Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hostie is your restaurant’s Virtual Concierge, ensuring every guest communication is handled seamlessly. The Engineer will build and ship complete features, collaborate with various teams, and take ownership of their work while contributing across the full stack, particularly in backend and distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship complete features end-to-end. You’ll write clean, maintainable code to rollout and monitoring in production
- Collaborate closely with the founders, PMs, Sales and CS to understand product requirements and navigate trade-offs
- Take ownership of your work with a strong attention to detail and a bias toward getting things done
- Contribute across the full stack with a lean toward backend and distributed systems as you grow your depth over time
- Learn fast, ask good questions, and raise the bar
Skills
- 2–4 years of professional software engineering experience shipping high quality code
- Ability to work independently with a strong sense of ownership
- Excellent debugging and problem-solving instincts; you dig in until you understand why and fix the core issues vs just the ticket
- Strong communicator who can collaborate across engineering, product, and sales
- Familiarity with our stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, React, LLM-agnostic and Mongo
- Any experience with real-time systems or event-driven architectures (WebSockets, etc.)
- Experience integrating third-party APIs
- Curiosity about or hands-on experimentation with LLM APIs — you've built something with them, even if it's with Claude Code
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