Backend PHP Software Engineer - Inventory

LaraBench; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote First

Paid parental leave

Home office stipend

Job summary

Cloudbeds is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to deliver scalable, high-quality services worldwide. You will shape core architecture for hotel rates and availability within a remote-first, globally distributed team.

You will drive design, write robust code, and modernize legacy systems while collaborating with leadership and cross-functional partners. Strong PHP/Java skills and MySQL expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience using object-oriented principles in PHP or Java.
• 2+ years of experience with Laravel, Symfony, or similar frameworks.
• Strong business sense and ability to collaborate with leadership on visible projects.
• Expert knowledge of relational databases, indexing, and searching technologies (MySQL).
• Passion for data-informed development, metrics, experimentation, and rapid prototyping.
• Solid knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, and testing practices.
• Experience with complex data structures and inventory cache systems is a plus.
• Business-level English fluency (verbal and written).

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discussions around complex systems and domain logic with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented, maintainable code.
• Contribute to migrating core platform toward a modern microservices architecture.
• Maintain legacy monoliths as part of modernization efforts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and deliver scalable features.
• Promote engineering excellence through best practices in code quality and architecture.
• Proactively identify opportunities for improvement and take initiative.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to boost productivity and code quality.

Skills

Backend fundamentals

5+ years experience

PHP/Java

Object-oriented design

MySQL

Data-informed development

Software architecture

Testing practices

Business stakeholder collaboration

Team leadership & initiative

Tools

Laravel

Symfony

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

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
• Work on and maintain legacy monolith code as part of our modernization journey
• 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
• Be a self-started who can take initiative, work independently, and proactively identify opportunities for improvement
• Use AI-assisted development tools as part of your daily workflow to increase productivity, accelerate problem-solving, and enhance code quality,

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.

Learn more online at cloudbeds.com

Company Awards to Check Out!

• Best All-In-One Hotel Management System | HotelTechAwards (2025)
• Overall 10 Best Places to Work | HotelTechAwards (2025)
• Most Loved Workplace® Certified (2024)
• Top 10 People's Choice(2024)
• Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (2024)

Discover our Benefits:

• Remote First, Remote Always
• PTO in accordance with local labor requirements
• 2 corporate apartment accommodations for team member use for free (San Diego & São Paulo)
• 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.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience using object-oriented principles in PHP or Java
• 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 :

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

About the company

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.