# Senior Product Engineer

**Company:** [Hospitable](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hospitable)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $134k – $167k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Laravel, PHP, MySQL, Angular, Kubernetes, Infrastructure As Code, Cursor, Claude Code, Github Copilot, Observability, Testing Pipelines, Third-Party Apis
**Posted:** 2026-09-04

> Build and evolve Hospitable’s core and growth platform in Laravel and PHP, delivering customer-focused features, reliable production systems, and maintainable code. The role requires 5+ years of backend engineering experience, strong Laravel expertise, and comfort using AI coding tools in production.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop new features, maintain existing functionality, and build product workflows across the core platform and growth product.
- Shape product direction, launch core platform features from 0 to 1, and iterate based on customer feedback.
- Build simple, intuitive user experiences and maintainable code in a large monolithic codebase.
- Partner with product, sales, customer success, and engineering teams to ship customer-focused solutions.
- Work with Kubernetes-powered infrastructure-as-code systems.
- Implement and use observability tooling to monitor and debug production systems.
- Identify and resolve high-impact performance, resource, and feature issues.
- Refactor core platform code to improve clarity, maintainability, and testability.
- Review and understand AI-generated code before it reaches production.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, focused on backend technologies.
- Significant production experience with Laravel, PHP 7+, MySQL, and testing pipelines in deployed web applications.
- Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot in a production codebase.
- Ability to write testable, maintainable, and intuitive code while prioritizing customer and business value.
- Ability to reason through complex systems, non-obvious usage scenarios, and downstream effects.
- Strong empathy for customers and teammates.
- Exceptional written communication skills.
- Self-motivated and comfortable making decisions amid uncertainty.
- Ability to work under European or American time zones, up to the US East Coast.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with queue- or job-centric backends.
- Experience building production systems that depend on critical data ingestion from third-party APIs.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Total budget: USD $134,450–$167,258.30, depending on location cost of living.
- For US employees: gross compensation of USD $123,993.09–$154,249.72.
- Company equity options through the $HOST token, with a grant value of up to USD $76,026.50.
- Eligibility for up to USD $380,895.00 annually in performance share units, tied to defined business targets.
- US healthcare coverage, including EPO, PPO, and HSA plans, plus 401(k).
- 35 days off per year, including self-serve public holidays, and parental leave.
- Mental health and emotional support through Spill.
- Peer recognition rewards redeemable for gift cards, donations, or monetary rewards.

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