Flexible short-term rental platform with event-driven booking and payment automation
The Flex operates a rental platform built on Node.js, React, and AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, SQS), with deep integrations into Stripe, Hostaway, and Twilio. The stack shape—event-driven services, automation workflows, and API-first architecture—reflects a company focused on eliminating manual operations across bookings, payments, and guest communication. Hiring is engineering-heavy (381 of 494 roles) and skewed toward senior/lead levels, indicating active platform development rather than early-stage scaling.
The Flex rents furnished apartments in strategic locations across Europe and emerging markets, targeting users who prioritize flexibility and landlords seeking to avoid high management fees. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in London, the company operates a two-sided marketplace with active hiring across 25+ countries. The product layer spans booking, payment processing, availability synchronization, and guest experience workflows. Recent development focuses on event-driven automation to reduce friction in guest and operator journeys, with ongoing work to improve booking conversion and scale acquisition across new cities.
Node.js, React, Python, FastAPI, AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, SQS), Stripe, Hostaway, Twilio, HubSpot, Salesforce, Google Analytics 4, and Webflow.
The Flex has open roles across 25 countries including the UK, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Poland, Romania, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, and more. Engineering roles dominate the hiring mix (381 of 494 active positions).
Building event-driven automation services, deep integrations with Airbnb/Stripe/Hostaway/Twilio, booking and payment architectures, intelligent workflows to remove manual operations, and acquisition funnel experiments.
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