\nNOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within the EMEA region to collaborate with their team, peers, and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing, but please only apply if you are physically based within the EMEA region.\n\n\nHostaway is the market-leading SaaS scale-up transforming the vacation rental industry. With innovative solutions and partnerships with giants like Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking, we're taking on the competition and winning. Leveraging our customer-centric core values, we consistently deliver results that encourage growth, learning, and innovation for our team, our customers, and the industry.\n\n\n\n\nAs a profitable and growing company, this role is necessitated by our continued growth. Check out more about our recent funding round of $365 million here.\nAbout the role\n\nOur platform powers a global customer base, handling millions of transactions, integrating with industry giants like Airbnb & Expedia, and driving the future of short term rental tech. With $365M recently invested, we’re scaling fast—breaking down our monolithic architecture, designing for next-level scalability, reliability, and innovation.\n\nAs Principal Engineer, you'll be at the heart of this transformation, shaping how our platform evolves to support hundreds of integrations, complex workflows, and a rapidly growing customer base. If solving deep complex engineering challenges at scale excites you, let’s talk.\n\n\n* 10+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years in a leadership role\n* Expert-level proficiency in a Backend programming language, we use PHP.\n* Hands-on experience with completing the transition to microservices architectures and Domain-Driven Design\n* Strong understanding of both relational (MySQL) as well as no-SQL data stores (like DynamoDB or ElasticSearch), data modeling and optimization techniques\n* Knowledge of containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Fargate) and the associated ecosystem\n* Experience with event-streaming platforms like Kafka or Kinesis\n* Extensive experience with AWS services and cloud architecture\n* Proven track record of leading and mentoring cross-functional engineering teams\n* Experience with Agile methodologies and CI/CD practices\n* Solid understanding of software design patterns and architectural distributed computing principles\n* Experience with working in SaaS product companies\n\n\n\n\n\nNice to have skills for this role:\n\n* Experience with front-end engineering (e.g., ReactJS, NextJS, TailwindUI and similar)\n* Experience with performance monitoring and optimisation tools\n* Understanding of security best practices in web applications\n* Experience with scalability challenges in high-growth environments\n* Knowledge of machine learning and AI concepts\n* Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)\n* The ability to exert Extreme Programming values & techniques to the team\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Average Day for a Principal Engineer\n\n* 10:00-10:15 Quick team stand-up, one of your team members seem to be working on a problem you worked on before, and offer to pair with them after the stand-up to support\n* 10:30-14:00 Pairing with one of your team members to work on a complex scalability issue together and grabbing a quick bite to re-fuel those pesky braincells in-between coding sessions!\n* 14:00-15:00 Doing a design session with the Product Manager and UX designer for a large upcoming feature that the team should pick up next week. You ask a lot of questions to drill down to the problem we are trying to solve, and suggest some easier solutions that require less effort for the team.\n* 15:00-16:00 The design session triggered some thoughts about other areas of the system that will be affected. You’re doing a quick dive in the affected areas of the code and find some technical debt that might affect the system’s scalability or reliability. You create a brief Jira ticket and tag the Product Manager to help get it prioritised and to ensure it is not forgotten. You also ping the ticket to one of the other domains' tech leads, as you recall them mentioning a similar problem existing in another domain team.\n* 16:00-16:30 Quick catch-up with the Engineering Manager on the teams delivery reliability and how you can help keep Work in Progress (WIP) and Pull Request (PR) review time to a minimum\n* 16:30-18:00 Talking about PR’s, there are actually still a few open. You take the last part of the day to review your teams PRs. There are some great solutions offered, but one of the junior engineers introduced some code that is difficult to maintain and is lacking unit tests. You jump on a quick call with them to explain the issues and why it matters.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat we offer\n\nCompetitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant.\n100% Remote: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence—be it a co-working space, your home office, or even your dining room table. The choice is yours. Just don’t ask to work in our office (we don’t have one).\nEquity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company. This ensures we all share in the company’s success.\nValues-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are not just words we’ve written to make us feel good. We leverage them daily when making strategic and tactical decisions.\nProfessional Growth: Our rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities, along with a multitude of career advancement opportunities.