\nWe are hiring a PHP Staff Engineer to focus on backend application work and technical leadership while contributing to DevOps, data, and frontend work as necessary. We’re a small team, so the blend will depend on the individual and the project.\n\n\nIdeal candidates will have an incredibly strong Web SaaS background, a decade or two of Web-based professional history, and a deep comfort with PHP. You are consistently assessing whether technical choices are adding or removing system complexity. You enjoy enabling your teammates to do their best work with clear & appropriate feedback, tailored guidance, and thoughtful workload sharing. You are deeply critical of which technical choices and work will have the most meaningful impact on our goals.\n\n\nThis role offers 160K/yr and participation in our ESOP (Employee Stock Option Program) with a 4-year vesting schedule. If you start by 1 April, you’ll be eligible for the company-wide annual 1 July pay raise. If you’re interested in the role but have questions or feedback, please email the hiring manager. No one’s resume will get buried for being critical, it’s kinda the point of the job.\n\n\nWe will accept applications through Friday, 21 February and begin the email screening process as soon as possible. Initial interviews will ideally be scheduled for 24-27 February, and second interviews the week of 10 March. There are two 90-minute interviews (hiring manager + panel) and we request 3 professional references (but let's talk anyway if you have circumstances that make that impossible). We are filling this role ASAP, preferably no later than 1 April. Please note availability concerns in your application! We can be flexible and are happy to accommodate whenever we can. \n\n\nAbout uConnect \n\n\nuConnect is on a mission to help more people realize their potential by improving access to career services for all people - early in their lives and throughout their careers. Focused on the traditional higher education market, uConnect's All-In-One Virtual Career Center is used by a wide range of institutions including UCLA, MIT, and Baton Rouge Community College to radically improve utilization of career services, career readiness and student outcomes.  We're a mission-driven team working in a fun and collaborative culture which puts people first. uConnect is backed by leading technology investors including Growth Street Partners, Strada Education and LearnLaunch.\n\n\n\nCore responsibilities\n* Collaboratively plan, document, and execute complex web application programming tasks. This is foremost an individual contributor role responsible for shipping.\n* Adhere to team coding standards and architectural principles.\n* Demonstrate advanced knowledge of one or more relevant programming languages in day-to-day use.\n* Demonstrate best practices in submitted code.\n* Make informed decisions about what qualifies as in- and out-of-scope for current tasks and communicate those decisions succinctly and thoroughly.\n* Raise concerns, questions, and ambiguities for team discussion; lead consensus-building.\n* Identify risks in current code, environment, and/or process; recommend alternatives.\n* Add automated low-level tests to code as appropriate.\n* Troubleshoot existing code for defects, performance issues, or other unwanted behavior.\n* Take ownership of overall application code base and be accountable for its long-term health, performance, and alignment with team goals.\n* Take on independent investigations or maintenance projects to enable the rest of the team.\n* Take a leadership role in overall technical decisions and direction.\n* Work cross-functionally with Product, Customer Success, and other stakeholders to identify the best outcomes possible given our goals and constraints.\n\n\n\nSecondary responsibilities\n* Assist with support and bug triage.\n* Assist with CI/CD pipeline as necessary.\n* Assist with E2E tests as necessary.\n* Improve application observability with logging and automated alerting.\n* Explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.\n* Guide and mentor other engineers of all levels with their professional growth and learning.\n* Assist with hiring engineers as requested.\n* Investigate new technologies for applicability to current and future engineering challenges.\n* Monitor the broader technology ecosystem for significant changes and brief team.\n* Respond to priority support incidents during off-hours in rare business-critical situations.\n\n\n\nWhat will a typical day look like?\n* Attend daily engineering standup (Mon-Thu). What’s blocking you, and how can you help your teammates? Sometimes we also do work refinement during this time.\n* Meet with stakeholders and peers to understand and prioritize needs.\n* Programming new product features, upgrading existing functionality, and updating dependencies and pipelines.\n* Performing code review async via pull request or synchronously via Zoom.\n* Validating application functionality through the use of both automated and manual testing.\n* Pairing with another engineer to trade experience or collaborate on a particular challenge. (We encourage pairing as needed and it shouldn’t be “never” but there’s no mandate.)