Senior Frontend Engineer, Communications - 100% Remote - EMEA

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 country or 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 PMS unicorn 🦄. Join us at our most exciting stage yet! Learn more about our recent valuation and story here.

About the role

As a Senior Frontend Engineer at Hostaway, you'll take ownership of building and evolving the interfaces that our customers rely on every day. You'll be a key contributor to our frontend architecture, working in close collaboration with Product, Design, and Backend teams to deliver intuitive, high-performance experiences at scale. 

Your responsibility won't end at release - you'll monitor software in production, troubleshoot issues, and drive ongoing improvements to performance, stability, and user experience. Beyond shipping features, you'll help raise the bar across the team through code reviews, mentorship, and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-quality UI components, features, and reusable libraries that support our design system.

• Develop intuitive, performant, accessible, and responsive user experiences across browsers and devices.

• Build and maintain frontend integrations with backend services, including REST APIs, webhooks, and WebSocket-based real-time functionality.

• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex frontend issues, including memory leaks, performance bottlenecks, and production bugs.

• Define, present, and lead relevant technical initiatives with a clear understanding of the challenge, why it matters, and the impact the delivery brings.

• Contribute to testing, code reviews, architecture decisions, and engineering best practices to ensure quality and maintainability.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and support the monitoring and reliability of released software in production.

• 6+ years of frontend software development experience, with a strong track record of building scalable, maintainable applications.

• Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS and HTML.

• Experience with state management solutions such as Redux, Context API, or similar.

• Hands-on experience integrating with backend systems using REST APIs, webhooks, and/or WebSockets.

• Strong ability to diagnose and fix memory leaks, frontend performance issues, and browser/runtime inefficiencies.

• Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, Cypress, or Playwright,

• Proficiency monitoring and supporting production software.

• Demonstrated expertise in cloud-native development, with a strong understanding of how to build and maintain resilient and scalable frontend architectures in a cloud environment.

Bonus points for

• Experience working on a mature SaaS product, with a focus on improving and extending the UI for a large user base.

• Experience with cloud-native applications, particularly on AWS.

What we offer

• 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).

Thank you for your interest. If you apply for this role, you will receive an email from our Talent Acquisition team after your application has been reviewed alongside the qualifications for this role and the qualifications of others who have applied.