\nAnnual Paid Leave: The specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms.\nGeographic Specific Benefits: As an international employer, we offer different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary. The specifics depend on the country of the applicant.\nDynamic Team Culture: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity, providing a key pillar to our success (and making it a lot of fun to work here).\n\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest. If you apply for this role, you will receive an email from our Talent Acquisition team after your application has been reviewed alongside the qualifications for this role and the qualifications of others who have applied.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, Cloud, Junior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $55,000 — $90,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nNOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within the EMEA region to collaborate with their team, peers, and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing, but please only apply if you are physically based within the EMEA region.\n\n\nHostaway is the market-leading SaaS scale-up transforming the vacation rental industry. With innovative solutions and partnerships with giants like Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking, we're taking on the competition and winning. Leveraging our customer-centric core values, we consistently deliver results that encourage growth, learning, and innovation for our team, our customers, and the industry.\n\n\n\n\nAs a profitable and growing company, this role is necessitated by our continued growth. Check out more about our recent funding round of $365 million here.\nAbout the role\n\nOur platform powers a global customer base, handling millions of transactions, integrating with industry giants like Airbnb & Expedia, and driving the future of short term rental tech. With $365M recently invested, we’re scaling fast—breaking down our monolithic architecture, designing for next-level scalability, reliability, and innovation.\n\nAs Principal Engineer, you'll be at the heart of this transformation, shaping how our platform evolves to support hundreds of integrations, complex workflows, and a rapidly growing customer base. If solving deep complex engineering challenges at scale excites you, let’s talk.\n\n\n* 10+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years in a leadership role\n* Expert-level proficiency in a Backend programming language, we use PHP.\n* Hands-on experience with completing the transition to microservices architectures and Domain-Driven Design\n* Strong understanding of both relational (MySQL) as well as no-SQL data stores (like DynamoDB or ElasticSearch), data modeling and optimization techniques\n* Knowledge of containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Fargate) and the associated ecosystem\n* Experience with event-streaming platforms like Kafka or Kinesis\n* Extensive experience with AWS services and cloud architecture\n* Proven track record of leading and mentoring cross-functional engineering teams\n* Experience with Agile methodologies and CI/CD practices\n* Solid understanding of software design patterns and architectural distributed computing principles\n* Experience with working in SaaS product companies\n\n\n\n\n\nNice to have skills for this role:\n\n* Experience with front-end engineering (e.g., ReactJS, NextJS, TailwindUI and similar)\n* Experience with performance monitoring and optimisation tools\n* Understanding of security best practices in web applications\n* Experience with scalability challenges in high-growth environments\n* Knowledge of machine learning and AI concepts\n* Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)\n* The ability to exert Extreme Programming values & techniques to the team\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Average Day for a Principal Engineer\n\n* 10:00-10:15 Quick team stand-up, one of your team members seem to be working on a problem you worked on before, and offer to pair with them after the stand-up to support\n* 10:30-14:00 Pairing with one of your team members to work on a complex scalability issue together and grabbing a quick bite to re-fuel those pesky braincells in-between coding sessions!\n* 14:00-15:00 Doing a design session with the Product Manager and UX designer for a large upcoming feature that the team should pick up next week. You ask a lot of questions to drill down to the problem we are trying to solve, and suggest some easier solutions that require less effort for the team.\n* 15:00-16:00 The design session triggered some thoughts about other areas of the system that will be affected. You’re doing a quick dive in the affected areas of the code and find some technical debt that might affect the system’s scalability or reliability. You create a brief Jira ticket and tag the Product Manager to help get it prioritised and to ensure it is not forgotten. You also ping the ticket to one of the other domains' tech leads, as you recall them mentioning a similar problem existing in another domain team.\n* 16:00-16:30 Quick catch-up with the Engineering Manager on the teams delivery reliability and how you can help keep Work in Progress (WIP) and Pull Request (PR) review time to a minimum\n* 16:30-18:00 Talking about PR’s, there are actually still a few open. You take the last part of the day to review your teams PRs. There are some great solutions offered, but one of the junior engineers introduced some code that is difficult to maintain and is lacking unit tests. You jump on a quick call with them to explain the issues and why it matters.