Product Engineer

About the role

Our Core platform includes properties, calendar, messaging, metrics, operations, and guest experience. The Connectivity component integrates with major online travel agencies like Agoda, Airbnb, Booking.com, Google Travel, and VRBO. Over 18,000 customers rely on our core and connectivity product to manage $300M+ in monthly reservations. As a Core & Connectivity Product Engineer, you’ll maintain and improve Hospitable’s core platform and OTA connectivity on our remote-first, fully-distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Dive deep into our foundational codebase to develop new features, maintain existing ones, and improve platform stability and partner connectivity.
• Master current OTA connections to maximize partner API benefits, improve downtime resilience, and increase edge-case coverage.
• Implement and maintain integrations with future connectivity partners.
• Contribute to product shaping discussions, ship new core platform features from 0→1, and iterate based on customer feedback.
• Build magical user experiences that are simple for customers and easy for engineers to understand and maintain.
• Partner with product, sales, customer success, and other engineers to develop and ship features that solve the right problems.
• Work within our “majestic” monolithic codebase on a Kubernetes-powered infrastructure-as-code stack.
• Implement and use observability tooling to track and debug post-deployment.
• Identify and remedy performance/resource issues and feature bugs that impact business operations and customer experience.
• Refactor core platform and connectivity code to improve understandability, maintainability, and testability.

Our tech stack is Laravel and Angular, summarized as 🌴 PALM-B: PHP, Angular, Laravel, MySQL, and Beanstalk.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on backend technologies.
• Significant experience with Laravel, PHP 7+, MySQL, and testing pipelines in a deployed web application used by paying customers. Laravel expertise is non-negotiable.
• An eye for testable, maintainable, and intuitive code, balanced with a “Code is a means, not an end” mentality—prioritizing customer and business value.
• Ability to think through non-obvious usage scenarios and explore ripple effects within complex systems.
• High degree of empathy toward customers and teammates.
• Exceptional written communication skills—critical for our remote-first, distributed team where most communication happens on Slack and Notion.
• Self-motivated and able to make decisions amid uncertainty without requiring constant support.
• Experience with queue/job-centric backends is a plus.
• Experience building production systems where data ingestion from third-party APIs is critical to the business is a big plus.

Hospitable is a remote-only, distributed company. While your location isn’t a requirement, the ideal candidate could work under European or American timezones.

Benefits

• A supportive, radically transparent, and caring team environment where you are trusted, not micromanaged, with a culture focused on results and output.
• Total compensation budget between USD $134,450.00 - $167,258.30, adjusted for cost of living. For US employees, gross compensation ranges from $123,995.91 - $154,319.69.
• Company equity through RSUs, with a grant value of up to $76,026.50.
• Eligibility for up to an additional $284,456.00 per year in Performance Share Units (PSUs), tied to measurable business performance targets.
• For US employees: healthcare (including EPO, PPO, and HSA) and 401(k).
• 35 days off per year (including self-serve public holidays) and parental leave.
• Complimentary mental health and emotional support with therapists available via Slack.
• Peer recognition platform where you can earn virtual coins redeemable for gift cards, donations, or monetary rewards.