Staff Backend Engineer - Accounting - 100% Remote - EMEA

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., * 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.

• 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.

• 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., * 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-be it a co-working space, your home office, or even your dining room table. The choice is yours. Just don't ask to work in our office (we don't have one).
• Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company. This ensures we all share in the company's success.
• Values-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are not just words we've written to make us feel good. We leverage them daily when making strategic and tactical decisions.
• Professional Growth: Our 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: As an international employer, we offer different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary. The specifics depend on the country of the applicant.
• Dynamic Team Culture: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity, providing a key pillar to our success (and making it a lot of fun to work here).

Trusted by 20,000+ property managers worldwide, Hostaway is an industry leading, AI-powered vacation rental management platform designed for professional short-term rental operators. Hostaway brings everything together for greater efficiency and faster growth.