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Senior Software Engineer, Python/React, AI-assisted development

Houst

About Houst

Houst manages thousands of short-let homes in 20+ cities, from London and Lisbon to Auckland. Behind the scenes our platform does the heavy lifting: listing automation, 24/7 guest messaging, dynamic pricing, cleaning and maintenance scheduling, payouts, and integrations with Airbnb, Booking.com and dozens of other partners.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build and ship backend services and APIs (Python 3, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis) and the React / React Native frontends they power
  • Lead by example on AI-assisted development: agentic coding tools, prompt and context engineering, automated review, test generation, and the evaluation that proves they help
  • Set and uphold the engineering bar: CI, peer review, automated testing, observability, safe releases on AWS
  • Integrate with third-party platforms (Airbnb, booking channels, payments, messaging) and keep those integrations reliable
  • Pair with product and ops to turn messy real-world hosting problems into shipped software
  • Mentor through review and example; help the wider team adopt what works

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional software development, with deep hands-on Python and solid React; you are highly technical and still code every day
  • Daily, serious use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar) in real production work, and clear opinions on where they help and where they hurt
  • Strong API design, relational database and CI/CD experience (PostgreSQL, Docker, GitHub Actions or CircleCI, AWS)
  • A track record of shipping and operating production systems: you have been paged, you have fixed it, you have made sure it does not happen again
  • Fluent written and spoken English; you will work with a team in London and Kraków
  • Based in Georgia and able to work as an independent contractor

Preferred

  • Experience building agentic workflows or LLM features into a product (tool use, evals, prompt caching, cost control)
  • React Native, Elastic Stack, or proptech / travel / marketplace background

Pay

  • **Monthly rate:** USD 4,500–6,000/month contractor fee excl. VAT (≈ GEL 11,700–15,600)
  • **Salary:** USD 54,000–72,000

Benefits

USD 4,500–6,000/month contractor fee (≈ GEL 11,700–15,600)

  • Fully remote from anywhere in Georgia (Tbilisi, Batumi, Kutaisi or elsewhere), with overlap to UK working hours
  • Latest AI tooling paid for and expected to be used
  • A direct line to the CTO and real influence over how a fast-growing proptech is built
  • An international, collaborative team that values quality, speed and curiosity

The role

  • This is a hands-on individual-contributor role with no direct reports.
  • Python backend work comes first, React second.
  • You will own features end to end, working directly with product, operations and growth.
  • You will be expected to use AI tooling heavily and well: planning with it, generating and reviewing code with it, and knowing exactly when not to trust it.

Role details

  • **Location:** Fully remote from anywhere in Georgia
  • **Team:** Engineering (London + Kraków, GMT/CET hours)
  • **Workplace:** remote
  • **Department:** Technology