Product Engineer, Core (Laravel)

Hospitable.com; United States; Remote; USD 106,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a skilled software engineer to join their remote team. This role focuses on enhancing user experiences for short-term rental hosts through the development of features in a Laravel-based product. You will collaborate closely with product managers and other engineers, bringing your expertise in PHP and MySQL to the table. With a strong emphasis on customer feedback and iterative improvement, you'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact in a supportive and dynamic environment. If you're passionate about building exceptional software and thrive in a remote setting, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

35 days off per year

Mental health support

Equity incentives

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend software engineering experience focused on Laravel.
• Strong communication skills for remote collaboration and customer feedback.

Responsibilities

• Develop and ship features that enhance user experiences for hosts.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to innovate solutions.

Skills

Laravel

PHP 8.1+

MySQL

Software Engineering

Communication Skills

Query Optimization

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Slack

Notion

Job description

tldr; We build software for Airbnbs to rent themselves, with a state-of-the-art product and user experience.

We have crafted an Applicant Handbook, which we highly recommend you check out, where you can find out more about the company, culture, how we recruit, what we do, and how we do it: https://bit.ly/hsptblhndbk

We believe that everyone, no matter their background in work, life, culture or experiences has the ability to be exceptional. We seek exceptional people.

We are bold, like risks, and take on big challenges together. Our customers love the product, provide valuable feedback, and trust us to rapidly help them with more of their problems.

We are looking for candidates to work in our Core team on all the exciting things we have planned, you can read more about our team breakdowns and get an overview of what each team works on here: https://bit.ly/hsptblengr

Our Core team has some exciting spaces that have opened up as we continue to grow, we are looking for exceptional people to help in the following areas of our Core team:

Embedded Services: any time we deeply embed third-party services into our product, this is the team we turn to, right now this is working on smart devices. Smart devices today include smart locks and thermostats, enabling our hosts to offer smooth check-ins for their guests by provisioning and communicating lock codes and ensuring their properties are at the perfect temperature to welcome guests. Next up, we want to shake up the industry with our plans for dynamic pricing, offering the ability to optimize a host's nightly rate to ensure maximum occupancy.

Mogul: here we work on all the features that support our bigger customers, the property managers. Currently, we are delivering a world-class Owner Statements product. If you get your kicks from all things numbers, then this is the space for you. This role has a wide berth with touchpoints across our product, from making sure we have the best breakdown of financials for all our reservations across integrations (Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, etc.) to displaying those in meaningful ways in our Metrics product, and working on our newly released Owner Statements feature.

PMS: we've made huge strides in the past 9 months to truly become a PMS, focusing on the main core product. From managing properties to handling messaging in Guest Experience to organizing your team in Operations to managing the calendar, there is never a shortage of things to do here.

What you will be working on

You will be an important part of our product and engineering team, focusing on shipping glorious experiences to our hosts.

Together with other software engineers and the product team, you will continue to evolve the product and work on our vision to make it trivial to operate a short-term rental.

Although this is a software engineering position, you will have a high degree of ownership and accountability over the product shaping process. This isn’t about dragging Jira tickets and programming what you’re told.

We are currently a fully-distributed team of 5 product managers, 18 backend engineers, and 4 frontend engineers. We're hiring for these roles to help us keep shipping at a high velocity and fill areas in the team that have opened up through growth.

After a few weeks of onboarding, you'll dive right into feature development; building, improving, and owning the experience that we deliver to hosts and their guests.

To accomplish this, you will:

• Partner with product, sales, customer success, and other engineers to develop and ship features that solve the right problems.
• Use your software engineering chops to build magical user experiences, which are both simple for customers to use and simple for other engineers to understand and maintain.
• Add your voice to product shaping discussions.
• Iterate on launched features based on customer feedback.
• Actively seek out opportunities to innovate.
• Integrate multiple third-party services, often in an asynchronous logic flow.
• Creatively solve issues presented by lots of moving parts at scale.
• Work within our “majestic” monolithic codebase and few micro-services, all sitting on a Kubernetes-powered infrastructure-as-code stack.
• Implement and use observability tooling to track and debug post-deployment.
• Seek out and remedy performance issues, high resource usage, and other technical problem areas that have the most impact on business operations and customer experience.
• Apply your skills at a scale that not many people in the Laravel space get to experience.

As a team, we are all in on Laravel, and we are fortunate to have two Laravel community heavy-weights on our engineering team: Bobby Bouwmann and Tom Herrmann.

Our self-defined tech stack acronym is PALM-B; PHP, Angular, Laravel, MySQL, and Beanstalk.

Hospitable.com is a remote-only and distributed company. For this position, your location is not a requirement. The ideal fit would work under European timezones.

Don’t tick all the boxes? Talk to us about why you’re still an amazing fit. In the meantime, here’s what we’re paying attention to:

• 3+ years software engineering experience, with a focus on backend.
• Significant experience with Laravel, PHP 8.1+, MySQL, and testing pipelines in a deployed web application used by paying customers. We are all in on Laravel; this is non-negotiable.
• A 'shipping' mentality - you get kicks from seeing real customers using your features, receiving feedback from them, and iterating/improving on it.
• Exceptional communication skills - especially written. We are a remote-first, fully distributed company. Most communication happens on Slack and Notion.
• An eye for testable, maintainable, and intuitive code, but also...
• Your compass points towards customer and business value, over perfect code (if such a thing exists).
• The ability to think through non-obvious usage scenarios and explore ripple effects within complex systems.
• High degree of empathy both toward customers and teammates.
• Self-motivated and able to make decisions when surrounded by uncertainty. You don’t require a support system to maintain momentum.
• Experience with query optimization and queue/job-centric backends is a plus.
• Experience with support engineering and communicating with stakeholders who are impacted by your work.

The company itself is also a product, one that we iterate on. We're always improving and creating an environment where we all love to work.

• A supportive and caring team environment, where you are trusted, not managed.
• The total budget for this role is within $106,448.40 - $134,450.00 depending on the cost of living in your location. 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 also offer an extra incentive into our equity with RSUs (through our $HOST token).
• 35 days off per year, encouraged (including self-serve public holidays) and parental leave.
• Mental-health and emotional support with therapists on call through Slack.
• Recognized on Inc.’s list of Best Workplaces for 2023.