Product Engineer, Core & Connectivity (Laravel - Remote)

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.