Product Engineer, Core & Connectivity (Laravel - Remote)

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. An eye for testable, maintainable, and intuitive code. Mentality of “Code is a means, not an end,” avoids unnecessary abstraction. 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.

Maintain and improve Hospitable’s core platform and OTA connectivity. 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, improve downtime resilience, and increase edge-case coverage. Implement and maintain integrations with future connectivity partners. Add voice to product shaping discussions, ship new core platform features 0→1, and iterate based on customer feedback. Build magical user experiences, which are both simple for customers to use and simple for other 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 monolithic codebase, 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/resource issues and feature bugs that have the most impact on business operations and customer experience. Refactor core platform and connectivity code to make it easier to understand, maintain, and test.