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# Full-Stack Engineer at Kindred

- **Company:** Kindred
- **Location:** US OR, Canada
- **Compensation:** $150k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kindred/6070b239-54da-4e17-8f46-880a70629586

## Job description

Kindred is a members-only home swapping platform that unlocks the ability to live a travel-rich lifestyle through the power of community. By exchanging primary residences with trusted peers, renters and owners alike can match with Kindred spirits and explore new destinations without breaking the bank. Kindred is revolutionizing the “third option” of travel accommodation, compared to short-term rentals and hotels. Since launching in 2022, Kindred has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities and puts home swapping on the map as a radically more affordable, responsible, and connected way to travel. To support that momentum, Kindred has raised over $150M in capital from some of the most credible investors in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and founders of companies like Opendoor, Figma, ClassPass, and more. Kindred’s co-founders are proven leaders from the early team at Opendoor ($15B+ exit), who have each built and scaled products that today generate $1B+ annual revenue combined. We’re looking for the world’s top builders, executors, and believers to help us make travel more meaningful. You can learn more about us in [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescawalton/2026/02/03/home-swap-startup-kindred-raises-125-million-in-fresh-funding-as-travelers-seek-creative-ways-to-save-money/) and [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/realestate/is-your-apartment-nice-enough-for-this-home-swapping-app.html).

The Role: We're looking for a full-stack Software Engineer who leads with UI/UX craft — someone who can build polished, dynamic consumer experiences in React and React Native, with the backend depth to take a feature from idea to production without a handoff. You'll own features end-to-end: shaping the interaction, building the interface, writing the APIs and data models behind it, then shipping, measuring, and iterating. Strong product and design instincts matter here — you should care how something feels, not just whether it works. You'll work across web and mobile to keep those experiences cohesive, and help build a consumer product that will shape the future of travel.

What You'll Do:

- Build features that feel effortless to users and are easy for other engineers to extend
- Balance business priorities, user experience, and a durable technical foundation when the three pull in different directions
- Track down production issues wherever they live, from the UI to the backend
- Keep raising the bar on quality and speed as our web and mobile surfaces grow

You may be a right fit for this role if you:

- Have 3+ years building consumer-facing applications, with real depth in React and React Native and enough backend experience to build a feature all the way down
- Are fluent in TypeScript across the stack — we build on Next.js, React Native/Expo, and Node + GraphQL over Postgres, and value people who pick up new tools quickly over people who've used exactly ours
- Have a sharp eye for UI detail and a deep understanding of consumer UX across web and mobile, with a track record of building interfaces that stay fast and reusable at scale
- Have the product and design judgment to work from a rough direction — you make the dozens of small calls a spec never covers, and know which few are worth escalating
- Have strong ownership instincts — you see the thing through to shipped and working, and pick up the unglamorous parts nobody assigned
- Communicate and listen well, and work easily cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
- Are motivated by consumer products that shape how people behave

Our Benefits: At Kindred, we know that good things happen when we look out for one another. We offer a thoughtful, human-first benefits package designed to support health, wellbeing, and connection. Our openings may span more than one career level. The base salary offered depends on factors such as experience, transferable skills, business needs, impact, and market data.

- Competitive cash compensation and equity
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year
- 21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes
- $4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs
- Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco
- Regular team and company offsites to connect, collaborate, and build together
- A vibrant, inclusive, and highly skilled team that ferociously protects team chemistry
- A culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. Kindred does not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, marital status, domestic partner status, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by US federal, state or local laws, or the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you work.

## About Kindred

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kindred is a members-only home swapping network that makes travel radically accessible through trust, connection, and community.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Justine Palefsky (Co-Founder & CEO), Tasneem Amina (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
- Target customers: B2C – travelers seeking affordable, community-driven accommodation; members-only model with invite or waitlist
- Mission or purpose statement: Make travel radically accessible through a trusted home exchange network.

## Products & Services
- **[Home Swapping Platform]**: A members-only network where users exchange homes, paying a fraction of traditional accommodation costs. Members earn and spend travel credits, with safety and trust built through community guidelines and a dedicated Trust & Safety team.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $147.75M (across 4 rounds)
- **Annual Revenue**: $2.4M (estimated, as of mid-2026)
- **Funding History**:
  - Seed Round (April 2022): $7.8M – 16 investors
  - Series A (April 2023): $15M – led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
  - Series B (January 2025): $40M – led by NEA and Dylan Field
  - Series C (February 2026): $85M – led by Index Ventures
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Dylan Field (Figma CEO)
- **Growth Signals**: 112 employees (+39.1% YoY); operates in 12 countries (US, UK, Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, etc.); acquired home-swap platform Mango in February 2023; active job postings up 66.7% year-over-year.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Trusted Community**: Members-only model with vetting, reviews, and a dedicated Trust & Safety team reduces friction and risk compared to open marketplaces.
- **Network Effects**: As the member base grows, inventory and travel options increase, creating a defensible moat.
- **Strong Brand & Culture**: “Be Like Bob” ethos and community-first mindset drive high-quality hosting and member loyalty.
- **Product-Lived Culture**: Employees use the platform themselves, building deep empathy and product insight.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth & Scale**: Expanding geographic footprint (12 countries and counting) and member base through referral and waitlist.
- **Product Innovation**: Enhancing the swapping experience with data science, pricing, and trust features.
- **Community Building**: Strengthening member engagement and retention through travel credits, events, and hospitality standards.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture Highlights**: High ownership, close founder visibility, travel‑lived work norms, and a “championship” culture that rewards generosity and impact.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Flexible remote work within the US; employees work from physical offices in San Francisco (HQ) and other locations, but many roles are remote-friendly. Typical on-site expectation is “None” according to Built In.
- **Notable Perks**:
  - Unlimited stays in Kindred homes (free accommodation)
  - $4,000 annual travel stipend ($1,000/quarter) for airfare or gas
  - $10,000 family-forming support (fertility care, IVF, egg freezing)
  - Unlimited/ flexible PTO
  - Equity grants
  - Global coworking access and regular offsites
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong data science and product teams; emphasis on building trust and safety systems; opportunity to shape a fast-growing marketplace.

## Sources
1. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kindred)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/live-kindred)
3. [builtinsf.com](https://www.builtinsf.com/company/kindred-livekindredcom)
4. [builtin.com - Compensation & Benefits](https://builtin.com/company/kindred-livekindredcom/faq/compensation-benefits)
5. [builtin.com - Culture & Values](https://builtin.com/company/kindred-livekindredcom/faq/culture-values)

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