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The Flex

Flexible home rental management platform

Senior Software Engineer

AI Application Engineering +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • Strong experience building and owning production-grade software systems.
  • Experience with FastAPI, Python, React, or similar frameworks.
  • Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, and cloud architecture.
  • Experience designing scalable backend systems and reliable data models.
  • The ability to work independently and make sound technical decisions.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and a product mindset.
  • Curiosity about AI, automation, and operational efficiency.
  • A bias toward action, shipping, and learning from real users.
  • The ability to balance delivery speed with maintainability and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable applications, services, and APIs that power reservations, availability, pricing, payments, guest experiences, and property operations.
  • Build event-driven workflows that eliminate repetitive work, including scheduling cleaning after a booking, sending check-in instructions, and generating owner statements.
  • Use large language models and AI agents to automate guest communication, triage maintenance requests, support pricing decisions, and help operators manage their portfolios.
  • Create robust APIs that connect internal services, booking channels, third-party providers, and customer systems.
  • Build and maintain integrations with Airbnb, Hostaway, Stripe, Twilio, OpenAI, Google, and other strategic partners across the short-term rental ecosystem.
  • Deploy and manage cloud-native infrastructure designed for reliability, performance, and global growth across multiple property management businesses.
  • Build solutions for real-time reservation and availability synchronization, dynamic pricing intelligence, smart lock access and key management, automated guest communication across channels, operational forecasting, cleaning and maintenance automation, owner reporting and financial workflows, and AI-powered monitoring and alerts.
  • Own projects end-to-end, from understanding an operator’s problem to architecture, implementation, deployment, and ongoing improvement.
  • Bring senior engineering judgment to technical decisions, code reviews, and the reliability of the systems you build.
  • Automate core short-term rental workflows through systems you build.
  • Ensure reservations, availability, payments, and operational data move reliably between systems.
  • Deploy and maintain new integrations reliably.
  • Develop AI-powered workflows for customers’ everyday operations.
  • Scale the platform to support more operators and properties while maintaining reliability and performance.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with short-term rentals, hospitality technology, or property management systems.
  • Experience with multi-tenant software-as-a-service platforms.
  • Experience with marketplace businesses and booking channel integrations.
  • Experience with AI agents and workflow automation.
  • Experience with event-driven architectures.
  • Experience with Supabase.
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services serverless infrastructure.

About the Company

The Flex

Flexible home rental management platform

The Flex helps renters live and work anywhere by offering flexible, Amazon-style home rentals with easy cancellation options. It operates as an online rental platform that matches landlords seeking to reduce high property-management fees with renters who want flexibility in their housing arrangements. Listings on The Flex feature flexible cancellation terms and straightforward booking, enabling people to secure accommodations quickly wherever they are. The company differentiates itself by prioritizing cancel-anytime flexibility, predictable costs for landlords, and a broad global selection, rather than locking tenants into long-term leases or complicated processes. The goal is to simplify renting so people can move freely while keeping costs and hassles low for landlords.

Company size
11-50
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2019

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