\n* Researching tools, patterns and practices relevant to current or future work.\n* Writing internal documentation about technical choices, runbooks, or team practices.\n* Working with your manager to discuss and implement guidance or technical coaching plans for other engineers.\n* On Fridays (or an equivalent amount of time elsewhere in the week at your discretion), you’re encouraged to pursue team-agreed work that isn’t explicitly toward the product roadmap, like tool upgrades or technical research. We are purposefully targeting 20% of capacity toward maintenance work.\n\n\n\nCore skills & experiences (You check most of these boxes)\n* Building and maintaining Web SaaS products for at least 5 years (12+ is ideal).\n* Advanced programming experience in a Web server context, PHP strongly preferred.\n* Programming experience in JavaScript and HTML/CSS.\n* Advanced SQL query authoring and relational database design constraints.\n* Working remotely with a cross-functional team & collaborating with other engineers.\n* Task refinement & scoping, self-organization, and prioritization.\n* Team-based communication (asking for what they need and conveying challenges and timelines proactively), active listening, and consensus building.\n* Giving and receiving constructive and well-communicated code review feedback.\n* Experience with one or more web application frameworks, especially event-based (as in WordPress, not Kafka).\n* Troubleshooting DNS and web request / server response structures.\n* Validating code using test automation (unit or functional/integration).\n* Controlling major sources of application complexity and managing dependencies thoughtfully.\n\n\n\nAccretive skills (We hope you check a few of these boxes)\n* Using, designing, documenting, and building REST APIs.\n* Experience with WordPress (or similar).\n* Experience using caching layers to improve web application performance.\n* Building & improving CI pipelines (we use BitBucket).\n* Evaluating application-level security and remediation of flaws.\n* Evaluating & implementing accessibility requirements.\n* Experience with data pipelines, feed processing, and/or data migrations.\n* Working with Python (used in our data pipeline), data warehouses, and/or data visualization (We use GCP / BigQuery / Looker).\n* Iterative self-directed learning is second nature to you.\n* You’ve read resources or books like Will Larson’s Staff Engineer and are thoughtful about the strategic role of the Staff Engineer in an organization.\n\n\n\nWhy take this role?\n* High impact, high efficiency, sustainable efforts, & minimal politics. Our entire company culture is oriented to winning together, not individual interests.\n* Truly flexible work schedule with consistent effort to minimize meetings and prioritize individual needs. Unlimited PTO, 15 holidays, plus a mostly-shutdown entire final week of the year.\n* Commitment to a healthy engineering culture with a focus on great documentation, team-based work refinement, and clear acceptance criteria. We’re not done improving how we work.\n* We’re not just “committed to diversity”, we have a diverse & inclusive team and continue to iterate on policies that support it.\n* You're aligned with our mission of improving access to career services & employment outcomes for higher education students by supporting their individual needs.\n* Your 5-year plan could involve deepening your technical skills and focusing on impact as a special project “solver”, becoming the technical lead of a second product team as it forms, or transitioning into an engineering management role. (It likely does not involve becoming an overall project “architect” as that is our principal’s primary role.)\n\n\n\nCompensation package\n* $160,000 annual salary (with annual raise 1 July).\n* 4-year vesting stock options\n* Unlimited PTO (you must use at least 3 weeks; 4-6 is normal)\n* Health insurance (Gold PPO) premium 100% covered for employee & 60% for dependents (Dental 75% for employee & 50% for dependents; Vision 75% for employee)\n* 4% 401K contribution (3% full match + 2% half match)\n* $600 annual home office stipend\n* 12 weeks parental leave (after 1 year)\n* Guaranteed remote work policy (there’s no office)\n\n\n\nHiring process\n* Screening over email (call optional)\n* 90-minute alignment interview (Zoom video)\n* 90-minute functional area interview (Zoom video)\n* Pre-offer stage: (1) 60-minute Meet & Greet with CEO (Zoom video), (2) 3 references (preferably all who worked directly with you for 6 months or more; 1 senior to you in your team or reporting chain)\n* Background check (we do not automatically disqualify applicants for non-violent criminal convictions)\n\n\n\nAbout the team\n* We are fully remote, but require employees reside in the continental US or Canada due to time zones & compliance overhead.\n* We employ 7 full-time engineers (Manager, 4 Application, 1 Data, 1 QA Automation) that lean senior (2 staff-level, 3 senior-level, 2 mid-level, 0 entry — yes, that’s the scale). There is 1 product manager (with plans to grow).