Senior Backend PHP Software Engineer (Remote)

Cloudbeds; Paris; À distance; EUR 65 000 - 85 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Join a leading hospitality software provider as a Senior Backend Engineer in Paris. Work with a fully remote team to shape core architecture and develop high-impact solutions in hotel management. Ideal candidates will possess extensive experience with PHP and modern development practices in a collaborative environment.

Prestations

PTO in accordance with local labor requirements

Full Paid Parental Leave

Home office stipend

Professional development courses

Access to professional therapy and coaching

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Experience with PHP and modern frameworks (Laravel, Symfony).
• Expert knowledge of MySQL.

Responsabilités

• Implement new architectures and best practices to scale the Cloudbeds platform.
• Write clean, well-tested code and contribute to a modern microservices architecture.
• Collaborate with teams to design and deliver scalable high-quality features.

Connaissances

Backend Development

PHP

Microservices

AWS

Description du poste

Europe; Latin America; North America

What Makes Us Unique

At Cloudbeds, we're not just building software, we’re transforming hospitality. Our intelligently designed platform powers properties across 150 countries, processing billions in bookings annually. From independent properties to hotel groups, we help hoteliers transform operations and uplevel their commercial strategy through a unified platform that integrates with hundreds of partners. And we do it with a completely remote team. Imagine working alongside global innovators to build AI-powered solutions that solve hoteliers' biggest challenges. Since our founding in 2012, we've become the World's Best Hotel PMS Solutions Provider and landed on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 again in 2024 – but we're just getting started.

How You'll Make an Impact:

As a Senior Backend Engineer , you will implement new architectures, features, and best practices to scale the Cloudbeds platform. You will contribute to new efforts in service-oriented architectures, leveraging the latest, cutting edge technologies.

As a Senior Backend Engineer , your goal is to deliver an exceptional experience to our customers all around the world with quality, performance, and scalability top of mind. Alongside your team, you will leverage latest, modern SaaS and Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies across all layers of the software stack.

Inventory Team:

As the backbone of Cloudbeds' Central Reservations tribe, the Inventory team owns the logic behind hotel rates and availability—core systems that power everything from group bookings to rate plans to occupancy insights. We thrive on solving foundational, high-impact challenges at scale, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and thoughtful design. If you're energized by building mission-critical services in a collaborative, high-trust environment, you'll find your people here.

What You Bring to the Team:

• As a member of the Inventory Team, you will play a key role in evolving Cloudbeds’ core architecture for hotel rates and availability
• Help shape and lead technical discussions around complex systems and domain logic, working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders as a contributor to the backend architecture group
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented, and maintainable code
• Contribute to the ongoing migration of our core platform toward a modern, microservices-based architecture
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and deliver scalable, high-quality features
• Champion engineering excellence by promoting best practices in code quality, architecture, and team processes

What Sets You Up for Success:

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience using object-oriented principles in PHP
• 2+ years of experience with one or more modern frameworks or ecosystems (e.g., Laravel, Symfony, or similar)
• A strong business sense and ability to collaborate with leadership and non-technical stakeholders on highly visible projects
• Expert knowledge of relational, indexing, and searching technologies, especially MySQL
• A passion for data-informed development, including metrics, experimentation, and rapid prototyping
• Strong knowledge and passion for software architecture, design patterns, and testing practices
• Experience working with complex data structures and/or inventory cache system is a strong plus
• Business-level English fluency required (verbal and written)

Bonus Skills to Stand Out (Optional):

• Experience designing and building microservices using PHP
• Experience with gRPC and protobuf
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)
• Experience working with a remote-first and globally distributed team

What to Expect - Your Journey with Us

Behind Cloudbeds' revolutionary technology is a team of redefining what's possible in hospitality. We're 650+ employees across 40+ countries, bringing together elite engineers, AI architects, world-class designers, and hospitality veterans to solve challenges others haven't dared to tackle. Our diverse team speaks 30+ languages, but we all share one language: a passion for innovation and travel. From pioneering breakthroughs in machine learning to revolutionizing how hotels operate, we're not just watching the future of hospitality unfold – we're coding it, designing it, writing it and shipping it. If you're ready to work alongside some of the brightest minds in tech who are obsessed with using AI to transform a trillion-dollar industry, this is your chance to be part of something extraordinary.

• Overall 10 Best Places to Work | HotelTechAwards (2025)
• Top 10 People’s Choice(2024)
• Remote First, Remote Always
• PTO in accordance with local labor requirements
• Full Paid Parental Leave
• Home office stipend based on country of residency
• Professional development courses in Cloudbeds University
• Access provided to professional Therapy and Coaching
• 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 that celebrates the diversity in our global team! We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Cloudbeds is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Cloudbeds will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations in the hiring process. We encourage deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, and deaf-disabled individuals to apply. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process or to perform essential job functions, please contact our HR team by phone at 858-201-7832 or via email at [e-mail] . Cloudbeds will provide an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter where needed as a reasonable accommodation for the hiring processes.

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