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About Travelnest

The fate of every independent holiday rental owner is determined by their online presence. Travellers now make all of their buying decisions online. That's a major problem for holiday rental owners.

To compete, owners need exceptional digital marketing, outstanding reviews, competitive pricing, and broad distribution across every relevant travel site-global, regional, or niche. Most are falling dangerously behind. Compare the digital presence of an independent owner to a global hotel chain like Marriott or Hilton-the gap is staggering.

Shopify solved this for e-commerce. Travelnest is solving it for holiday rental owners.

Why you should join us

The Product Engineering team at Travelnest is on a mission to level the playing field for holiday rental owners. We're relentlessly focused on delivering best-in-class financial outcomes for every host who partners with us.

We're a team of curious, driven generalists who run toward the hardest, most meaningful problems. One week, we're designing smarter pricing algorithms. The next, we're building tools that help owners optimise their photos and better understand their reach. The week after, we might be rethinking how we synchronise tens of thousands of listings across platforms-fast, reliably, and at scale.

We're a small, close-knit team that punches well above its weight. We care deeply about building exceptional products. You'll be joining at a pivotal moment in our journey-with huge ownership, fast learning, and meaningful product decisions from day one.

What you'll be doing

• End-to-end ownership - from idea to launch. You lead the charge, collaborate closely, and ship fast. You don't just influence the direction, you build and drive towards it.
• Working full stack. We focus on high-leverage work where it matters most. That means a lot of learning on-the-go.
• Obsessing over the customer. You'll work directly with hosts, our Property Experts, and designers to deeply understand the product this industry needs most.
• Improving how we work. We have a ton of legacy systems to refactor and simplify. A mixture of great and not so great CI/CD and, a patchwork of patterns from years of experimentation.

What successful looks like at Travelnest

• Founder-level ownership. You treat the business like it's your own. You proactively find opportunities, fix what's broken and move fast.
• Thrive in the face of uncertainty. You bring clarity where there is none, make the best calls you can with incomplete data and stay calm when the ground shifts. Ambiguity energises you.
• Accelerate the people around you. You spot blockers, share early and raise the bar without ego. You turn potential into progress, fast.
• Outcomes not tickets. Hosts care about revenue - not the state of the engineering backlog. We do what it takes to move the needle.
• You speak business and code. You understand the commercial drivers behind what we build; and have a natural curiosity for travel which stretches far beyond the tech.

Our stack

We actively use:

• Typescript with Postgres as our core stack.
• React Native with Expo for our Mobile App.
• React with Vercel for our Web App.
• AWS for hosting our infrastructure.
• Terraform for infrastructure.
• GitHub Actions for testing and deployment.
• Sentry and Grafana for observability.
• OpenAI for LLM integrations.

We also work with:

• Python and Flask which underpin most of our legacy estate.
• We actively maintain services following a number of legacy patterns.

What we offer

• Salary between £60,000 and £80,000
• Unlimited holiday allowance
• Comprehensive benefits package including dental, health care, gym discounts and more
• Hybrid working

Our Application process

Applying is really easy through this advert by uploading your CV. We're not looking for perfect CV's, if you like the sound of us send it in!

Stage 0: Screening

Ensure you understand the process and meet basic requirements for the role

Head of Engineering

Stage 1: Problem solving, Culture

Conversation to explore whether our ways of working create an environment where you will thrive

Head of People/CEO/VP Commercial

Stage 2: Technical screening

We're looking for exceptional engineers who can take real problems from whiteboard to production. We invite you to join us for an hour and work through a real architectural problem.

Engineering Team

Stage 3: Build with us!

Join us for up-to three days to build with the team. Join our stand ups; pair up on problems (we pay a day rate).

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or age.