The Role
As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain user-facing applications and backend services, collaborating closely across teams for improved performance and user experience.
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About VacationRenter
VacationRenter 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.
VacationRenter was born inside the startup studio Wilbur Labs. VacationRenter uses automation and AI to help travelers find the perfect stay. Be sure to check out our rebranded site, Vogo.com. Vogo is the same company travelers have come to love but under a new name.
About This Role
VacationRenter is seeking a versatile and highly skilled Full Stack Engineer to join our engineering organization. In this role, the engineer will shape the traveler experience end-to-end, building intuitive user interfaces while also crafting the backend services that power them. The role spans our modern frontend and backend stack to deliver high-quality, high-impact features, from translating design specs into elegant UI components to implementing robust APIs that ensure seamless integration. You’ll have direct influence on technical decisions, architecture, and best practices, while contributing to the direction and culture of the engineering team.
The ideal candidate thrives in an ownership-driven environment, enjoys solving complex problems, and takes pride in building polished, user-facing experiences backed by scalable, reliable systems. The engineer will collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver new features, improve performance, and help scale the platform to support millions of users.
This role will report directly to the Head of Engineering. This is a full-time hybrid position, based in Dallas.
Role & Responsibilities:
- 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 TypeScript, ensuring high performance, accessibility, and a great user experience
- Develop and optimize backend services using Node.js, integrating with PostgreSQL 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
Minimum Qualifications:
- 3+ years of backend software engineering experience
- Experience with Node.js and PostgreSQL (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 DevOps 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
Preferred Qualifications & Prior Experience:
- 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
Benefits & Perks:
- Competitive salary + equity
- Top-tier laptop provided100% 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
Top Skills
AWS
GCP
Next.Js
Node.js
Postgres
React
Tailwindcss
Typescript
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The Company
What We Do
The studio identifies big customer pain points and builds businesses to solve these problems. After an idea is validated in the lab, the studio brings in industry leaders with domain expertise to manage the company. Wilbur Labs continues to provide funding, shared resources, and operational support to ensure management is focused on solving problems that matter. Wilbur Labs was founded in 2016 by Phil Santoro and David Kolodny.
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