Full Stack Engineer

About VacationRenter VacationRenter is the fastest growing vacation rental search engine. We love traveling, 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 sites and scroll through pages of irrelevant results just to find the perfect home away from home. We aggregate accommodations from the top travel sites, giving travelers all the best options in one place. VacationRenter was born inside the startup studio Wilbur Labs. VacationRenter uses automation and AI to help travelers find the perfect stay. Be sure to check out our rebranded site, Vogo.com. Vogo is the same company travelers have come to love but under a new name. About This Role VacationRenter is seeking a versatile and highly skilled Full Stack Engineer to join our engineering organization. In this role, the engineer will shape the traveler experience end-to-end, building intuitive user interfaces while also crafting the backend services that power them. The role spans our modern frontend and backend stack to deliver high-quality, high-impact features, from translating design specs into elegant UI components to implementing robust APIs that ensure seamless integration. You’ll have direct influence on technical decisions, architecture, and best practices, while contributing to the direction and culture of the engineering team. The ideal candidate thrives in an ownership-driven environment, enjoys solving complex problems, and takes pride in building polished, user-facing experiences backed by scalable, reliable systems. The engineer will collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver new features, improve performance, and help scale the platform to support millions of users. This role will report directly to the Head of Engineering. This is a full-time hybrid position, based in Dallas. Role & Responsibilities:

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 TypeScript, ensuring high performance, accessibility, and a great user experience

Develop and optimize backend services using Node.js, integrating with PostgreSQL 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

Minimum Qualifications:

3+ years of backend software engineering experience

Experience with Node.js and PostgreSQL (or equivalent relational databases)

Experience with React, Next.js, and Tailwind

SQL skills - able to write, debug, and optimize queries

Solid understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, and scalability principles

Experience with DevOps 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

Preferred Qualifications & Prior Experience:

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

Benefits & Perks:

Competitive salary + equity

Top-tier laptop provided100% 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