Senior Backend Engineer, Communications - 100% Remote - EMEA
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Posted: March 10, 2026
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Designs and develops software applications for Hostaway's AI-powered vacation rental management platform, ensuring seamless collaboration with the team and customers.
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NOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within EMEA to collaborate with their team, peers, and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific city shown in this listing, but please only apply if you are physically based within EMEA.
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.
Profitable, high-growth, and the first short-term rental Property Management System unicorn 🦄. Join us at our most exciting stage yet! Learn more about our recent valuation and story here.
About the role:
Hostaway is the market-leading SaaS scale-up 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. Check out more about our recent funding round of $365 million here.
Hostaway is seeking a highly motivated Senior Backend Engineer to join our Communications team. This team is responsible for the Unified Inbox module which streamlines the Guest Host communication (email, sms, WhatsApp, OTA messages, etc.) by supporting the Property Managers with time saving AI features, automations, templates and scheduling.
The Communications team is responsible for a critical part of the system and handles huge volumes of data and requests, and interacts with a variety of complex APIs - if this is something you have experience with and you are excited about you’ll be a great fit!
Senior Backend Engineers at Hostaway play a crucial role in designing,building, supporting and evolving the robust, scalable, and secure backend systems that power user-facing features. You will work closely with your cross-functional team to fully own and deliver solutions that address real customer needs, ensuring our platform remains reliable and extensible as we grow.