Golang HousingAnywhere Jobs

Job Description

About HousingAnywhere

HousingAnywhere.com is the biggest global booking platform for mid-term rental accommodation in the world. Being a peer-to-peer marketplace, we create an experience that serves both sides of the rental accommodation market and creates a direct connection between tenants and landlords. HousingAnywhere.com is active in 50+ countries and 400+ cities. We are partners with 160+ universities worldwide and currently target the international students and young professionals market. We are expanding to other audiences as well.

In 2017, we were awarded 4th most innovative company in the Netherlands and the 1st most innovative company in Rotterdam by the Dutch Chamber of Commerce.

In 2018, we have been honored by being the fastest growing propTech company in the Netherlands as part of the Technology Fast 50 ranking of Deloitte.

The team

Our engineering team consists of a group of 30 people (product leads, engineering leads, architects, product owners, front-end engineers, back-end engineers, QA engineers and UX/UI designers), all passionate about our expertise.

Within the engineering team, we are organized in multiple cross-functional teams. By applying for this role, you will have the chance to become part of the Platform team.

We, the Platform team, are responsible for the core application of HousingAnywhere and are the team where it all started for HousingAnywhere. Here you’ll find those we call the “dinosaurs” of HousingAnywhere. Djordy, our CEO, started our team back when he was Head of Product.

We have ownership of listing management (listing creation, calendar management and listing representation) and also of chat and bookings functionalities. Down the line, everything we do should add to conversions and should help HousingAnywhere grow to be the number 1 market place for students and young professionals in the world.

Our mission as a team is to provide high-quality matching between tenants and landlords and to drive trust between the users of the marketplace. We think about these challenges every day in order to build a world-class product. If this sounds interesting to you, don't hesitate to read on.

About your role and impact in the platform team

HousingAnywhere has entered a scale-up phase in which we have seen impressive growth in terms of bookings and liquidity in the marketplace. This growth has brought us many technical challenges. On one end of the stack we build features and improvements to optimize conversions, on the other end we are making our infrastructure more resilient for future growth.

Some of the challenges we are tackling:

On the frontend side:

Consolidate our React based frontend with tests and consistent design Provide users with a more fulfilling mobile experience through PWA technologies and principles Integrate real-time technology to deliver content to users quickly Continuously improve SEO through performance and content delivery

On the backend side:

Pragmatically redesigning the core system to identify services and run them outside the main monolith Moving the core platform to Kubernetes and continuous deployment Rethinking the way we represent and store data to allow easier integrations through events and denormalization Monitoring and improving the performance of our private API. Your role in the team is to contribute to solving these challenges by implementing solutions and assisting our team so that our innovative technology can support future business needs.

As a Senior Software Engineer we expect you to mentor our less senior team members and to work closely with our team lead and PO to help them solve technical challenges they face.

We also expect you to challenge our choices and practices by bringing your opinion in the mix, because only by rethinking our best practices we can really evolve as people and as a company.

Our stack

In frontend we are React lovers. We use Redux, CSS-in-JS, TypeScript, NodeJS and all tools related to this stack. Our backend is powered by Golang backed with a Postgres database. We’re currently moving our backend to a service-oriented architecture (microservices). Our main infrastructure is in Google Cloud Platform. We've been using React, GraphQL and Golang in production environments since the early days. Since a few years we’ve started using Kubernetes and nowadays all our new services run in the cluster.

What we are looking for in a Senior Engineer:

• A product-oriented person: you love developing products that help people
• You take responsibility for the quality of your work, you like test automation and you are interested in TDD best practices
• You're a real team player. You understand your colleagues may have different opinions and you consider them to make our product better.
• Someone who is pragmatic
• Ability to find a clean and simple solution that could be easily adapted and scaled as the business evolves
• Leadership capabilities
• Interest in new technologies
• You understand that maintainable code is simple code that makes intentions explicit

Experience needed:

• Excellent skills in one of Javascript, Golang, C++ or any other of the main languages
• An educational degree in the field of Computer Science or similar is preferable, although passionate career changers are also welcome
• Experience with online marketplaces, service providers and/or API development
• Solid understanding of web user interface design and web development
• Have 10 years of experience in web development. If you think you can do the job with fewer years experience, don’t hesitate to apply as well.
• Basic understanding of how to prepare a good burger (our team lead even makes his own buns)

Perks & Benefits

What we offer:

• Friday drinks
• Flat organization structure
• Being part of a company that is scaling up with millions of monthly visits, and thousands of paying customers
• A career ladder: a structured way to take control of your career and your growth within HousingAnywhere
• Competitive salary
• Budget for laptop and for training
• The possibility to have a real impact on the core platform of the product
• Fun and international environment at the heart of Rotterdam. Our team consists of over 90+ people, with 25+ different nationalities.

