Senior Product Engineer
Senior Product Engineer
Scotland - can be remote but must be based in Scotland
About Travelnes
tThe fate of every independent holiday rental owner is determined by their online presence. Travellers now make all of their buying decisions online. That’s a major problem for holiday rental owners. To compete, owners need exceptional digital marketing, outstanding reviews, competitive pricing, and broad distributio n across every relevant travel site global, regional, or niche. Most are falling dangerously behind. Compare the digital presence of an independent owner to a global hotel chain like Marriott or Hilton the gap is staggering
.Shopify solved this for e-commerce .Travelnest is solving it for holiday rental owners
.
Why you should join
us
T he Product Engineering team at Traveln est is on a mission to level the playing field for holiday rental own ers. We’re relentlessly focused on delivering best-in-class financial outcomes for every host who partners with
us.
We’re a team of curious, driven general ists who run toward the hardest, most meaningful prob lems. One week, we’re designing smarter pricing algorithms. The next, we’re building tools that help owners optimise their photos and better understand their reach. The week after, we might be rethinking how we synchronise tens of thousands of listings across platforms—fast, reliably, and at sc
ale.
We’re a small, close-knit team that punches well above its weight. We care deeply about building exceptional products. You'll be joining at a pivotal moment in our journey—with huge ownership, fast learning, and meaningful product decisions from day
one.
What you’ll be
- doingEnd-to-end own e rship — from idea to launch. You lead the charge, collaborate closely, and ship fast. You don’t just influence the direction, you build and drive towar
- ds it.Working full stack. We focus on high—leverage work where it matters most. That means a lot of learning on-t
- he-go.Obsessing over the cus tomer. You’ll work directly with hosts, our Property Experts, and designers to deeply understand the product this industry needs
- most.Improving how we work. We have a ton of legacy systems to refactor and simplify. A mixtu re of grea t and not so great CI/CD and, a patchwork of patterns from years of experiment
ation.
What successful looks like at Tra
- velnest
Founder-level o wnership. You treat the business like it’s your own. You proactively find opportunities, fix what’s broken and mo - ve fast.Thrive in the face of unc ertainty. You bring clarity where there is none, make the best calls you can with incomplete data and stay calm when the ground shifts. Ambiguity energi
- ses you.Accelerate the people aro und you. You spot blockers, share early and raise the bar without ego. You turn potential into progres
- s, fast.Outcomes not tickets. Hosts care about revenue - not the state of the engineering backlog. We do what it takes to move the
- needle.You speak business a nd code. You understand the commercial drivers behind what we build; and have a natural curiosity for travel which stretches far beyond
the techO
ur stackWe activ
- ely use:Ty pescri pt with Postgres as our cor
- e stack.Reac t Nati ve w ith Expo for our Mob
- ile A pp.Rea ct wit h Vercel for our
- Web App.AWS for hosting our infrast
- ructure.T erraform for infrast
- ructure.GitHub Actions for testing and dep
- loymen t.Sen try and Grafana for observ
- abilit y.OpenAI for LLM integ
rations.
We also w
- ork wi th:Py thon and Flask which underpin most of our legac
- y estate.We actively maintain services following a number of legacy