Product Engineer, Core (Laravel)

Job Description

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

We have crafted an Applicant Handbook, which we highly recommend you check out, where you can find out more about the company, culture, how we recruit, what we do, and how we do it:

We believe that everyone, no matter their background in work, life, culture or experiences has the ability to be exceptional. We seek exceptional people.

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.

Feel free to join in one of our upcoming Townhalls on Youtube to experience it for yourself:

We are looking for candidates to work in our Core, team on all the exciting things we have planned, you can read more about our team breakdowns and get an overview of what each team works on here:

Our Core team has some exciting spaces that have opened up as we continue to grow, we are looking for exceptional people to help in the following areas of our Core team;

Embedded Services; any time with deeply embed a third party services into our product, this is the team we turn to, right now this is working on smart devices. Smart devices today is all things smart locks and thermostats, enabling our hosts to offer super smooth checkins for their guest by provisioning and communicating lock codes and ensuring their properties are at the perfect temperature to welcome guests. Next up we want to shake up the industry with our plans for dynamic pricing. Offering the ability to optimise a hosts nightly rate to ensure maximum occupancy - whilst bringing that Hospitable flair and doing something that no-one else can or will do.

Mogul; here we work on all the features that support our bigger customers, the property managers, right now they are working on delivering a world class Owner Statements product. So if you get your kicks from all things numbers then this is the space for you, this role has a wide berth with touch points all across our product. It is everything from making sure we have the best breakdown of financials for all our reservations across all our integrations (Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, etc), to displaying those in meaningful ways in our Metrics product, and -as mentioned - working on our newly released Owner Statements feature.

PMS; we've made huge strides in the 9 months to truly become a PMS and we've got some many more plans, here we focus on the main core product. From managing properties to handling messaging in Guest Experience to organising your team in Operations to managing the calendar, there is never a shortage of things to do here.

What you will be working on

You will be an important part of our product and engineering team, focusing on shipping glorious experiences to our hosts.

Together with other software engineers and product team, you will be continuing to evolve the product and continue working on our vision to make it trivial to operate a short-term rental.

Although this is a software engineering position, you will have a high degree of ownership and accountability over the product shaping process. This isn’t about dragging Jira tickets and programming what you’re told.

We are currently a fully-distributed team of 5 product managers, 18 backend engineers, and 4 frontend engineers. We're hiring for these roles to help us keep shipping at a high velocity and fill areas in the team that have opened up through growth.

After a few weeks onboarding, you'll dive right into feature development; building, improving and owning the experience that we deliver to hosts and their guests.

To accomplish this, you will:

Partner with product, sales, customer success, and other engineers to develop and ship features that solve the right problems.

Use your software engineering chops to build magical user experiences, which are both simple for customers to use and simple for other engineers to understand and maintain.

Add your voice to product shaping discussions.

Iterate on launched features based on customer feedback.

Actively seek out opportunities to innovate.

Integrate multiple third-party services, often in an asynchronous logic flow.

Creatively solve issues presented by lots of moving parts at scale.

Work within our “majestic” monolithic codebase and few micro-services, all 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 issues, high resource usage, and other technical problem areas that have the most impact on business operations and customer experience.

Apply your skills at a scale that not many people in the Laravel space get to experience.

As a team we are all in on Laravel, we are fortunate to have two Laravel community heavy-weights on our engineering team; Bobby Bouwmann and Tom Herrmann.

Our self-defined tech stack acronym is

Full-time