\n* No engineers have left the company in 3 years. Our principal engineer has been with the company 12 years. \n* We use a Kanban workflow in Jira (“kanban-like” if we’re being pedantic) with clear acceptance criteria and Gherkin for testing criteria.\n* In 2024, half our tickets were in support of our strategic roadmap, 20% were maintenance work, and the rest were requests (support escalations and other non-roadmap work).\n* We primarily build in a WordPress-based monolith with a few ancillary AWS services.\n* We have managed hosting, so there is no on-call rotation, but as a staff engineer you will be on the short-list of emergency technical contacts. (We had zero emergencies in 2024.)\n* Two years ago, we had zero automated tests. Today, we have more than 500 (300 of which are E2E) and will aggressively increase that number this year, focusing on PHP integration tests in a specific section of the product.\n* We’re publishing our interview plan, onboarding impact plan, and performance review criteria for this role. Our small team works best by being engaged, taking ownership, and exercising critical thinking every day. This role is critical to continuing and expanding that strategy, so consider coming to your interviews with good questions.\n* West coasters beware: Standup is 10:30am ET (Mon-Thu; we don’t have standing meetings on Fridays). It is our team’s only standing meeting (besides 1:1s with your manager and monthly All Hands).\n\n\n\nWhat will your 90-day onboard look like?\n* Weeks 1: Meet people, read docs, complete training, set up your localhost, ask questions. We’re not a “commit code on day 1” shop; relax & adapt. Check in with your manager daily.\n* Weeks 2-4: Dig into team’s current problem set and how you can start contributing now, while also learning medium- and long-term goals to start aligning decisions with them. Join the team’s workflow and complete prioritized work. Check in with your manager a few times a week.\n* Months 2-3: Take work that aligns with your learning goals to quickly expand your exposure to various parts of the product and stack. Make strong contributions, but more biased toward learning than highest priority, tapering back toward priority-based work toward the end of 90-days at the pace that makes sense. Choose a longer-term 1:1 pace.\n\n\n\n\n\n$160,000 - $160,000 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, SaaS, Wordpress, Python, Testing, JavaScript, Education, PHP, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $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\nCambridge, MA or Remote

\n \n\nExplore a new world of possibilities:\n\nSmoobu (www.smoobu.com), a subsidiary of HomeToGo Group, is a fast-growing startup in the vacation rental industry. Smoobu’s all-in-one SaaS solution for private hosts currently manages over 70,000 properties across more than 120 countries. Smoobu’s priority is to help its hosts efficiently manage and grow their business.\n\nSmoobu’s team is the secret to our success. We are an ambitious and international team that are motivated to exceed our customers’ expectations through expert advice and action. We are searching for new colleagues who are looking to take on the exciting challenge of transforming the vacation rental industry and taking it to the next level.\n\n \n\nHow you’ll add value:\n\n\n* Building and perfecting a variety of APIs to enable seamless integration with external partners as well as inter-service communication\n\n* Work hand-in-hand with business stakeholders to identify requirements, plan milestones, and polish features by measuring their performance\n\n* Choose adequate technical and business metrics to monitor features and manage the risk\n\n* Apply engineering best practices to the current team environment \n\n* Contribute to the resolution of technical design issues\n\n\n\n\n \n\nYou’ll be successful in this role if you:\n\n\n* Have solid relevant experience in Backend engineering (latest PHP versions)\n\n* Are proficient with relational databases (MySQL)\n\n* Practical experience with TDD, BDD, SOLID Principles and distributed architectural patterns\n\n* Experience working with Docker and container orchestration technologies\n\n* Have good communication skills and the ability to work efficiently in a distributed cross-functional team\n\n* Are fluent in English\n\n\n\n\n \n\nNice to have:\n\n\n* Familiarity with Frontend technologies (React)\n\n\n\n\n \n\nNote: We operate a rolling recruitment approach  - no deadlines, just opportunities. Should the volume of applications become too high, we might briefly remove this posting to provide our hiring team the space for thorough and unbiased review. The role will be made available again if we decide we’re still looking for the right fit.\n\n \n\nWhy Smoobu?