Product Engineer, Core & Connectivity (Laravel - Remote)

About Us

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

Hospitable.com is a remote-only and fully distributed company. 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.

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The Product: Core & Connectivity

Our Core platform comprises properties, calendar, messaging, metrics, operations, and guest experience. The Connectivity component includes integrations into major online travel agencies (OTAs) like Agoda, Airbnb, Booking.com, Google Travel, and VRBO. Our 18,000+ customers rely on us to manage $300M+ in monthly reservations.

<blockquote>
  "Working at Hospitable is both the most intense and the most rewarding professional experiences of my life. The momentum isn't for everyone, neither is the laser focus on shipping value, but the right person will flourish and grow here more so than just about anywhere else." 
  <br><strong>— Nik, Principal Product Engineer</strong>
</blockquote>

What You Will Be Working On

You will dive deep into our foundational codebase to develop new features, maintain existing ones, and improve platform stability and partner connectivity.

<ul>
  <li><strong>API Excellence:</strong> Know OTA connections inside-out to maximize partner APIs, improve downtime resilience, and increase edge-case coverage.</li>
  <li><strong>Integrations:</strong> Implement and maintain integrations with future connectivity partners.</li>
  <li><strong>Product Ownership:</strong> Add your voice to product shaping discussions, ship new core platform features (0→1), and iterate based on customer feedback.</li>
  <li><strong>Engineering Excellence:</strong> Build magical user experiences that are simple for customers to use and simple for other engineers to maintain.</li>
  <li><strong>Collaboration:</strong> Partner with product, sales, customer success, and other engineers to ship features that solve the right problems.</li>
  <li><strong>Technical Operations:</strong> Work within our “majestic” monolithic codebase on a Kubernetes-powered stack, implement observability tooling, and remedy performance/resource issues.</li>
  <li><strong>Refactoring:</strong> Continuously refactor core platform and connectivity code for maintainability.</li>
  <li><strong>Trivia:</strong> Work with Devon, whose favorite fruit is Raspberry.</li>
</ul>

Our Tech Stack: PALM-B

As an engineering team, we are all in on Laravel and Angular. Our stack acronym is PALM-B:

• PHP
• Angular
• Laravel
• MySQL
• Beanstalk

Requirements

• Experience: 3+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on backend technologies.
• Expertise: Significant, non-negotiable experience with Laravel, PHP 7+, MySQL, and testing pipelines in production web applications.
• Mindset: You understand that “Code is a means, not an end,” and avoid unnecessary abstraction. Your compass points toward customer and business value.
• Problem Solving: Ability to think through non-obvious usage scenarios and explore ripple effects within complex systems.
• Communication: Exceptional written communication skills for our remote, distributed environment (Slack and Notion).
• Autonomy: Self-motivated; you can make decisions in uncertainty without requiring a heavy support system.
• Empathy: High degree of empathy for both customers and teammates.
• Bonus Points: Experience with queue/job-centric backends and building systems involving critical third-party data ingestion.

Benefits & Compensation

We are always iterating on our own environment to ensure it's a place where we all love to work.

<h3>Compensation:</h3>
<ul>
  <li><strong>Base Salary:</strong> USD $134,450.00 - USD $167,258.30 (depending on cost of living). <em>For US employees, the gross salary is $123,995.91 - $154,319.69.</em></li>
  <li><strong>Equity:</strong> RSU grant value of up to $76,026.50.</li>
  <li><strong>Performance Shares:</strong> Eligible for up to an additional $284,456.00 per year in Performance Share Units (PSUs), granted upon achieving clearly defined business targets.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Perks:</h3>
<ul>
  <li>35 days off per year (encouraged) + parental leave.</li>
  <li><strong>For US Employees:</strong> Healthcare (EPO, PPO, HSA) and 401(k).</li>
  <li><strong>Well-being:</strong> Mental-health and emotional support with therapists on call via Slack.</li>
  <li><strong>Recognition:</strong> Peer recognition platform with rewards (gift cards, donations, etc.).</li>
</ul>