Senior Backend Engineer for High-Traffic Hospitality SaaS

Covermanager; Sevilla; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model (Barcelona/Seville)

Dedicated onboarding bootcamp

Impactful product for thousands of F&B

AI-assisted development & code reviews

International environment with Zenchef

Growth opportunities

Job summary

CoverManager, part of Hospitality Tech Group, is hiring a Senior Backend Developer to join its Product & Tech team. You will develop and evolve a PHP-based SaaS platform used by restaurants to manage reservations, customer relationships and operations.

You will work on high-traffic systems, collaborate with product managers and engineers, and help evolve the architecture to be modular while maintaining reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of professional experience as a backend developer.
• Strong experience with PHP.
• Experience with Laravel or CodeIgniter.
• Experience with frontend frameworks and contributing to frontend development.
• Solid experience with SQL databases (MySQL or similar).
• Experience working in complex or high-traffic systems.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests.
• Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum / Kanban).
• Advanced English (C1 or higher) with strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver features in the reservation and restaurant management systems end-to-end, with quality and tests.
• Keep the platform fast, stable and scalable under high traffic and concurrency.
• Help evolve the architecture towards a more modular platform and reduce technical debt.
• Design, develop and maintain backend services and core platform components.
• Implement new features and improvements in the reservation and restaurant management systems.
• Ensure performance, reliability and scalability of backend systems.
• Contribute to architectural improvements and system evolution.
• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions.

Skills

Backend development

PHP

Unit & integration tests

Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

English (C1)

Tools

Laravel

CodeIgniter

Docker

AWS

Job description

CoverManager, part of Hospitality Tech Group, is hiring a Senior Backend Developer to join its Product & Tech team. You will develop and evolve a PHP-based SaaS platform used by restaurants to manage reservations, customer relationships and operations.

You will work on high-traffic systems, collaborate with product managers and engineers, and help evolve the architecture to be modular while maintaining reliability and performance.