\n\nYour journey with Smoobu is a two-way street - we’ve got you covered! We offer a diverse variety of benefits to enable your career development and make Smoobu a great place to work, including:\n\n\n* The essentials: Competitive compensation package, visa sponsorship & relocation assistance*, full IT support & equipment, corporate benefits, modern offices, 27 paid vacation days a year (+ one additional day per year of employment until 32)\n\n* Career growth: 360° feedback, open feedback culture, buddy and mentorship programs from an international team of passionate industry experts \n\n* Personal development: German & Lithuanian language courses, internal and external workshops & trainings, company & team events, Gympass, clubs & sports (e.g. volleyball, running, yoga classes), psychological support\n\n* Startup spirit: Driven by our Leadership Principles: We are fast, nimble, and results-driven - embodying a startup mentality even as a global, public company. We encourage ownership and enable each other to succeed\n\n* Flexible work approach: Office-led and remote friendly approach; employees are offered remote work flexibility for up to 50% of the year, including work from abroad benefits. Plus, access to a  Travel Industry Card \n\n* Climate action: Committed to being a pioneer in green travel: HomeToGo Group has achieved an industry-leading “Low Risk” (16), awarded by Morningstar Sustainalytics, and is a proud member of Leaders for Climate Action\n\n* And so much more…\n\n\n\n\n*Certain conditions apply\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, Docker, PHP, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $107,500/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\nBerlin, Berlin, Germany

\nTogether we're on a mission to power every property in the world, and to do that, we need to find the best talent in the world. That's why we're on the search for a superstar Senior Backend Engineer.\n\nAs a Senior Backend Engineer, you will implement new architectures, features, and best practices to scale the Cloudbeds platform. You will contribute to new efforts in service-oriented architectures, leveraging the latest, cutting edge technologies. As a Senior Backend Engineer, your goal is to deliver an exceptional experience to our customers all around the world with quality, performance, and scalability top of mind. Alongside your team, you will leverage the latest, modern SaaS and Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies across all layers of the software stack.\n\nLocation: US/Canada/LATAM- Remote\n\nWhat You Will Do: \n\n\n* As a member of the Booking Engine Team you will contribute towards supporting Cloudbeds’ Booking Engine Experiences\n\n* You will primarily be implementing features and improvements utilizing PHP and NodeJS\n\n* You will help lead discussions on complex technical concepts and requirements with both technical and non-technical stakeholders as a contributor to the backend architecture group\n\n* You should be familiar with writing clean, well-tested, well-documented, and elegant code\n\n* Write documentation for new and existing areas of our application\n\n* Contributing towards the ongoing initiative to migrate our core platform into microservices\n\n* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan, build and ship high quality features\n\n* Mentor team members through practices like pair programming and code reviews\n\n* Re-architect and re-factor existing systems to align with project requirements\n\n* Help design the long term vision of our technology and new component architectures\n\n* Write clean, well-documented, and beautiful code\n\n* Promote best practices to improve the quality of our code and processes\n\n* Drive technical decisions within the team\n\n* Advocate for quality and test automation\n\n\n\n\nYou’ll Succeed With: \n\n\n* 5+ years of experience in one or more modern PHP frameworks (Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter)\n\n* 3+ Typescript and NodeJS\n\n* 3+ years working with and designing REST APIs\n\n* A strong business sense and ability to collaborate with leadership and non-technical stakeholders on highly visible projects\n\n* Expert knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, indexing, and searching technologies\n\n* A passion for data-driven decision-making (metrics, experiments, prototypes)\n\n* Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills\n\n* Strong knowledge and a passion for software best practices, design patterns, and testing\n\n* Strong teamwork, leadership, and time management skills\n\n* Passionate about agile practices and continuous improvement\n\n* Business-level English fluency required (verbal and written skills)\n\n\n\n\nNice to Have:\n\n\n* Experience designing and building microservices\n\n* Experience with gRPC and protobuf\n\n* Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS) \n\n* Experience working with a remote-first and globally distributed team\n\n* Travel industry experience is a plus (but definitely not required!)\n\n* Experience with Atlassian products (Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket)\n\n\n\n\n#LI-REMOTE #LI-SD1\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, PHP, Typescript, Senior, 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\nSão Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

