Full Stack Engineer

About Vacation Renter

Vacation Renter is the fastest growing vacation rental search engine. We love travel, but not how time‑consuming and complex it can be to find the right place to stay. So we reimagined a better way. We eliminated the need to search across several different sites and scroll through pages of irrelevant results just to find the perfect home away from home.

We bring all the lodging options from the leading travel sites together in one place and showcase only the best results for each traveler. Vacation Renter was founded in 2018, hit over $1 billion in gross bookings by 2020, and was named to Similar Web’s 100 fast‑growing websites list in 2020 and 2024. We are a Miami‑based startup studio originally named Wilbur Labs, founded by ex‑Googlers.

Vacation Renter is looking for a versatile and highly skilled Full Stack Software Engineer to join our engineering organization. As a Full Stack Engineer, you will shape the traveler experience from end to end, building intuitive user interfaces while also crafting the backend services that power them. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver new features, improve performance, and help scale our platform to support millions of users.

This is a full‑time hybrid position based in Dallas and will report directly to the Head of Engineering.

• Collaborate closely with leadership, product, and engineering teams to design, architect, and deliver end‑to‑end features across our platform
• Build and maintain user‑facing applications using React/Next.js and Type Script, ensuring high performance, accessibility, and great user experience
• Develop and optimize backend services using Node.js, integrating with Postgre
  
  SQL and other internal systems
• Contribute to all parts of the business where software is needed, including internal tools, back office systems, data integrations, warehousing, and reporting
• Work in partnership with the existing engineering team to amplify collective output, share knowledge, and uphold high standards of code quality and system reliability
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and ongoing improvements to our development practices, tooling, and infrastructure

• 3+ years of backend software engineering experience
• Experience with Node.js and Postgre
  
  SQL (or equivalent relational databases)
• Experience with React, Next.js, and Tailwind
  
  CSS (can include Tailwind
  
  SQL skills)
• Solid understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, and scalability principles
• Experience with Dev Ops practices and cloud infrastructure (preferably Google Cloud or AWS), including CI/CD, monitoring, and infrastructure as code
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a self‑driven, ownership mentality
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

• Experience in the travel, marketplace, or e‑commerce space
• Experience scaling systems to millions of daily users
• Contributions to open‑source projects or tech communities
• Experience with Google Cloud or an equivalent cloud services platform

• Competitive salary + equity
• Top‑tier laptop provided
• 100% company‑paid health benefits for base plan coverage, with the option to upgrade to higher‑tier plans
• 401(k) with company match
• Unlimited, guilt‑free vacation days
• Annual wellness stipend (gym + other wellness activities)
• Monthly house‑cleaning stipend
• Annual travel allowance
• Monthly cell phone & internet usage stipend
• Charity donation company match
  
  Employee referral bonus
• Team offsites/activities