About VacationHomeRents
VacationHomeRents is building Kayak.com for Vacation Rentals. We are an accommodation meta-search website that helps travelers explore and find the best place to stay for their next trip. Currently over 10M unique travelers use VacationHomeRents every year and the number is growing rapidly.
About the team
- We are currently a team of 2
- Leo Li, Co-founder, was leading the SEO team at Airbnb
- Allan Jiang, Co-founder, was an engineer at Google and Coinbase
- Backed by the best investors such as Y Combinator, Tiger Global, and others
- We are a lean and fast-paced team with a strong growth mindset. We are looking for like-minded people to join us and grow together.
About the role
VacationHomeRents is hiring a fully remote experienced backend engineer to help build the best vacation rental meta-search website. You will be working on but not limited to:
- design and develop our core accommodation meta-search backend
- integrate with 3rd-party inventory and pricing data
- work closely with the founders to develop, iterate, and maintain the products
Since this is a fully remote role, in case you are not in the US, we expect at least 3 hours of overlap time with Pacific Time (UTC−08:00) for meetings and discussions.
About you
We are looking for candidates who:
- have 3+ years of experience in backend development in Node.js
- familiar with technologies such as MongoDB, Redis, Express.js, Nginx, k8s, Docker, Elastic Search
- familiar with AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Fluent in English communication
It's a big PLUS if you:
- have professional experience in travel products
- have full-stack web development experience (i.e. React, CSS, Next.js)
- have experience in designing and developing distributed systems, recommendation systems, search algorithms, or machine learning
- love travel
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