Senior Software Engineer

At Blueground, our vision is to make people feel at home wherever they choose to live. For us, that means ensuring our guests have the peace of mind, flexibility & confidence they need to explore life’s latest adventure.

We’ve grown a lot since our founding in 2013, having raised more than $300m+ in funding, to date -- and that’s just the beginning. We’re now hosting guests in more than 18,000 homes in 45+ cities around the world (and growing!), with an aim to hit 100,000+ homes in 100 cities by 2027.

Our vision comes to life through our ways of working. For our 1,000 member team located across 17 countries, we’ve created a culture of collaboration, inclusiveness, and opportunity.

• Putting Guests First drives every decision we make, inspiring us to create truly exceptional experiences.
• Speed keeps us agile and forward-thinking, always innovating to stay ahead.
• Keeping it Honest builds trust through transparency and open communication at every level.
• Embracing Change empowers us to adapt swiftly and thrive in the face of new challenges.
• Diving In reflects our ownership mindset, ensuring excellence, dedication, and impactful results in all we do.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Property Management System (PMS) team.

We’re building a next-generation PMS that goes far beyond traditional property management. It’s designed to support a wide range of business models—from short-term to long-term stays, from managing owned properties to operating a marketplace, and running a franchising model. Today, it powers over 40,000 properties worldwide—and we’re scaling fast: 100,000 by the end of 2025, and 1 million by the end of 2027.

On the tech side, we’re all-in on a modern, microservices-based architecture. You’ll work with a dynamic stack that includes Kotlin on Kubernetes, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, GraphQL, and REST, among others.

We’re shaping the future of living. If you're excited about scale, complexity, and building high-impact systems—we want you on this journey.

Our Stack:

• Kotlin
• Postgres | MongoDB | Redis
• Apache Kafka | RabbitMQ
• Rest | GraphQL
• AWS | Kubernetes | Serverless | ArgoCD | Argo Workflows 

On the web front, we use React and Tailwind on a micro-frontend architecture. Our code sits on Github, is built, tested, and packaged via Github Actions, and runs on Kubernetes. We do project management on JIRA, our prototypes, and mockups on Figma and monitor our systems and performance very diligently on Datadog.

Note: While the PMS is on a Kotlin/React stack, as a company, we’re polyglot. So, we extensively use Typescript/Node.js and Python while the Platform team is heavy on Rust.

What you'll do

• Architect, design, and build a PMS system
• Focus on velocity and developer experience (DX)
• Code services and APIs
• Automate stuff. Like a lot.
• Be religious with Git
• Depend on a CI pipeline
• Experiment, learn, and have fun

 What to expect

• To work with agile, cross-functional, DevOps-enabled teams
• To deep dive into other business functions
• To get your head around a quite big problem domain
• To enjoy some quality engineering on a multitude of technologies
• A rapidly growing company
• Cool and helpful colleagues :)

Interview process

• Dialogue with Talent Acquisition Team (30m)
• Live coding interview (1.5h)
• Technical Dialogue (1.5h)
• System Design & Executive Dialogue (1h)

What we are looking for

• 3+ years of industry experience in software development
• Professional experience with at least 2 different modern programming languages/paradigms
• A strong CS background
• A hands-on attitude
• Strong skills in one of Kotlin, Java
• Strong background in databases and data engineering
• Excellent communication in English
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or a related subject
• Bonus: a full-stack approach

Your benefits

• Competitive salary
• Blueground Stock Option Plan
• Flexible paid time off
• Group Health Insurance program
• Enhanced parental leave
• Dynamic working environment with talented people
• Flexible work environment through our Blueground Nomads employee mobility program
• Complimentary accommodation in Blueground locations. Think summer in LA and winter in Dubai!

At Blueground we are proud to have Diversity and Inclusion at the centre of everything we do. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity regardless of race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.

For more information on Blueground, visit us at www.theblueground.com. To keep up with Blueground news, follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and Tik Tok!