.NOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) region in order to collaborate with their team, peers, and customers.
You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing, but please do not apply if you are not physically based within the EMEA region.Please note that although this position offers the flexibility of remote work, it requires a full-time commitment to supporting Hostaway exclusively.Hostaway is a SaaS startup that is transforming the vacation rental industry.
With innovative solutions and partnerships with giants like Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking, we're taking on the competition and winning.
Leveraging our customer-centric core values, we consistently deliver results that encourage growth, learning, and innovation for our team, our customers, and the industry.As a profitable and growing company, this role is necessitated by our continued growth.About the role Tech Leads within Hostaway are in a pivotal technical leadership role to ensure their cross-functional team builds the right solutions that solve customer problems in a way that is secure, extensible and scalable for the future.
Tech Leads are expected to govern the technical maturity for their respective domain, having a clear view of the architectural challenges and how to remediate them over time.Our Core Platform team is a special deeply technical oriented team that has the objective to evolve our overall architecture to a more modularised, service oriented architecture.
We are looking for a strong technical lead that can help us drive our Domain Driven Design processes, help design the future evolution of our architecture and drive the overall modularisation effort.This is a pivotal role where you will work directly with the engineering leadership team to define & execute on our technical architectural vision, building a platform foundation that our other domain teams can build upon.Responsibilities 6+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.Expert-level proficiency in a Backend programming language, we use PHP.Hands-on experience with completing the transition to microservices architectures and Domain-Driven Design.Strong understanding of both relational (MySQL) as well as no-SQL data stores (like DynamoDB or ElasticSearch), data modeling and optimization techniques.Knowledge of containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Fargate) and the associated ecosystem.Experience with event-streaming platforms like Kafka or Kinesis.Extensive experience with AWS services and cloud architecture.Proven track record of leading and mentoring cross-functional engineering teams.Experience with Agile methodologies and CI/CD practices.Solid understanding of software design patterns and architectural distributed computing principles.Experience with working in SaaS product companies