Product Engineer, Core & Connectivity (Laravel - Remote)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Develop new features, maintain existing features, and improve platform stability and partner connectivity
• - Know current OTA connections inside-out to get the maximum benefit out of partner APIs
• - Implement and maintain integrations with future connectivity partners
• - Add your voice to product shaping discussions, ship new core platform features 0→1, and iterate based on customer feedback
• - Use your software engineering chops to build magical user experiences
• - Partner with product, sales, customer success, and other engineers to develop and ship features that solve the right problems
• - Implement and use observability tooling to track and debug post-deployment
• - Seek out and remedy performance/resource issues and feature bugs
• - Refactor core platform and connectivity code to make it easier to understand, maintain, and test

Required Skills

• - 3+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on backend technologies
• - Significant experience with Laravel, PHP 7+, MySQL, and testing pipelines
• - An eye for testable, maintainable, and intuitive code
• - The mentality of ''Code is a means, not an end,'' avoids unnecessary abstraction
• - 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
• - Exceptional communication skills - especially written
• - Self-motivated and able to make decisions when surrounded by uncertainty
• - Experience with queue/job-centric backends is a plus
• - Experience with building production systems where data ingestion from third-party APIs is critical to the business is a big plus

Benefits

• - A supportive and caring team environment, where you are trusted, not managed
• - The total budget for this role is between USD $121,005.00 - USD $152,053.00 depending on the cost of living in your location
• - Options into the company equity 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