Senior Frontend Engineer, Communications - 100 Remote - EMEA

NOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within EMEA to collaborate with their team, peers, and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing, but please only apply if you are physically based within EMEA.

Trusted by 20,000+ property managers worldwide, Hostaway is an industry leading, AI-powered vacation rental management platform designed for professional short-term rental operators. Hostaway brings everything together for greater efficiency and faster growth.

Profitable, high-growth, and the first short-term rental PMS unicorn 🦄. Join us at our most exciting stage yet! Learn more about our recent valuation and story here .

About the role

As a Senior Frontend Engineer at Hostaway , you'll take ownership of building and evolving the interfaces that our customers rely on every day. You'll be a key contributor to our frontend architecture, working in close collaboration with Product, Design, and Backend teams to deliver intuitive, high-performance experiences at scale.

Your responsibility won't end at release - you'll monitor software in production, troubleshoot issues, and drive ongoing improvements to performance, stability, and user experience. Beyond shipping features, you'll help raise the bar across the team through code reviews, mentorship, and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-quality UI components, features, and reusable libraries that support our design system.

Develop intuitive, performant, accessible, and responsive user experiences across browsers and devices.

Build and maintain frontend integrations with backend services, including REST APIs, webhooks, and WebSocket-based real-time functionality.

Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex frontend issues, including memory leaks, performance bottlenecks, and production bugs.

Define, present, and lead relevant technical initiatives with a clear understanding of the challenge, why it matters, and the impact the delivery brings.

Contribute to testing, code reviews, architecture decisions, and engineering best practices to ensure quality and maintainability.

Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and support the monitoring and reliability of released software in production.

Requirements

6+ years of frontend software development experience, with a strong track record of building scalable, maintainable applications.

Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS and HTML.

Experience with state management solutions such as Redux, Context API, or similar.

Hands-on experience integrating with backend systems using REST APIs, webhooks, and/or WebSockets.

Strong ability to diagnose and fix memory leaks, frontend performance issues, and browser/runtime inefficiencies.

Experience with testin