\n \n\nExplore a new world of possibilities:\n\nSmoobu (www.smoobu.com), a subsidiary of HomeToGo Group, is a fast-growing startup in the vacation rental industry. Smoobu’s all-in-one SaaS solution for private hosts currently manages over 70,000 properties across more than 120 countries. Smoobu’s priority is to help its hosts efficiently manage and grow their business.\n\nSmoobu’s team is the secret to our success. We are an ambitious and international team that are motivated to exceed our customers’ expectations through expert advice and action. We are searching for new colleagues who are looking to take on the exciting challenge of transforming the vacation rental industry and taking it to the next level.\n\n \n\nYour future contribution:\n\n(Write a paragraph to describe the mission and vision of the role, how it fits into HomeToGo’s wider mission, and describing the business impact it has. This is crucial to attract candidates to the role. This section should form the intro to the job description. See here for more inspiration.)\n\n \n\nHow you’ll add value:\n\n\n* Work hand-in-hand with business stakeholders to identify requirements, plan milestones, and polish features by measuring their performance\n\n* Decompose the monolith, building and perfecting a variety of APIs to enable seamless integration with external partners as well as inter-service communication\n\n* Migrate the application environment from the private cloud to the AWS platform\n\n* Choose adequate technical and business metrics to monitor features and manage the risk\n\n* Apply engineering best practices to the current team environment \n\n* Contribute to the resolution of technical design issues\n\n\n\n\n \n\nYou’ll be successful in this role if you:\n\n\n* Have solid relevant experience in Backend engineering\n\n* Demonstrated expertise in our technical stack \n\n\n\n* Recent PHP & Symfony versions\n\n* Relational databases (MySQL)\n\n\n\n* Have a practical knowledge of:\n\n\n\n* Decomposing monolithic architectures\n\n* Clean Coding\n\n* Test-Driven Development\n\n* SOLID principles\n\n* Docker\n\n\n\n* Have good communication skills and the ability to work efficiently in a distributed team\n\n* Are fluent in English\n\n\n\n\nNice to have:\n\n\n* Familiarity with layered architecture and CQRS patterns\n\n* Understanding of Domain-Driven Design principles\n\n\n\n\n \n\nNote: We operate a rolling recruitment approach  - no deadlines, just opportunities. Should the volume of applications become too high, we might briefly remove this posting to provide our hiring team the space for thorough and unbiased review. The role will be made available again if we decide we’re still looking for the right fit.\n\n \n\nWhy Smoobu?\n\nYour journey with Smoobu is a two-way street - we’ve got you covered! We offer a diverse variety of benefits to enable your career development and make Smoobu a great place to work, including:\n\n\n* The essentials: Competitive compensation package, visa sponsorship & relocation assistance*, full IT support & equipment, corporate benefits, modern offices, 27 paid vacation days a year (+ one additional day per year of employment until 32)\n\n* Career growth: 360° feedback, open feedback culture, buddy and mentorship programs from an international team of passionate industry experts \n\n* Personal development: German & Lithuanian language courses, internal and external workshops & trainings, company & team events, Gympass, clubs & sports (e.g. volleyball, running, yoga classes), psychological support\n\n* Startup spirit: Driven by our Leadership Principles: We are fast, nimble, and results-driven - embodying a startup mentality even as a global, public company. We encourage ownership and enable each other to succeed\n\n* Flexible work approach: Office-led and remote friendly approach; employees are offered remote work flexibility for up to 50% of the year, including work from abroad benefits. Plus, access to a  Travel Industry Card \n\n* Climate action: Committed to being a pioneer in green travel: We’ve achieved an industry-leading “Low Risk” ESG Rating (16), awarded by Morningstar Sustainalytics, and are a proud member of Leaders for Climate Action\n\n* And so much more…\n\n\n\n\n*Certain conditions apply\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, PHP, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $105,000/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\nBerlin, Berlin, Germany

\nExplore a new world of possibilities:\n\nSmoobu (www.smoobu.com), a subsidiary of HomeToGo Group, is a fast-growing startup in the vacation rental industry. Smoobu’s all-in-one SaaS solution for private hosts currently manages over 70,000 properties across more than 120 countries. Smoobu’s priority is to help its hosts efficiently manage and grow their business.\n\nSmoobu’s team is the secret to our success. We are an ambitious and international team that are motivated to exceed our customers’ expectations through expert advice and action. We are searching for new colleagues who are looking to take on the exciting challenge of transforming the vacation rental industry and taking it to the next level.