Staff Backend Engineer, Money Movement

• Lead greenfield development and own the architecture and technical vision for the V1 Trust Accounting product
• Design and implement secure, scalable, and auditable backend services
• Establish quality gates, robust testing, and CI/CD integration
• Drive best practices for system design, observability, security, quality, resilience, and financial accuracy
• Collaborate with product, design, finance, and legal teams
• Provide technical context to foster transparency and accountability
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, architectural guidance, and hands-on pairing
• Shape architecture, processes, technical direction, and delivery as a founding team member
• Deliver a reliable, high-throughput, low-error Trust Accounting subsystem that integrates with the Hostaway platform

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• At least 2 years operating at a Staff Engineer or equivalent level
• High proficiency in a backend language for building production-grade services
• Experience building, shipping, and operating critical backend systems serving real users at scale
• Understanding of reliability, observability, and failure modes
• Ability to design systems that start simple and evolve gracefully
• Experience driving adoption of platforms, patterns, or standards across teams
• Comfort with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and operating services in production
• Curiosity and adaptability to integrate with code across multiple technologies
• Nice to have: familiarity with financial systems, accounting principles, or ledger products
• Nice to have: hands-on production experience with Golang

• Competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant
• 100% remote work from anywhere within your country of residence
• Valuable stock options
• Professional growth, learning and development opportunities
• Career advancement opportunities
• Annual paid leave aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms
• Country-specific benefits such as health insurance and pensions where customary
• Dynamic international team culture
• Global company with team members in over 40 countries