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat we offer\n\nCompetitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant.\n100% Remote: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence—be it a co-working space, your home office, or even your dining room table. The choice is yours. Just don’t ask to work in our office (we don’t have one).\nEquity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company. This ensures we all share in the company’s success.\nValues-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are not just words we’ve written to make us feel good. We leverage them daily when making strategic and tactical decisions.\nProfessional Growth: Our rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities, along with a multitude of career advancement opportunities.\nAnnual Paid Leave: The specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms.\nGeographic Specific Benefits: As an international employer, we offer different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary. The specifics depend on the country of the applicant.\nDynamic Team Culture: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity, providing a key pillar to our success (and making it a lot of fun to work here).\n\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest. If you apply for this role, you will receive an email from our Talent Acquisition team after your application has been reviewed alongside the qualifications for this role and the qualifications of others who have applied.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, Cloud, Junior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $55,000 — $90,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nJob Title:  Principal Backend Software Developer\nLocation:  Salem, NH – Hybrid/Remote \n\n\nIn a world where technology serves humanity, Extreme's mission is clear: constantly seeking new ways to create better outcomes. That is what innovation is at its core: new ways, better outcomes. Extreme is united in our endeavor to empower businesses, governments, schools, healthcare providers, cities, and more worldwide to achieve infinite potential with the One Network, One Cloud, One Extreme approach. \n\n\n You will be joining a high-performing Extreme One Cloud engineering team that architects, designs, implements, and tests new features and functionality for ExtremeCloud Applications and Platform - an AI/ML powered, wired, and wireless cloud network management solution. You will take new features from concept to delivery, working closely with team members and cross-functional partners to design and develop high-quality solutions that take into consideration scalability, availability, and performance.\n\n\n\nRoles & Responsibilities\n* Ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements.\n* Write clean, reusable, scalable and secure code for deployment adhering to standard methodologies.\n* Create and review technical documentation and specifications, as necessary.\n* Design solutions, establish best practices and introduce/implement new technologies.\n* Designing systems that are scalable and performant to handle the increasing demands of our users.\n* Conducting thorough code reviews and providing constructive feedback to ensure code quality, security, and maintainability.\n* Work and collaborate with a team of developers and architects, product management,  CX / UX / UI visual designers to create a web application.\n* Provide technical leadership for the development team, representing them in Customer-facing interactions, taking ownership in sprint delivery and resolving functional and technical issues.\n* Delivering application that is based on pre-existing wireframes, designs, or other client requirements.\n\n\n\nQualifications:\n* Backend developer with 10+ years of experience and advanced backend skills (Dockers, Kubernetes, Clustering).\n* Solid knowledge of algorithms and design patterns with coding experience in GoLang, C, Java, Python.\n* Have experience building high-scale, concurrent and cloud-based secured web applications with experience in APIs and interfaces - REST, NETConf, JSON, Yang, OpenConfig, OpenAPI.\n* Have strong experience with relational and non-relational databases, experience in MySQL, MariaDB, GORM, Redis.\n* Have a familiarity with Event-based architecture and experience in RabbitMQ, Kafka messaging services, GNMI, GRPC.\n* Deep understanding of Web Performance and Web Accessibility including security protocols and technologies – IAM, RBAC, Certs, AAA, HTTPS, etc.\n* Have the drive and ability to learn fast and make decisions based on data points and practical scenarios.\n* Believe that speed and quality are not conflicting; you can achieve both.\n* Have excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a passion for building high-quality products.\n* Have strong communication skills, both technical and non-technical, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.\n* Experience building CI/CD pipelines.\n* Ability to work with global teams across time zones.\n* "Self-starter" attitude and the ability to make decisions independently.\n* Hold a BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related degree.\n\n\n\nEducation\n* BS or MS in CS/CE\n\n\n\n\n\n$150,000 - $170,000 a year\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Cloud and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $80,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSalem, New Hampshire, United States