\n\n \n\nHow you’ll add value:\n\n\n* Work hand-in-hand with business stakeholders to identify requirements, plan milestones, and polish features by measuring their performance\n\n* Decompose the monolith, building a modern import/export pipeline to support hundreds of third-party integrations\n\n* Migrate the application environment from the private cloud to the AWS platform\n\n* Choose adequate technical and business metrics to monitor features and manage the risk\n\n* Apply engineering best practices to the current team environment \n\n* Solve technical design issues\n\n\n\n\n \n\nYou’ll be successful in this role if you:\n\n\n* Have solid relevant experience in Backend engineering\n\n* Demonstrate expertise in our technical stack:\n\n\n* Recent PHP & Symfony versions\n\n* Relational databases (MySQL)\n\n* Docker\n\n\n\n\n\n* Have a practical knowledge of:\n\n\n* Decomposing monolithic architectures\n\n* Clean Coding\n\n* Test-Driven Development\n\n* SOLID principles\n\n\n\n\n\n* Have excellent communication skills and the ability to work efficiently in a distributed team\n\n* Are fluent in English\n\n\n\n\nNice to have:\n\n\n* Experience with layered architectures\n\n* Experience with CQRS patterns\n\n* Understanding of Domain-Driven Design principles\n\n\n\n\n \n\nNote: We operate a rolling recruitment approach  - no deadlines, just opportunities. Should the volume of applications become too high, we might briefly remove this posting to provide our hiring team the space for thorough and unbiased review. The role will be made available again if we decide we’re still looking for the right fit.\n\n \n\nWhy Smoobu?\n\nYour journey with Smoobu is a two-way street - we’ve got you covered! We offer a diverse variety of benefits to enable your career development and make Smoobu a great place to work, including:\n\n\n* The essentials: Competitive compensation package, visa sponsorship & relocation assistance*, full IT support & equipment, corporate benefits, modern offices, 27 paid vacation days a year (+ one additional day per year of employment until 32)\n\n* Career growth: 360° feedback, open feedback culture, buddy and mentorship programs from an international team of passionate industry experts \n\n* Personal development: German & Lithuanian language courses, internal and external workshops & trainings, company & team events, Gympass, clubs & sports (e.g. volleyball, running, yoga classes), psychological support\n\n* Startup spirit: Driven by our Leadership Principles: We are fast, nimble, and results-driven - embodying a startup mentality even as a global, public company. We encourage ownership and enable each other to succeed\n\n* Flexible work approach: Ongoing remote work options and work from abroad flexibility for up to 90 days a year. Plus, access to a Travel Industry Card \n\n* Climate action: Committed to being a pioneer in green travel: We’ve achieved an industry-leading “Low Risk” ESG Rating (16), awarded by Morningstar Sustainalytics, and are a proud member of Leaders for Climate Action\n\n* And so much more…\n\n\n\n\n*Certain conditions apply \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, PHP, Senior, 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\nBerlin, Berlin, Germany

\nOur Engineering team is looking for a strong Full Stack Software Engineer who has a passion for building new, highly scalable and robust systems. As a Software Engineer on our HR & Benefit side, you will be an integral part of the engineering team as you’ll be a part of a new squad where there is plenty of ownership and be in a position to deliver value to our customers by shipping new features and helping our platform scale.\n\n\nWho are we?\nHumi’s mission is to help organizations throughout Canada foster their greatest asset – their employees. Starting with a powerful yet intuitive HR, payroll, benefits, and insurance platform, Humi has established a leadership position as the only company addressing all of these needs in one place. With a potential reach spanning every business in Canada, and a platform that touches every employee at every business that uses it, Humi is reimagining the future of work.\n\n\nHumi is backed by the same group who funded Slack, Carta, and more (Tribe Capital), the top value-based U.S. accelerator (Y-Combinator), as well as several of the world’s leading angel investors.\nWe’re hiring across Canada and are open to applicants who prefer to work remotely!\nWe are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve and beyond. We encourage, and are pleased to consider, applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized persons/persons of colour, women, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ2S+ persons, and others who contribute towards promoting innovative ideas and solutions.\n\n\n\n What will you do as a Software Engineer (PHP/Laravel)?\n* From day one, you will be working with a new squad consisting of seasoned Software Engineers on the HR & Benefit side; and collaborating with various technical teams within Humi to deliver on new capabilities, tooling, and exciting initiatives.