Beyond powers the business of short-term rentals with a best-in-class Revenue Management System used by thousands of property managers and owners around the world. We’re profitable, growing fast, and building with the latest technologies—including AI—to help our customers unlock more revenue with less effort. Behind our product is a global team of 180+ Beyonders who bring curiosity, craft, and care to everything we do. We believe people are the most important part of any business, starting with ours.
As a Senior Backend Engineer with Beyond, you will have the opportunity to build the next evolution of our SaaS-based product as well as work on new products. Because you will be working with a successful team that is completely remote, excellent coding and communication skills are key. This is a great opportunity for someone to work closely with the entire product life cycle from concept to go-to-market! If you enjoy rolling up your sleeves and jumping in, then read on!
Before reading further...
Beyond is passionate about diversity and cultivating our team’s potential. If you’re hungry for a good opportunity, but don't meet every point in this job description, please apply anyway!
Our team believes in:
- Reducing scope - The best way to control progress and test hypotheses is to prevent scope creep;
- Shipping early - The best way to learn early is to ship early. No need to be perfect;
- Iterating and improving - Once we get the feedback we need, we iterate and improve;
- Taking ownership - The code we ship is our responsibility as we know it best;
- Delivering value - By focussing on providing the best customer experience, we improve acquisition and retention and drive revenue.
As our Senior Software Engineer, Backend you will be responsible for:
- Collaborating with your peers from product, design, and engineering on a cross-functional, outcome-based team to craft and deliver on OKRs
- Helping drive your team through large projects autonomously, while continuously assessing and communicating progress and iterating on solutions.
- Collaborating and recommending architectural solutions, while understanding and explaining trade-offs around time to market, structural and functional quality, security, maintainability, resources, and scope.
- Supporting and maintaining the existing code baseline and products.
- Exercising and improving Beyond’s engineering practices such as refactoring, pairing, code reviews, collective code ownership, containers, IaC, CI/CD, observability.
So what kind of person are we looking for in this role? The person who will be successful in this role will be:
- Curious - You are driven to understand how things work or why they don't. You are interested in finding out how your work impacts our customers and the world they live in.
- Collaborative - You enjoy exploring and committing as a team, you welcome others' ideas, and you value teamwork and team decision-making over being right and having things going your way.
- Result-oriented - You manage the trade-offs between speed and quality and are able to find the right balance. You would rather ship, measure, learn and iterate, rather than code the perfect component on the first try.
- Resilient - You can adapt and roll up your sleeves to help others. You operate at a stable pace with visibility most of the time and you are ready to embrace change when it happens.
- Proactive - You take initiative to identify opportunities and drive projects forward with minimal direction, independently navigating ambiguity to deliver impactful results.
Now that we’ve told you what the job looks like, here are the qualifications we're looking for in a candidate:
- 5+ years of experience building services in a multi-tenant SaaS environment
- Expertise in Python, Django, SQL, Postgres
- A predisposition for a fast-paced environment where we put an emphasis on delivering value for our customers, while learning, growing, and experimenting
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience with React is a nice to have
Company Values:
We are serious about our core values: We Care, We Are On the Same Team, We Inspire Trust, We Go Beyond, We Ship It, We're Curious. If those resonate with you, and you're ready to work with a team that lives and breathes those values, we want to hear from you.
Benefits:
Beyond offers a wide variety of benefits like: stock options, unlimited PTO, private health insurance and more! You can learn more about our benefits by visiting our careers site!
We Care about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:
Beyond is committed to building a workplace that attracts humans of all genders, ethnicities, backgrounds, statuses and lifestyles. At our core, we care about our people and encourage every employee, partner and applicant to share their whole self with us. We are respectful of and empathetic towards different viewpoints, and believe that our ability to help short term rental managers succeed relies on us building a dynamic and diverse team. Whoever you are, you can Belong @ Beyond.
AI Policy:
At Beyond, We Inspire Trust. In each other, in our process, and in the people we bring onto the team. As part of that commitment, we’re implementing clear guidelines around the use of AI in our recruitment processes. Please review the full policy here.
Any communication regarding job openings, interviews and/or offers will come from our @beyondpricing.com email domain
Please review our GDPR Statement here.
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What We Do
Beyond is the #1 Revenue Management Platform for short-term rental owners and managers to get, grow, and keep revenue. Our easy-to-use platform includes a dynamic, demand-driven pricing tool with extensive market data that pairs with OTA distribution and a best-in-class booking engine.
But we are so much more than that.
We are innovators. We are a leader in the short-term rental industry, building products that help property managers and small business owners to be successful. We set out to fill a real need in the industry, and we have organized our entire company such that our success hinges on our customers’ success.
We are results-oriented. We take pride in what we accomplish. We set transparent goals that we share out across the company, and we work tirelessly to smash them. We encourage Beyonders to grow by setting individual career goals, and we support everyone on their journey to meet those goals.
We are people first. We would not be successful without the brilliant people that have helped us to get to where we are today. We have a global workforce that is proud of their diversity of experiences, demographics and backgrounds. We believe that creating an environment where people can feel comfortable to be themselves also empowers them to perform at their best.
We are values-driven. We have five core values that provide structure for our company decisions, interactions, and work: We Care, We Go Beyond, We Are On The Same Team, We Inspire Trust and We Ship It. If these values resonate with you, then you Belong at Beyond too.
To date, we've supported over 340,000 properties in more than 7,500 cities worldwide and have enabled billions of dollars in booking revenue.
Why Work With Us
Beyond is a people-first, results-oriented, and innovative company, with a flexible work environment. At Beyond, we launch and accelerate careers, are transparent, are a global team, are an industry leader, and our core values (We Go Beyond, We Care, We're on the Same Team, We Inspire Trust, and We Ship It) are at the center of everything do.
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