Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Booking Engine squad, you'll play a crucial role in scaling the Cloudbeds platform. Our platform processes billions in bookings annually, powering direct bookings for tens of thousands of properties worldwide. You'll work on systems where correctness, latency, and resilience under load are core priorities, ensuring an exceptional customer experience.

How You'll Make an Impact

You'll implement new architectures, features, and best practices to enhance the Cloudbeds platform. Your work will contribute to our migration towards a service-oriented architecture using modern SaaS and AWS technologies across the stack. The Booking Engine Team is responsible for the guest-facing reservation experience, which is critical for capturing direct bookings and enhancing the overall guest experience.

What You Bring to the Team

• Design and implement features and improvements in PHP
• Design and build the APIs and integrations the booking flow depends on
• Model and evolve the data behind availability, pricing, and reservations
• Own the performance, scalability, and reliability of our services at scale
• Contribute to the ongoing initiative to migrate our core platform into microservices and event-driven services
• Lead discussions on complex technical concepts and requirements with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, drive technical decisions, and contribute to the backend architecture group
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented, and elegant code, including documentation for new and existing areas of our application
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan, build, and ship high-quality features
• Mentor team members through pair programming and code reviews
• Re-architect and refactor existing systems, and help design the long-term vision for our technology and component architectures
• Advocate for engineering best practices, quality, and test automation across our code and processes

What Sets You Up for Success

• 5+ years of PHP web application software engineering experience
• Expert knowledge of relational databases, indexing, and searching technologies
• Experience with API-driven design and development
• Good product sense and empathy for our customers
• Solid Git fundamentals, including workflows and actions
• Strong knowledge of and a passion for software best practices, design patterns, and testing, including test automation across unit, integration, and end-to-end levels
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Strong communication, teamwork, and collaboration, with a real sense of ownership and good time management
• Passionate about agile practices and continuous improvement
• Bonus Skills to Stand Out:
• Experience with PHP frameworks (Laravel or Symfony)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)
• Experience designing and building microservices
• Experience working with AI coding tools like Claude Code
• Experience working with a remote-first, globally distributed team
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and GitHub

What to Expect - Your Journey with Us

Join a team of 650+ elite engineers, AI architects, world-class designers, and hospitality veterans who are passionate about using AI to transform the hospitality industry. We offer remote-first, remote always benefits, including remote work stipends, full paid parental leave, professional development courses, and more. Cloudbeds is committed to fostering an inclusive culture and providing equal opportunities for all qualified individuals.