Senior Product Engineer Laravel short term rentals

💡We highly encourage you to read through this job post fully before applying.

Who we are

tldr; We build software for Airbnbs to rent themselves.

## ## What we do

Our mission is to democratise access to state of the art technology for short-term rentals. We want to facilitate a future where hosting short-term rentals is at least as easy as managing long-term rentals.

Today, we do this by helping Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com hosts deliver a great and personal guest experience at scale, automatically, though native API integrations, machine-learning, and robust software.

## ## Our team

We are a small, but impactful team of 17 people, working all over Asia, Europe and North America. Our team is fully remote and distributed. We embrace the fact that your best environment is wherever you - personally - feel the most productive and comfortable for day-to-day work.

We (used to 🥺) organise frequent meetups and retreats for the team to physically meet throughout the year. The last trips were to Lisbon, Prague, Paris, Tenerife and Brussels. We are all really looking forward to the next time we would all be able to be together.

## ## Our company

Our company is bootstrapped (no third-party investor) and profitable, with a solo founder (@Pierre-Camille Hamana) who built the first version of the product. We are interested in building a great, growing and sound business. That seems to be working: we help our customers manage over 205,000 properties in 151 countries, with a world-class NPS (±70).

## ## How we recruit

Amongst our core values are transparency and humility. To help you in finding out more about Hospitable, we are releasing an "Applicant Handbook" (on Notion ❤️) that may help you find out more about us, from us:

Applicant Handbook

## ## Where we're at with product:

2018: We added HomeAway (now Vrbo) as a second integration alongside Airbnb, entered channel management territory with our Sync product, and started offering in-depth occupancy and financial metrics.
2019: We rebranded and launched an entirely new, modern web app experience.
2020: Apart from a few wildcard projects in response to the pandemic (🪦☠️ RIP footshake, "churchill", and "napoleon"), we spent this challenging year improving and simplifying the customer experience across the board.
Q1 2021: we've released two of the most requested features: our official Booking.com integration - adding a 3rd major platform alongside Airbnb and Vrbo - as well as the ability to manually add bookings Hospitable's calendar and inbox. Other highly requested features are in the works.
Looking forward: we'll be improving our channel management and messaging product line, expanding the "people" (cleaning, check-in) product tremendously, and exploring a completely new product direction that's crazy ambitious.

## ## Where we're at with tech:

Late 2018: We refactored the original Slim/Laravel hybrid to a full Laravel application with a manageable code structure.
Mid 2019: We completed a full rearchitecting of the web app, with clear separation of Angular frontend, an API layer, and backend workers.
2020: No comment.
Now: we're pretty comfortable with containerisation, micro-services, and k8s, but still prefer our "majestic" 😏 monolith.
Looking forward: we'll be working with more and more external API partners, exploring GPT-3, building a payments infrastructure, and laying the technical groundwork for the crazy ambitious products to come.

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.

Who you are

You are a fantastic human seeking to build something amazing with other fantastic humans!

More specifically, you are a unique blend 🦄 :

You are fanatical about customer experience and user journeys.
You are a self starter and create the spec rather than wait for it.
Your compass points toward customer and business value.
All while being a full stack software engineer, whose code is a means, not an end.

Pretty magical.

## ## What you will be working on

Discovering and shaping new products and features that demand to see the light of day.
Rallying the rest of the team around these new products and features.
Building these new products and features.
Designing and coding the architecture of our core systems and micro-services.
Developing code that is a joy to work with.

## ## What you will unlock

So much personal potential!
Fantastic user reviews when we give them more of their life back.
Team kudos. 🎉

## ## Why you will succeed

Because you have data-backed answers ready.
Because you hold yourself and the team accountable.
Because you own both the product and tech.
Because you solve the right problem, in the right way.
Because you provide critical feedback to everyone and everything.
Because you are heard, and your feedback is acted upon.

## ## How we will grow together

Exposure to a product-fanatical team's iterations of features and the company itself.
Personal engineering level-up 🍄 through daily, compounding improvements.
You will receive (and provide!) frequent code reviews and team reviews.
You will be challenged, and you learn how to rise to the occasion. 💪
Sure, we aren't building reusable rockets, but our long-term vision for remote real-estate investors is pretty grand.

## ## What you'll need to bring with you

🙂If you're hesitant to apply for this position because you feel that you don't meet this list of qualifications fully, don't worry! We want to hear from you.

Product Owner or equivalent product shaping experience.
Good knowledge of PHP 7+, Laravel, and MySQL.
Caring about the impact your code has on your team, your customers, and their customers.
Attention to detail and eagerness for constant improvement.
Everything else is a lovely bonus that we're excited to hear about!

💡When applying, please be sure two answer two questions:

What does product engineering mean to you?
Could you tell us about a life experience that gave you a unique perspective?

What we offer

For us, the company itself is also a product, one that we iterate on. We're always improving and creating an environment where we all love to work.

🤗 A supportive and caring team environment.
💎 Competitive salary.
🏖 Ample - and encouraged - paid leave.
👼 Maternity and paternity leave.
🔩 All the resources and tools that you need to succeed, including budget for personal development.

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Salary and compensation

$70,000 — $150,000/year

Location

Europe, North America