\nPosition Overview:\n\nWe are looking for a Senior Front-End Web Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include translating design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will work with the product designer and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks and works. Aside from publicly faced applications, the person will contribute to internal back office UIs, building easy-to-use interfaces for internal teams in ever-evolving architecture.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n\n* Develop new user-facing features\n\n* Build reusable code and libraries for future use\n\n* Ensure the technical feasibility of design from a visual and experience standpoint.\n\n* Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability\n\n* Ensure consistency of data gathered from the user\n\n* Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders\n\n* Developing internal tooling UI and platform for non-web-native team members to use\n\n\n\n\nSkills needed:\n\n\n* Great understanding of the newest trends, best practices and standards  in web development\n\n* Experience in leading the development of medium to large-scale projects, focusing on UX and Security.\n\n* Understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms\n\n* Proficient understanding of client-side scripting, security best practices, and browser performance optimizations\n\n* Great knowledge of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, ReactJS, Vue (at least one of them), etc.\n\n* Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, SPA, SSG\n\n* Good knowledge of tools necessary for autonomous delivers (image processing, building, etc)\n\n* Familiarity with tools such as Figma and Lokalise is a plus.\n\n* Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.\n\n* Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GitHub.\n\n* Good knowledge of SEO principles and ensuring that applications will adhere to them.\n\n* Experience in designing web architecture, including Backend for Frontend, micro frontends, and usage of docker.\n\n* Excellent attention to detail with a high level of ownership mentality to deliver results independently and iteratively.\n\n\n\n\nOther requirements\n\n\n* A dedicated workspace.\n\n* A reliable internet connection with the fastest speed possible in your area.\n\n* Devices and other essential equipment that meet minimal technical specifications.\n\n* Alignment with Our Values and the Xapo Values-Driven Leadership principles.\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Designer, JavaScript, Finance, CSS, SEO, Senior and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nGibraltar, Gibraltar

\nAbout the role\n\nWe are looking for an experienced Back-end engineer for curating the structure of server-side information. In this role, you will primarily write server components and APIs to be utilized by front side engineers and UX designers. The day to day consists of implementing reusable code libraries, good APIs, generating data storage solutions, optimizing servers for speed and stability, implementing security structures, and collaborating with the frontend engineers to develop a Clean Code / Clean Architecture experience through excellent Software Design and Software Architecture good practices.\n\nBack End Engineers should possess good knowledge about algorithms, data structures, design patterns and Software Engineering in general. A basic understanding of front-end techs such as React, HTML and CSS is needed for efficiency. Vast knowledge of backend coding in NodeJS platforms is required for candidacy. Well qualified applicants will possess strong communication, organizational and time-management skills.\n\nResponsibilities :\n\n\nConfidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members.\n\nDevelop features and improvements to Andela products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.\n\nCollaborate with Engineering Managers, Backend Engineers, Frontend Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, DevOps professionals, Product Managers, Designers, to solve common goals and maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment\n\nConduct Code Review within our Code Review Guidelines and ensure your colleagues' contributions receive a swift response.\n\nSolve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.\n\nRecognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions\n\nTranslate requirements into Conceptual Designs and Technical Designs\n\n\n\n\nRequirements:\n\n\nExcellent communication skills\n\nExperience with NodeJs and Javascript. Typescript is a plus.\n\nExperience with database modeling (ERD/ERM) and migrations\n\nSignificant experience with API Creation & modeling\n\nExperience with Integration tests\n\nKnowledgeable about Software Design Principles, e.g.: Abstraction, Encapsulation, Decomposition, Generalization, Coupling and Cohesion, Separation of Concerns\n\nUnderstanding of scaling applications to handle high data traffic\n\nClean Code / Clean Architecture experience; Design patterns understanding and correct application, e.g.: Singleton, Factory, Adapter, Strategy etc\n\nA basic understanding of front-end tech such as React, HTML5, CSS3 is needed for efficiency\n\n\n\n\n \n\n#LI-REMOTE\n\n#LI-BW\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Swift, DevOps, CSS, HTML, Typescript, API, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNairobi, Nairobi, Kenya