Senior Software Developer

Houst; United States; Remote; USD 50,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Latest AI tooling paid for and used

Flexible remote work from Georgia

Job summary

Houst is hiring its first dedicated engineer in Georgia to extend a senior engineering team. You will own features end-to-end on a Python/React stack and heavily leverage AI tooling in planning, coding, and reviews.

We are a small, globally distributed team with London and Kraków nodes. This remote role offers a monthly contractor rate of USD 4,500–6,000 excl. VAT, with overlap to UK hours and full remote work from Georgia.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong Python and React skills; daily coding in production.
• Extensive experience using AI coding tools in real projects.
• Experience building backend services and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and ship backend services and APIs (Python 3, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis) and the React/React Native frontends.
• Drive AI-assisted development across the team and evaluate tooling for impact.
• Set engineering standards: CI, code reviews, automated tests, observability and safe releases on AWS.
• Integrate with Airbnb, booking channels, payments, and messaging platforms.
• Collaborate with product and ops to ship solutions to hosting problems.
• Mentor teammates and promote best practices.

Skills

Python

React

SQL

SQLAlchemy

PostgreSQL

Redis

AI tooling

Tools

Flask

SQLAlchemy

PostgreSQL

Redis

React Native

Job description

Houst manages thousands of short-let homes in 20+ cities, from London and Lisbon to Auckland. Behind the scenes our platform does the heavy lifting: listing automation, 24/7 guest messaging, dynamic pricing, cleaning and maintenance scheduling, payouts, and integrations with Airbnb, Booking.com and dozens of other partners.

We are a small, senior engineering team, and we build with AI as a core part of the workflow, not a side experiment. Agents write and review code with us, docs are generated from source, and we measure the gains. We are hiring our first engineer in Georgia to extend that team.

You will own features end to end across a Python / React stack, working directly with product, operations and growth. You will be expected to use AI tooling heavily and well: planning with it, generating and reviewing code with it, and knowing exactly when not to trust it.

Monthly rate: USD 4,500–6,000/month contractor fee excl. VAT (≈ GEL 11,700–15,600)

Location: Fully remote from anywhere in Georgia

Team: Engineering (London + Kraków, GMT/CET hours)

What you will do

• Design, build and ship backend services and APIs (Python 3, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis) and the React / React Native frontends they power
• Drive AI-assisted development across the team: agentic coding tools, prompt and context engineering, automated review, test generation, and the evaluation that proves they help
• Set and uphold the engineering bar: CI, peer review, automated testing, observability, safe releases on AWS
• Integrate with third-party platforms (Airbnb, booking channels, payments, messaging) and keep those integrations reliable
• Pair with product and ops to turn messy real-world hosting problems into shipped software
• Mentor through review and example; help the wider team adopt what works

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software development, with deep hands-on Python and solid React; you are highly technical and still code every day
• Daily, serious use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar) in real production work, and clear opinions on where they help and where they hurt

  Nice to have

  • Experience building agentic workflows or LLM features into a product (tool use, evals, prompt caching, cost control)
  • React Native, Elastic Stack, or proptech / travel / marketplace background

  Benefits

  • USD 4,500–6,000/month contractor fee excl. VAT (≈ GEL 11,700–15,600)
  • Fully remote from anywhere in Georgia (Tbilisi, Batumi, Kutaisi or elsewhere), with overlap to UK working hours
  • Latest AI tooling paid for and expected to be used
  • A direct line to the CTO and real influence over how a fast-growing proptech is built
  • An international, collaborative team that values quality, speed and curiosity