# Product Engineer, Core & Connectivity (Laravel - Remote)

**Company:** [Hospitable](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hospitable)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $124k – $154k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Laravel, PHP, MySQL, Angular, Kubernetes, Beanstalk, Php 7+, Testing Pipelines, Observability Tooling, API Integrations
**Posted:** 2025-10-13

> Builds and maintains core platform and OTA connectivity integrations (Airbnb, Booking.com) using Laravel/PHP backend. Ships customer-focused features in a remote monolithic codebase, requiring 3+ years backend experience with Laravel essential.

## Job Description

## What you will be working on

- Dive deep into our foundational codebase to develop new features, maintain existing features, and improve platform stability and partner connectivity.
- Know current OTA connections inside-out to get the maximum benefit out of partner APIs, 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 0→1, and iterate based on customer feedback.
- Use software engineering skills to build magical user experiences that are simple for customers and maintainable by engineers.
- Partner with product, sales, customer success, and other engineers to develop and ship features that solve the right problems.
- Work within our monolithic codebase on a Kubernetes-powered infrastructure-as-code stack.
- Implement and use observability tooling to track and debug post-deployment.
- Seek out and remedy performance/resource issues and feature bugs that impact business operations and customer experience.
- Refactor core platform and connectivity code to make it easier to understand, maintain, and test.

**Tech stack:** 🌴 PALM-B; PHP, Angular, Laravel, MySQL, Beanstalk.

## 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 used by paying customers. Laravel is non-negotiable.
- An eye for testable, maintainable, and intuitive code; mentality of “Code is a means, not an end,” focused on customer and business value.
- Ability to think through non-obvious usage scenarios and ripple effects in complex systems.
- High degree of empathy toward customers and teammates.
- Exceptional communication skills, especially written (Slack and Notion).
- Self-motivated and able to make decisions in uncertainty.

**Nice-to-haves:**
- Experience with queue/job-centric backends.
- Experience building production systems where data ingestion from third-party APIs is critical.

## Benefits

- Total budget: **USD $134,450 - $167,258** depending on cost of living/location.
- For US employees: gross **$123,995 - $154,319**.
- Company equity through $HOST token (RSUs) up to **$76,026**.
- Performance Share Units (PSUs) up to **$284,456** tied to business targets.
- Healthcare, 401(k), 35 days off, parental leave, mental health support.

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