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.
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.
Collaborate and Influence: Work closely with product, design, finance, and legal teams to deliver a seamless product.
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.
Strong Architectural Instincts: You can design systems that start simple and evolve gracefully.
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.
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.

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.
Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company.
Values-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are not just words we’ve written to make us feel good.
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.
Dynamic Team Culture: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity.

Staff Backend Engineer – Accounting

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