Staff Backend Engineer

About The Role

We are looking for a delivery-focused Staff Backend Engineer to build our new Trust Accounting subsystem. This is a greenfield opportunity to design and deliver a financial system that property managers can trust—one that is accurate, compliant, and reliable.

You will have a significant impact on shaping the financial operations of Hostaway's customers, allowing them to maintain compliant records and properly manage funds.

As a founding member of this new team, you will be responsible for the architecture and technical direction of this critical platform. You’ll influence architecture, processes, and delivery from day one, establishing a culture where correctness and accountability are paramount. Your work will directly determine how effectively Hostaway can deliver secure and auditable financial services to our customers.

What You’ll Do

• Architect a Greenfield System: Lead the greenfield development, owning the architecture and technical vision for the V1 Trust Accounting product.
• Build Production-Grade Financial Infrastructure: Design and implement the core backend services for a secure, scalable, and auditable trust accounting subsystem with the highest quality standards.
• Drive Quality and Reliability: Establish quality gates, robust testing, and CI/CD integration to ensure every feature ships with measurable confidence and correctness.
• Champion Engineering Best Practices: Drive best practices for system design, observability, and security across the organization, with a focus on quality, resilience, and financial accuracy.
• Collaborate and Influence: Work closely with product, design, finance, and legal teams to deliver a seamless product. Provide technical context in discussions to foster transparency and accountability.
• Mentor and Elevate Engineers: Raise the technical bar across the team and beyond through code reviews, architectural guidance, and hands‑on pairing.

Job Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years operating at a Staff Engineer or equivalent level.
• Deep Backend Expertise: High proficiency in a backend language like Go for building production‑grade services.
• Production Experience: You've built, shipped, and operated critical backend systems that serve real users at scale. You understand the operational realities of reliability, observability, and failure modes.
• Strong Architectural Instincts: You can design systems that start simple and evolve gracefully, making pragmatic trade‑offs between speed and extensibility.
• Experience with Accounting or Ledger Products: Familiarity with financial systems, accounting principles, or ledger products is a significant plus.
• Cross‑Team Influence: You lead through clarity and credibility, not authority, and have successfully driven the adoption of platforms, patterns, or standards.
• Infrastructure Fluency: Comfortable with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and operating services in production.
• Polyglot Comfort: Hostaway’s product includes Go services, a PHP monolith, and a React frontend. You should have the curiosity and adaptability to integrate with code across these technologies.

What Success Looks Like

• The Trust Accounting subsystem is delivered reliably, is trusted by customers and regulators, and integrates seamlessly into the Hostaway platform.
• The system is high‑throughput and low‑error, providing accurate, auditable data to customers.
• Financial correctness and compliance are central to the product's design and operation.
• You become a go‑to technical authority for financial systems and backend architecture at Hostaway.
• The platform scales to meet growing demand without requiring a fundamental re‑architecture.

What We Offer

• Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant.
• 100% Remote: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence.
• Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast‑growing and profitable company.
• Values‑Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are leveraged daily when making strategic and tactical decisions.
• Professional Growth: Rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities, along with a multitude of career advancement opportunities.
• Annual Paid Leave: The specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract‑specific norms.
• Geographic Specific Benefits: Health Insurance, Pensions, and other country‑specific perks where customary.
• Dynamic Team Culture: A global company with team members in over 40 countries, fostering a diverse and international culture that fuels innovation and creativity.