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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Backend Engineer, Booking Platform - 100% Remote - EMEA - **Company:** Hostaway - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Software as a Service, Software Quality, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Node.Js, Software Engineering, Management of Software Versions, Web Performance Optimization, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Backend, Graphql, Front End Software Development, Restful APIs - **Published:** May 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9f5bf1acaf943eb7 ## About the Role Do you have experience in React?, * 6+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer, with a strong foundation in software engineering * Strong experience with PHP in production, and experience with Go (or strong interest and ability to ramp up quickly) * Proven experience designing and operating high-traffic, customer-facing systems * Experience decomposing monoliths or extracting services, with a pragmatic view on when to do it (and when not to) * Solid experience designing APIs - REST, GraphQL, or similar - with an eye on clarity, versioning, and consumability (bonus if you've built APIs for AI agents or LLM-driven clients) * Comfortable using AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) as part of your daily workflow, and able to get real leverage out of them * Proven experience in product-oriented engineering teams, ideally within SaaS * Familiarity with Node.js and React is a plus ## Description We're looking for an impact-focused Senior Backend Engineer to join Bookineers, the team that owns Hostaway's guest-facing services: the guest portal and the direct sales site builder. These products are how our customers' guests discover, book, and interact with their stays - they're public-facing, high-traffic, and directly tied to our customers' revenue., * Design, build, and operate backend services in PHP and Go that power the guest portal and direct sales site builder. * Drive the extraction of services out of our monolith, defining clean boundaries, ownership, and migration paths. * Collaborate closely with Product and Design to shape and ship features that move the needle for direct bookings. * Design and ship APIs built for agentic interfaces - making our guest-facing domain consumable by AI agents and automated workflows. * Improve page speed and end-to-end performance, working closely with frontend peers since conversion depends on it. * Contribute to high-level architectural decisions and help us move quickly without accumulating regret. * Leverage AI to accelerate code delivery - we provide a Claude Team Premium subscription and expect engineers to use it well., * The guest portal and direct sales site builder are fast, reliable, and scalable - guests get a smooth experience and our customers see it in their conversion numbers. * Services are progressively extracted from the monolith with clear ownership and minimal disruption to delivery. * Performance (page speed, latency, uptime) becomes a measurable strength of the products Bookineers owns. * Our domain is accessible through clean, well-designed APIs that agentic clients can consume reliably. * The team gets real productivity gains from AI-assisted development, without sacrificing code quality or ownership. * Cross-functional collaboration with Product and Design runs smoothly, with engineering contributing meaningfully to product direction. ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Watch Tests Go Brrrr! : Getting Started with Cypress in ReactJS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/282-watch-tests-go-brrrr-getting-started-with-cypress-in-reactjs) - [Stop using Node.js like in 2020! 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