Staff Backend Engineer - Accounting - 100% Remote - EMEA

Hostaway is an industry leading, AI-powered vacation rental management platform designed for professional short-term rental operators. They are looking for a delivery-focused Staff Backend Engineer to build their new Trust Accounting subsystem, with a focus on security and accuracy in financial services.

• Architect a Greenfield System: Lead the greenfield development, owning the architecture and technical vision for the V1 Trust Accounting product.
• Build Production-Grade Financial Infrastructure: Design and implement the core backend services for a secure, scalable, and auditable trust accounting subsystem with the highest quality standards.
• Drive Quality and Reliability: Establish quality gates, robust testing, and CI/CD integration to ensure every feature ships with measurable confidence and correctness.
• Champion Engineering Best Practices: Drive best practices for system design, observability, and security across the organization, with a focus on quality, resilience, and financial accuracy.
• Collaborate and Influence: Work closely with product, design, finance, and legal teams to deliver a seamless product.
• Mentor and Elevate Engineers: Raise the technical bar across the team and beyond through code reviews, architectural guidance, and hands-on pairing.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years operating at a Staff Engineer or equivalent level.
• Deep Backend Expertise: High proficiency in a backend language like Go for building production-grade services.
• Production Experience: You've built, shipped, and operated critical backend systems that serve real users at scale.
• Strong Architectural Instincts: You can design systems that start simple and evolve gracefully, making pragmatic trade-offs between speed and extensibility.
• Experience with Accounting or Ledger Products: Familiarity with financial systems, accounting principles, or ledger products is a significant plus.
• Cross-Team Influence: You lead through clarity and credibility, not authority, and have successfully driven the adoption of platforms, patterns, or standards.
• Infrastructure Fluency: Comfortable with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and operating services in production.
• Polyglot Comfort: Hostaway’s product includes Go services, a PHP monolith, and a React frontend.

• Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant.
• 100% Remote: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence.
• Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company.
• Values-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are leveraged daily when making strategic and tactical decisions.
• Professional Growth: Our rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities.
• Annual Paid Leave: Specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms.
• Geographic Specific Benefits: Different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions are offered where customary.
• Dynamic Team Culture: A diverse and international culture fuels innovation and creativity.