About VacationRenter
VacationRenter 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.
VacationRenter was founded in 2018 and by 2020 had already driven over $1 billion in gross bookings, making us not only one of the fastest-growing websites across any industry but also the fastest-growing travel company, ever. Due to this strong growth, VacationRenter was named to SimilarWeb's 100 fast-growing websites of 2020 and 2024.
VacationRenter was born inside Wilbur Labs, a Miami-based startup studio. Founded by ex-Googlers, VacationRenter combines an intuitive user experience with data-driven automation to help travelers find the perfect vacation rental.
About This Role
VacationRenter is looking for a versatile and highly skilled Full Stack Software Engineer to join our engineering organization. As a Full Stack Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the traveler experience from end to end, building intuitive user interfaces while also crafting the backend services that power them. Youll collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver new features, improve performance, and help scale our platform to support millions of users.
In this role, youll work across our modern frontend and backend stack to build high-quality, high-impact features. Youll be responsible for everything from translating design specs into elegant UI components to implementing robust APIs, ensuring seamless integration throughout the ecosystem. Youll have direct influence on technical decisions, architecture, and best practices across the stack, and contribute meaningfully to the direction and culture of our engineering team.
This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in an ownership-driven environment, loves solving complex problems, and enjoys building polished, user-facing experiences backed by scalable, reliable systems.
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 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 TailwindSQL 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 And Perks
- 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
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
