Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Booking Engine squad, you'll play a pivotal role in scaling the Cloudbeds platform. Our platform supports properties across 150 countries, processing billions in bookings annually. You'll work on systems critical to the guest-facing reservation experience, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and reliable services.

Responsibilities

• Implement new architectures, features, and best practices to scale the Cloudbeds platform
• Design and build APIs and integrations critical to the booking flow
• 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 migration of 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

Requirements

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

Business-level English fluency, verbal and written

Experience identifying and improving application performance

Qualifications

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

Travel industry experience (a plus, but definitely not required!)

Benefits

Remote First, Remote Always

PTO in accordance with local labor requirements

Monthly Wellness Fridays - enjoy an extra long weekend every month

Full Paid Parental Leave

Home office stipend based on country of residency

Professional development courses in Cloudbeds University

Access to professional development, including manager training, upskilling and knowledge transfer

Everyone is Welcome - A Culture of Inclusion

Cloudbeds is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer