Full Stack Engineer

Overview

About Vacation Renter
Vacation Renter is the fastest growing vacation rental search engine. We love traveling, but not how time-consuming and complex it can be to find the right place to stay. So we reimagined a better way. We eliminated the need to search across several sites and scroll through pages of irrelevant results just to find the perfect home away from home.

We aggregate accommodations from the top travel sites, giving travelers all the best options in one place. Vacation Renter was born inside the startup studio Wilbur Labs. Vacation Renter uses automation and AI to help travelers find the perfect stay. Be sure to check out our rebranded site,  Vogo is the same company travelers have come to love but under a new name.

• Collaborate closely with leadership, product, and engineering teams to design, architect, and deliver end-to-end features across our platform
• Build and maintain user-facing applications using React, Next.js, and Type Script, ensuring high performance, accessibility, and a great user experience
• Develop and optimize backend services using Node.js, integrating with Postgre
  
  SQL and other internal systems
• Contribute to all parts of the business where software is needed, including internal tools, back office systems, data integrations, warehousing, and reporting
• Work in partnership with the existing engineering team to amplify collective output, share knowledge, and uphold high standards of code quality and system reliability
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and ongoing improvements to our development practices, tooling, and infrastructure

• 3+ years of backend software engineering experience
• Experience with Node.js and Postgre
  
  SQL (or equivalent relational databases)
• Experience with React, Next.js, and Tailwind
• SQL skills - able to write, debug, and optimize queries
• Solid understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, and scalability principles
• Experience with Dev Ops practices and cloud infrastructure (preferably Google Cloud or AWS), including CI/CD, monitoring, and infrastructure as code
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a self-driven, ownership mentality
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

• Experience in the travel, marketplace, or e-commerce space
• Experience scaling systems to millions of daily users
• Contributions to open-source projects or tech communities
• Experience with Google Cloud or an equivalent cloud services platform

• Competitive salary + equity
• Top-tier laptop provided; 100% company-paid health benefits for base plan coverage, with the option to upgrade to higher-tier plans
• 401(k) with company match
• Unlimited, guilt-free vacation days
• Annual wellness stipend (gym + other wellness activities)
• Monthly house cleaning stipend
• Annual travel allowance
• Monthly cell phone & internet usage stipend
• Charity donation company match
• Employee referral bonus
• Team offsites/activities

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.