Practical Info!

• Full-time position (40 hours a week).
• You will work from our office in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• Salary will match your experience.
• Starting: ASAP

Job Description

Our Vision 🌏🏡

To help people with housing, anywhere.

Our Mission 💻✨

Building a safe, efficient and global rental marketplace for anyone looking for or renting out a place.

Our Core Values 💛

We Care. We Perform. We Evolve.

Your Impact 💥

As we have reached the scaleup phase at HousingAnywhere, our rapid growth has brought on new challenges. We are rethinking the platform architecture to meet imminent growth needs. You will have the opportunities to bring in your ideas in the context of microservices, stream processing, API, security and data integrity.

At platform we are shaping the vision for the future architecture of HousingAnywhere. You will help other teams to build new features on top of our architecture, and make sure that concerns like reliability, security, privacy and performances are met.

We are pragmatic developers, and often we need to think out of the box to solve tricky technical challenges. Technology hypes inspire our work and give us ideas, but we realize that the context in which we build our solutions is what matters most. You will help us consider the challenges we face when adopting new technologies or techniques.

You will help your colleagues and your leaders to solve problems and move faster, as well as they will do with you.

Our mission as the platform team

As a Software Engineer for the Platform Team, you will be joining the team responsible for the backend logic of HousingAnywhere’s marketplace, and for standardizing the way our partners integrate with our platform.

Our team is here to provide HousingAnywhere with a scalable composable architecture that allows the organization to scale the business and teams on top of it.

We achieve our goals by:

• developing the technical vision and standards on the platform that accommodate the needs of the housing rental market for the next 10 years
• developing the standards for the exchange of information between systems in the accommodation rental market.

Let's work together on the following

• We are currently refactoring the monolith in context boundaries using Domain Driven Design techniques. Our goal is to come to an architecture that will allow us to break the monolith in microservices and break dependencies with the database.
• We are working on bootstrapping our journey to let partners integrate with our platform. We are defining and implementing the architecture that can integrate seamlessly the variegated technologies the industry uses.
• We are rethinking our approach to CI, and simplifying our suites of tests.
• We already extracted frontend as a service from the backend monolith, but the code still leaves in one repository. We want to gain independence by extracting backend code from frontend code and have separate deployment pipelines.
• We are working closely with the operations team to move our services to kubernetes. We are currently sending a small percentage of traffic to the cluster and are facing some performance issues. We are investigating possible next moves to fully work on the cluster.
• We are creating an internal RFC to plan how to move towards an event driven architecture by introducing Kafka. We are researching impacts, costs and value that we get by getting into such a path.

And our stack?

• Go
• Postgres
• Redis
• NSQ
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Github
• Google Cloud Platform
• GRPC/Protobuf

Who you are

• A product-oriented person: you love developing products that help people and you’re driven by the impact you can make.
• A problem solver: you structure your thoughts and you propose your ideas towards solving a problem or creating an opportunity.
• An advocate of clean,simple and pragmatic solutions. You always have intention, adaptability and scalability in mind.
• A real team player: You respect the work of all your colleagues no matter their seniority level. You also understand that making mistakes is part of the job and that the important thing is to learn from these mistakes. You are always keen to help others, but you are also not afraid of asking for help yourself.
• A great communicator. We don’t expect you to be a master story teller(although we do love stories), but we expect you to communicate your expectations clearly with all your stakeholders.
• A tech junkie! You are interested in new technologies and you constantly seek to improve personally, whether that is at work or in your spare time.

What we offer:

🚀Get ready to make a real impact and hit the ground running with early responsibilities. You have the opportunity to take full ownership of your work and dare to do things differently. Here, all ideas matter.

👩🏻👨🏾👦🏼👽 Work with a crazy unconventional team! Think 90 people from 30 different nationalities. It’s like being on a round-the-world trip while you’re in the office.

📈 Trainings, workshops, conferences, books. It’s up to you.

📚 Budget for Dutch or English classes to help you kick off your stay in the Netherlands, and help you immerse into the Dutch culture.

🌇 Work in the heart of Rotterdam in an office with an amazing view! If you're looking for a city that is always packed with new things to discover, amazing architecture, a strong international community, this is the perfect place for you!

👕We don’t care about what you wear. You’re welcome to wear a 3-piece tuxedo or even a dragon onesie, we won’t judge you. Maybe a little.

🍻 Beers & Cheers! Get to know your colleagues over drinks while we celebrate our achievements every Friday.

✈️Are you coming from abroad? No worries, we’ve got you covered!

Practicalities

• Full-time position (40 hours a week) w/ schedule flexibility
• You will work from our HQ in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• Relocation/work permit support provided

Got Questions?

