’s delivery reliability and how you can help keep WIP and PR review time to a minimum.
• 16:30‑18:00 Talking about PRs—there are still a few open. You review the team’s PRs, find code that is difficult to maintain and lacks unit tests, and explain the issues to a junior engineer.

What we offer

• Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant.
• 100% Remote: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence—be it a co‑working space, your home office, or even your dining room table. The choice is yours.
• Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast‑growing and profitable company. This ensures we all share in the company’s success.
• Values‑Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are not just words we’ve written to make us feel good. We leverage them daily when making strategic and tactical decisions.
• Professional Growth: Our rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities, along with a multitude of career advancement opportunities.
• Annual Paid Leave: The specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract‑specific norms.
• Geographic Specific Benefits: As an international employer, we offer different country‑specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary. The specifics depend on the country of the applicant.
• Dynamic Team Culture: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity, providing a key pillar to our success and making it a lot of fun to work here.

Thank you for your interest. If you apply for this role, you will receive an email from our Talent Acquisition team after your application has been reviewed alongside the qualifications for this role and the qualifications of others who have applied.