Core & Connectivity Product Engineer (Laravel/PHP)

TL;DR

Core & Connectivity Product Engineer (TravelTech): Building and optimizing core platform services and integrations with online travel agencies for short-term rental management with an accent on API design, platform stability, and edge-case coverage. Focus on developing new features, maintaining complex systems, and ensuring resilience under high usage.

Location: Remote-only and fully distributed company. Your location is not a requirement, but ideal candidates work under European or American timezones. The company hires internationally as contractors, or as employees if you are based in the United States, the European Union, or Australia.

Salary: USD $121,005.00 - USD $152,053.00 (gross compensation for contractors); For US employees: $102,854.25 - $129,245.05 (gross compensation).

Company

hirify.global develops state-of-the-art software for managing short-term rentals, enabling property owners to automate operations and guest experiences.

What you will do

• Develop new features, maintain existing features, and improve platform stability for the core platform and OTA connectivity.
• Optimize current OTA connections, improve downtime resilience, and increase edge-case coverage.
• Implement and maintain integrations with future connectivity partners.
• Add your voice to product shaping discussions, ship new core platform features, and iterate based on customer feedback.
• Use software engineering skills to build magical user experiences that are simple for customers and maintainable for engineers.
• Refactor core platform and connectivity code to make it easier to understand, maintain, and test.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on backend technologies.
• Significant experience with Laravel, PHP 7+, MySQL, and testing pipelines in a deployed web application.
• Ability to think through non-obvious usage scenarios and explore ripple effects within complex systems.
• Exceptional written communication skills, crucial for a remote-first, fully distributed company.
• Self-motivated and able to make decisions when surrounded by uncertainty.
• Experience with queue/job-centric backends and building production systems where data ingestion from third-party APIs is critical to the business is a big plus.

Culture & Benefits

• A supportive, radically transparent, and caring team environment focused on results and output.
• Company equity through $HOST token (RSU's) with a grant value of up to $76,026.50, and Performance Share Units (PSUs) up to $380,104.00 per year tied to business targets.
• For US employees: healthcare (including EPO, PPO and HSA) and 401(k).
• 35 days off per year (encouraged, including self-serve public holidays) and parental leave.
• Complimentary mental health and emotional support with therapists on call through Slack by Spill.