Email Claire at [email protected] 🙋🏻

Interview Process

• Short call with a recruiter to talk (15-20 minutes)
• Technical assessment to complete at home
• Technical Interview with Team Leads
• Final Interview with VP of Engineering and a Product Owner

Job Description

About HousingAnywhere

HousingAnywhere.com is the biggest global booking platform for mid-term rental accommodation in the world. Being a peer-to-peer marketplace, we create an experience that serves both sides of the rental accommodation market and creates a direct connection between tenants and landlords. HousingAnywhere.com is active in 50+ countries and 400+ cities. We are partners with 160+ universities worldwide and currently target the international students and young professionals market. We are expanding to other audiences as well.

In 2017, we were awarded 4th most innovative company in the Netherlands and the 1st most innovative company in Rotterdam by the Dutch Chamber of Commerce.

In 2018, we have been honored by being the fastest growing propTech company in the Netherlands as part of the Technology Fast 50 ranking of Deloitte.

The team

Our engineering team consists of a group of 30 people (product leads, engineering leads, architects, product owners, front-end engineers, back-end engineers, QA engineers and UX/UI designers), all passionate about our expertise.

Within the engineering team, we are organized in multiple cross-functional teams. By applying for this role, you will have the chance to become part of the Payments team.

We, the Payments team, are responsible for all payments flows of our platform. Which means we take ownership of the following:

Payments and payouts: internal payments system that handles receiving and sending out the money; integrations with payment gateways and other tools

• Commission: calculation and handling commission HousingAnywhere takes for providing service
• Invoicing
• Users payment details: various payment and payout methods and overviews
• New awesome features such as rent collection service, payment requests etc
• Our mission as a team is to provide a seamless payment experience for landlords collecting rent through the platform, tenants paying the rent as well as for our finances team overseeing the process.

About your role and impact in the payments team

HousingAnywhere has entered a scale-up phase in which we have seen impressive growth in terms of bookings and liquidity in the marketplace. This growth has brought us many technical challenges. On one end of the stack we build features and improvements to optimize conversions, on the other end we are making our infrastructure more resilient for future growth.

Your role in the team is to contribute to solving these challenges by implementing solutions and assisting our team so that our innovative technology can support future business needs.

As a Senior Software Engineer we expect you to mentor our less senior team members and to work closely with our team lead and PO to help them solve technical challenges they face.

We also expect you to challenge our choices and practices by bringing your opinion in the mix, because only by rethinking our best practices we can really evolve as persons and as a company.

Some of your responsibilities will be:

• Providing a seamless experience for tenants and advertisers when dealing with all money things in the platform
• Working together with the Finances team to develop tools that make their work auditing, processing and validating payouts easier and more reliable
• Developing fault tolerant finances microservices
• Monitoring and improving the performance the APIs
• Managing our services in Kubernetes cluster and through CI/CD

Our stack

In frontend we are React lovers. We use TypeScript, CSS-in-JS, Redux and all tools related to this stack. Our backend is powered by Golang backed with a Postgres database and NSQ messaging. Our main infrastructure is in Google Cloud Platform.

Sounds like a match? Apply and become part of our team!

What we are looking for in a Senior Software Engineer:

• A product-oriented person: you have the internal and final users in mind
• You take responsibility for the quality of your work, you like test automation and you are interested in TDD best practices
• You're a real team player. You understand your colleagues may have different opinions and you consider them to make our product better
• Someone who is pragmatic
• Ability to find a clean and simple solution that could be easily adapted and scaled as the business evolves
• Leadership capabilities
• Interest in new technologies
• You understand that maintainable code is simple code that makes intentions explicit

Experience needed:

• Excellent skills in one of Golang, C++ or any other of the main languages
• An educational degree in the field of Computer Science or similar is preferable, although passionate career changers are also welcome
• Solid understanding of web user interface design and web development
• Have 7 years of experience in web development. If you think you can do the job with fewer years experience, don’t hesitate to apply as well
• Experience with payment systems is a plus
• Basic understanding of how to prepare a good (veggie) burger

Perks & Benefits

What we offer:

• Friday drinks
• Being part of a company that is scaling up with millions of monthly visits, and thousands of paying customers
• A career ladder: a structured way to take control of your career and your growth within HousingAnywhere
• Competitive salary
• Budget for laptop and for training
• The possibility to have a real impact on the way people pay through the product
• Fun and international environment at the heart of Rotterdam. Our team consists of over 90+ people, with 25+ different nationalities.

Practical Info:

• Full-time position (40 hours a week).
• You will work from our office in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. No Remote.
• Salary will match your experience.
• Starting: ASAP.

