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.
It's with that in mind that Beyond is looking to add a Senior Staff Engineer to our growing team. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will have the opportunity to build the next evolution of our vertical SaaS and vertical agent product offerings. Because you will be working with a successful team that is fully remote, excellent communication skills are key. This is a great opportunity for you 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! You can find more info on our engineering practice here.
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!
As our Staff Engineer, you'll be responsible for:
- Leading cross-team projects and initiatives, facilitating inter-team communication and collaboration
- Mentoring engineers and fostering their growth, coaching teams to continuously improve delivery pace and quality, and providing feedback to support career development
- Acting as a force multiplier by building systems, authoring tools, or introducing policies and patterns that raise organizational productivity
- Strategic Technical Direction:
- Setting long-term strategic technical direction (6+ months ahead), identifying areas of greatest need and opportunity across the engineering organization, and creating plans for improvement with stakeholder buy-in
- Navigating ambiguity effectively, defining next steps that align with Engineering and company needs, and stepping in as a contributor on any team when needed
- Architecture & Technical Excellence:
- Collaborating and recommending architectural solutions, while understanding and explaining trade-offs around time to market, structural and functional quality, security, maintainability, resources, and scope
- Using data and facts to debate technical architecture decisions with team members and stakeholders to gain buy-in
- Exercising and improving Beyond's engineering practices such as refactoring, pairing, code reviews, collective code ownership, containers, IaC, CI/CD, observability
- System Reliability & Operations:
- Leading follow-up on incidents, proactively improving systems to prevent recurrence, and enhancing monitoring capabilities for faster detection
- Supporting and maintaining the existing code baseline and products
- Fostering cost-awareness by advocating for cost-saving initiatives and diligently monitoring spending across existing systems
Now that we’ve told you what the job looks like, here are the qualifications we're looking for in a candidate:
- Technical Expertise:
- 9+ years of experience building services in a multi-tenant SaaS environment with whole platform scope
- Experience with Python/Django
- Expert-level proficiency in primary focus area (Backend/Frontend/Data/DevOps) with strong proficiency across all systems and platform layers. For reference, our core stack includes: Data (DataProc, Delta Lake, Airflow, PySpark, Kafka, DBT, Postgres, ClickHouse), Application Development (Postgres, RabbitMQ, Redis, Django, React), Infrastructure (GCP compute engine, Hetzner, Ansible, Terraform, Nomad, Docker, uwsgi, nginx, Datadog, Sentry, Mezmo, PostHog), and LLMs (LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith)
- Leadership & Project Management:
- 4+ years of experience as a tech lead, including leading cross-team initiatives and projects
- Proven track record of championing and executing 2+ technical migrations or large multi-month platform projects
- Experience mentoring engineers, supporting their career growth, and fostering team development
- Product & Business Mindedness:
- Strong product and business mindedness with demonstrated ability to connect technical work to measurable business outcomes (revenue growth, customer retention, operational efficiency) and making revenue-driven technical decisions that optimize for business impact rather than technical elegance
- Operational Excellence & SLA-Driven Engineering:
- Demonstrated expertise with CI/CD operational excellence, trunk-based development, and feature flagging for controlled deployments
- Experience with comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability systems focused on business-critical functionality
- Domain-Driven Architecture & Autonomous Teams:
- Experience with autonomous team structures following high cohesion, loose coupling principles for independent decision-making
- Demonstrates a strong grasp of Conway’s Law, recognizing how team design influences system design while focusing their own work on the system side.
- Strategic & Communication Skills:
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in ambiguous scopes, defining outcomes and setting medium-term strategic technical direction (6+ months ahead)
- Proven ability to use data and facts to gain buy-in for architectural decisions and facilitate cross-team collaboration
- Experience working across multiple products/key components with organizational-level technical decision-making
- Culture & Mindset:
- A predisposition for a fast-paced environment where we put an emphasis on delivering value for our customers, while learning, growing, and experimenting
- Collaborative problem-solving approach with ability to "disagree and commit," leaving ego at the door to energetically discuss optimal solutions and viewing failures as learning opportunities
- Experience thriving in fully remote environments with strong pairing and mob programming practices that enhance code quality, knowledge sharing, and prevent single points of failure
- Adaptive execution mindset that values delivering on company objectives over rigid plan adherence, staying responsive to data and market feedback while maintaining strategic focus
So what can you expect after you apply? Your application will be personally reviewed by a member of the Beyond hiring team and if there is a match in your experience and the role, you will:
- Have a video conversation with someone on our Recruiting team. This is a high-level conversation about your experience and interest, but also an opportunity for you to learn more about us
- Interview with our VP of Engineering
- Complete a technical assignment via Github that will then be reviewed by members of our engineering team
- Complete a live architecture interview
- Interview with our VP of Product
- Have a final interview with one of our Directors of Engineering
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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