Job description
Founding Engineer
Company Overview
At The Flex, we believe renting a home should be as easy as buying an item from Amazon, that means ensuring our guests have an abundance of choice and flexibility to cancel if their plans change. We aim to help landlords stop paying excessive management fees and help renters live and work comfortably anywhere in the world.
Job Summary
Join the team redefining the future of global living — from the ground up. At The Flex, we believe renting a home should feel instant, intelligent, and effortless — as seamless as booking a ride. Our ambition is bold: enabling anyone to live anywhere, anytime, without friction. This is a chance to build a company’s technical foundation and define how a global platform operates at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Build from Zero to One: Design and implement the initial architecture powering bookings, payments, availability, and guest experience.
- Own the Stack: Build across frontend, backend, APIs, and cloud infrastructure — choosing tools and patterns that scale.
- Automate the Business: Replace manual processes with event-driven workflows and intelligent automation from day one.
- Integrate the Ecosystem: Build deep integrations with platforms such as Airbnb, Stripe, Hostaway, and Twilio.
- Ship Relentlessly: Deploy, monitor, and iterate on production systems with speed, reliability, and pragmatism.
- Solve Real-World Problems: Tackle real-time booking sync, pricing intelligence, keyless access logic, AI-powered alerts, and operational dashboards.
- Set the Technical DNA: Establish engineering standards, best practices, and a culture of quality, ownership, and execution.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Strong experience building production systems (full-stack or backend-heavy)
- Comfort working across web apps, APIs, and cloud infrastructure
- Experience with FastAPI, React, and AWS (or equivalent stacks)
- A bias toward shipping over perfection
- High tolerance for ambiguity and changing requirements
- An ownership mindset — you treat the product like it’s yours
Location
Germany (Remote)
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Foundational Impact: Your work will define how the company operates for years to come.
- Extreme Ownership: You won’t just influence decisions — you’ll make them.
- Fast Feedback Loop: What you build goes live, gets used, and evolves quickly.
- Meaningful Upside: Competitive compensation with strong upside aligned to long-term success.
- Remote-First: Work from anywhere — autonomy and trust are core to how we operate.