\n\n\n\n In your first 30 days, you will focus on learning:\n* Participate in Humi’s immersive onboarding program to learn about all aspects of the business while meeting with cross-functional collaborators\n* Work with your manager to build out tailored goals and an education plan in place to set you in the right direction for the upcoming quarter\n\n\n\nIn your first 60 days, you will focus on collaborating:\n* Deep dive into your squad's problem space and start becoming familiar with the many areas that compose HR, like Time Off, Document Signing, and Recruiting\n* Take partial ownership of small features and quick wins within your squad, from scoping to implementation\n* Contribute to the Engineering team's culture, processes, and best practices\n\n\n\n In your first 90 days, you will take initiative:\n* Start assuming more autonomy and finding small ways to practice ownership across the platform\n* Work closely with your Manager to explore goals for the rest of the year\n* Deep dive on other parts of the application outside of the squad's main responsibilities\n\n\n\nWhat are we looking for in a Software Engineer (PHP)?\n* Minimum of 3-5+ years of experience working with PHP and the Laravel framework\n* Proven experience in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale SaaS applications\n* Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles and design patterns\n* Extensive experience in writing and maintaining automated tests, including unit, integration, and functional tests\n* Proficiency in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, along with experience in front-end frameworks like Vue.js, React, or Angular (preferred)\n* Familiarity with RESTful API design and implementation\n* Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL as well as knowledge of database optimization and performance tuning\n* Strong problem-solving skills, along with excellent communication and interpersonal skills\n* Ability to work independently and as part of a team in an agile development environment\n* A desire to help our team continuously improve\n\n\n\nWhy join Humi?\n* As a team that services the HR world, we are a team that understands you perform best in an environment that cares about their employees\n* Be part of a high performing team of critical thinkers that thrive on problem solving\n* Access leadership and growth opportunities as the company rapidly scales\n* Maintain work-life engagement with flex hours and our Long(er) weekends initiative\n* Opportunity to work fully remote across Canada if you choose to\n\n\n\n\n$110,000 - $145,000 a year\n\nPlease note that all successful candidates will only receive offers through the Humi platform and we do not issue offers outside of our platform. We do not make any offers of employment via social media. Please see our resource library for the best ways to detect fraud and fraudulent activity. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, Education, Laravel, PHP, Angular, API and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $107,500/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\nCanada

\nFollow Up Boss is a cutting edge sales CRM. Customers love our product, check what people say about us. You'll be solving real problems for our thousands of daily users that run their businesses on FUB.\n\nWe are seeking a Director of Engineering who has done it before to lead our dev team. We practice Scrum with 1-week sprint cycles for faster development and feedback. Our roadmap is packed with UX improvements and new features with the goal of making the best product in its class.\n\nIn our current stack we use PHP, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Resque, Elasticsearch, Backbone, React and a handful of modern REST APIs. Everything is hosted on AWS.\n\nThis is a full-time job, choose to work remote or in our San Francisco office.\n\nWhat We Expect\n\n- Experience working in a fast-growing startup building & shipping a SaaS product.\n\n- Outstanding management skills.\n\n- Proven experience growing teams that build great product fast. \n\n- Full stack engineering background.\n\n- Willingness to roll up your sleeves and commit code when needed.\n\nWhat You Can Expect\n\n- Lead the highest caliber engineering team.\n\n- Oversee full stack engineering, drive the entire development process.\n\n- Shipping product fast is one of the key things you will be responsible for.\n\n- Work on a product that customers actually use and love.\n\n- Full support from CEO and CTO.\n\n- Flexible work schedule, work when you are the most productive and be with your family when they need you.\n\n- Ability to work 100% remote, enjoy working from the comfort of your own home. We’re hiring the best people regardless of where they live. So far we have people in the US, Australia, The Netherlands, Ecuador and Ukraine!\n\n- Loose vacation policy, take time off when you need it.\n\n- Competitive compensation, bonuses based on development team performance, trips to tech conferences and company meetups.\n\n- Your choice of equipment, latest MacBook Pro or anything else you need.\n\n- Monthly perks like Starbucks, WholeFoods, Uber, Movie Tickets, Dashlocker.\n\n- Something else you need? Let us know. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Elasticsearch, PHP, API, Sales, Engineer, Full Stack, Full Time, Design, Executive, Digital Nomad, React and SaaS jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/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