Engineer

Hostie - Careers; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Hostie - Careers is building a restaurant’s virtual concierge platform that handles guest communications, reservations, events, and takeout at scale. We’re looking for a backend-focused engineer who ships complete features end-to-end and owns their work from development to production monitoring.

You’ll collaborate with founders, PMs, Sales and CS, contribute to distributed systems, and grow into deeper backend specialization while gaining exposure to real-time architectures like WebSockets and

Qualifications

• 4–6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Ability to work independently with ownership.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving to fix root issues.
• Strong communicator who can collaborate across engineering, product, and sales.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship features end-to-end in production.
• Collaborate closely with founders, PMs, Sales and CS to understand product requirements and trade-offs.
• Take ownership of your work with a strong attention to detail and a bias toward getting things done.
• Contribute across the full stack with a lean toward backend and distributed systems as you grow your depth.
• Learn fast, ask good questions, and raise the bar.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Debugging skills

System design

Code reviews

Ownership

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

Next.js

React

MongoDB

WebSockets

Job description

About Hostie

Hostie is your restaurant’s Virtual Concierge, making sure every call, text, or question gets answered in your voice. Behind the scenes, we handle guest communication, reservations, events, and takeout automatically, all in one place. Hostie takes care of the noise so your staff can focus on the service.

Restaurants across North America use Hostie to ensure no guest goes unanswered while giving their teams more time to focus on hospitality.

Hostie integrates with platforms like OpenTable, Toast, and SevenRooms and is backed by Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), Obvious Ventures (founded by Ev Williams), and leading hospitality investors.

What You’ll Do

• Build and ship complete features end-to-end. You’ll write clean, maintainable code to rollout and monitoring in production
• Collaborate closely with the founders, PMs, Sales and CS to understand product requirements and navigate trade-offs
• Take ownership of your work with a strong attention to detail and a bias toward getting things done
• Contribute across the full stack with a lean toward backend and distributed systems as you grow your depth over time
• Learn fast, ask good questions, and raise the bar

About You

• 4–6+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping high quality code
• Ability to work independently with a strong sense of ownership. We’ll give you the keys and projects, but we want you to act like an owner
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving instincts; you dig in until you understandwhyand fix the core issues vs just the ticket
• Strong communicator who can collaborate across engineering, product, and sales
• Any experience with real-time systems or event-driven architectures (WebSockets, etc.)

Bonus Skills

• Familiarity with our stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, React, LLM-agnostic and Mongo.
• Experience integrating third-party APIs.
• Curiosity about or hands-on experimentation with LLM APIs — you’ve built something with them, even if it’s with Claude Code