Senior Backend Engineer, Developer Experience - Remote

Overview

As a Senior Backend Engineer in our Developer Experience team, you’ll work on building the next generation of platform services and developer tooling at Hostaway.

In Short

• Contribute to the new authentication/authorisation platform alongside Staff Engineers.
• Help modularise and extract bounded contexts from the monolith into well-defined services.
• Work on Hostaway’s architectural standards.
• Build and maintain APIs, contracts, and service templates with observability baked in.
• Ensure high code quality with unit, integration, and contract testing.
• Collaborate with platform engineers, security, and product teams.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions.
• 6+ years of experience in SaaS software development.
• Proficiency in Go, with a track record of building production Go services.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful web APIs.

Requirements

• Deep experience with authentication and authorisation concepts.
• Experience defining architectural patterns and shared libraries.
• Familiarity with event-driven and service-oriented architectures.
• Proficiency in monitoring and supporting production software.
• Experience working in a Cloud environment (AWS is a plus).
• Experience with message queues (e.g., AWS SQS) is a plus.
• English language level C1.

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on market rates.
• 100% Remote work flexibility.
• Equity options in a fast-growing company.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.
• Annual paid leave aligned with country norms.
• Geographic specific benefits like health insurance.
• Dynamic team culture with an international workforce.