About the job

KYC Hospitality is the global technology ecosystem for Hotels, focused on revolutionizing the archaic workflow that has plagued the industry for decades as well as introducing AI-focused systems to enhance every aspect of the Guest experience.

Our team includes Founders and Executives of most of the major Hotel brands including Four Seasons, Fairmont and Intercontinental. We are funded by several of the world’s most iconic investors as well as highly respected Silicon Valley investors.

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Full Stack PHP/JS engineer will be responsible for developing, securing, and scaling our large and complex hotel management platform. This role’s focus will be to develop, maintain, and continually improve our SaaS platform, based on Laravel and Vue.js.

Our Full Stack engineers need to be very detail-oriented, with organizational and problem-solving skills, plus the ability to communicate clearly with all departments, from engineers to the CEO.

Responsibilities

• Develop new features to support our rapidly growing business
• Assume leadership of new projects, from conceptualization to deployment
• Build world-class full-stack enterprise B2B software
• Write secure, documented, maintainable software in a team environment
• Work closely with the development, QA, DevOps, and business teams
• Troubleshoot and fix bugs and other problems
• Continually improve the security, reliability, and scale of the platform
• Continually help improve the development, build, test, and deployment processes
• Maintain high standards for code quality and application design
• Stay updated with current technologies and industry trends

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Qualifications

• Proven experience of 5+ years of developing web applications using PHP & Laravel
• Experience building modern SaaS applications
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies and principles
• Great team player and able to work efficiently with minimal supervision
• Understanding of security and scaling aspects for full-stack web applications

Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum 5 years building SaaS software (not Wordpress, Magento, etc.)
• Minimum 5 years experience in backend development in PHP, mostly in Laravel
• Minimum 3 years experience in either Vue.js or React.js
• Unit Testing experience
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Helpful Skills & Experience

• Hotel software & operations
• Multi-Tenant Test Data & Scenarios
• Elasticsearch experience
• Mocking services & advanced testing
• Test-Driven Development
• Extensive experience in AWS infrastructure, including Automation & Monitoring
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and APM/RUM platforms such as Datadog
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD systems
• Experience with testing platforms, data, and tooling
• Experience in securing AWS and web applications

Character

We’re a tight-knit team. Every one of us genuinely loves what we do; we love KYC and we’re in this to win for the right reasons- we want to create a happier world through happier travelers and yes, we each have our unique set of life goals that we hope KYC can enable us to achieve. Most importantly, we are a team that places utmost priority on mutual respect, kindness and empathy. We have zero tolerance for disrespectful and inappropriate behavior, crass language, laziness, lack of integrity, racism, ageism, sexism or any other kind of negative -ism you can think of.

COMPENSATION & PERKS

Work from home most of the time and avoid wasting your life in traffic. Our team meets an average of 2 days per month. The exceptions are 1) when you’re onboarding we’ll need to meet with you 3-5 days in a row and 2) when we’re onboarding a major client or releasing critical features, our Team may need to meet more frequently.