Engineer, Backend Developer

Hostie is your restaurant’s Virtual Concierge, making sure every call, text, or question gets answered in your voice. Behind the scenes, we handle guest communication, reservations, events, and takeout automatically, all in one place. Hostie takes care of the noise so your staff can focus on the service.

Restaurants across North America use Hostie to ensure no guest goes unanswered while giving their teams more time to focus on hospitality.

Hostie integrates with platforms like Open Table, Toast, and Seven Rooms and is backed by Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), Obvious Ventures (founded by Ev Williams), and leading hospitality investors.

• Build and ship complete features end-to-end. You’ll write clean, maintainable code to rollout and monitoring in production
• Collaborate closely with the founders, PMs, Sales and CS to understand product requirements and navigate trade-offs
• Take ownership of your work with a strong attention to detail and a bias toward getting things done
• Contribute across the full stack with a lean toward backend and distributed systems as you grow your depth over time
• Learn fast, ask good questions, and raise the bar

• 2–4 years of professional software engineering experience shipping high quality code
• Ability to work independently with a strong sense of ownership. We ll give you the keys and projects, but we want you to act like an owner.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving instincts; you dig in until you understand why and fix the core issues vs just the ticket
• Strong communicator who can collaborate across engineering, product, and sales

• Familiarity with our stack:
  Type Script, Node.js, Next.js, React, LLM-agnostic and Mongo.
• Any experience with real-time systems or event-driven architectures (Web Sockets, etc.)
• Experience integrating third-party APIs.
• Curiosity about or hands-on experimentation with LLM APIs — you ve built something with them, even if it’s with Claude Code