Job Description

About HousingAnywhere

HousingAnywhere.com is the biggest global booking platform for mid-term rental accommodation in the world. Being a peer-to-peer marketplace, we create an experience that serves both sides of the rental accommodation market and creates a direct connection between tenants and landlords. HousingAnywhere.com is active in 50+ countries and 400+ cities. We are partners with 160+ universities worldwide and currently target the international students and young professionals market. We are expanding to other audiences as well.

In 2017, we were awarded 4th most innovative company in the Netherlands and the 1st most innovative company in Rotterdam by the Dutch Chamber of Commerce.

In 2018, we have been honored by being the fastest growing propTech company in the Netherlands as part of the Technology Fast 50 ranking of Deloitte.

The team

Our engineering team consists of a group of 30 people (product leads, engineering leads, architects, product owners, front-end engineers, back-end engineers, QA engineers and UX/UI designers), all passionate about our expertise.

Within the engineering team, we are organized in multiple cross-functional teams. By applying for this role, you will have the chance to become part of the Payments team.

We, the Payments team, are responsible for all payments flows of our platform. This means that we take ownership of the following:

• Payments and payouts: internal payments system that handles receiving and sending out the money; integrations with payment gateways and other tools
• Commission: calculation and handling commission HousingAnywhere takes for providing service
• Invoicing
• Users payment details: various payment and payout methods and overviews
• New awesome features such as rent collection service, payment requests etc
• Our mission as a team is to provide a seamless payment experience for landlords collecting rent through the platform, tenants paying that rent as well as for our finances team overseeing the process.

About your role and impact in the payments team

HousingAnywhere has entered a scale-up phase in which we have seen impressive growth in terms of bookings and liquidity in the marketplace. This growth has brought us many technical challenges. On one end of the stack we build features and improvements to optimize conversions, on the other end we are making our infrastructure more resilient for future growth.

Your role in the team is to contribute to solving these challenges by implementing solutions and assisting our team so that our innovative technology can support future business needs.

As a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead we expect you to mentor our less senior team members, collaborate with other team leads to align dependencies and to work closely with our Product Owner (PO) to make sure the team achieves its goals and delivers value to the business.

We also expect you to challenge our choices and practices by bringing your opinion in the mix, because only by rethinking our best practices we can really evolve as persons and as a company.

Some of your responsibilities will be:

• Work together with our PO to set the quarterly team goals and make sure the team delivers them
• Collaborate with the architects and the other team leads to align dependencies between teams and make sure common architectural and best practices are followed
• Mentor the team members
• Providing a seamless experience for tenants and advertisers when dealing with all money flows in the platform
• Working together with the Finances team to develop tools that make their work auditing, processing and validating payouts easier and more reliable
• Developing fault tolerant finances microservices
• Monitoring and improving the performance the APIs
• Managing our services in Kubernetes cluster and through CI/CD

Our stack

In frontend we are React lovers. We use TypeScript, CSS-in-JS, Redux and all tools related to this stack. Our backend is powered by Golang backed with a Postgres database and NSQ messaging. Our main infrastructure is in Google Cloud Platform.

Sounds like a match? Apply and become part of our team!

What we are looking for in a Team Lead & Senior Engineer:

• A product-oriented person: you have the internal and final users in mind
• You take responsibility for the quality of your work, you like test automation and you are interested in TDD best practices
• You're a real team player. You understand your colleagues may have different opinions and you consider them to make our product better
• Someone who is pragmatic
• Ability to find a clean and simple solution that could be easily adapted and scaled as the business evolves
• Leadership capabilities
• Interest in new technologies
• You understand that maintainable code is simple code that makes intentions explicit

Experience needed:

• Excellent skills in one of Javascript, Golang, C++ or any other of the main languages
• An educational degree in the field of Computer Science or similar is preferable, although passionate career changers are also welcome
• Solid understanding of web user interface design and web development
• Have 7 years of experience in web development. If you think you can do the job with fewer years experience, don’t hesitate to apply as well
• Experience in leadership positions
• Experience with payment systems is a plus
• Basic understanding of how to prepare a good (veggie) burger

Practical Info!

• Full-time position (40 hours a week).
• You will work from our office in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• Salary will match your experience.
• Starting: ASAP.

Perks & Benefits

What we offer:

• Friday drinks
• Being part of a company that is scaling up with millions of monthly visits, and thousands of paying customers
• A career ladder: a structured way to take control of your career and your growth within HousingAnywhere
• Competitive salary
• Budget for laptop and for training
• The possibility to have a real impact on the way people pay through the product
• Fun and international environment at the heart of Rotterdam. Our team consists of over 90+ people, with 25+ different nationalities.

Interview Process

1- Non-technical interview with an engineering team lead

2- technical assessment/contribution

3- Technical interview with 2 engineers

4- Final interview with VP of Engineering + a Product Owner