Remote Senior Backend Engineer, AI-First Workflow

Cloudbeds; Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 130,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Home office stipend

Fully paid parental leave

PTO as per local laws

Job summary

Cloudbeds is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Workflow Squad. You will design, build, and operate backend services in PHP and Java, with occasional frontend contributions, owning work from design through production.

Collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Security, and other engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable product solutions, while embracing AI-first development with Claude Code as the starting point.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building, shipping, and operating production applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate customer-facing backend services and product capabilities primarily in PHP and Java, with focused frontend contributions when needed.
• Build reliable APIs, data models, integrations, asynchronous processes, and event-driven services using PostgreSQL, Kafka, REST, and gRPC.
• Own changes end-to-end across application code, service boundaries, infrastructure, and deployment configuration, from technical design through production operation.
• Work AI-first, using Claude Code as the default starting point for implementation, and hold what it produces to the same review, testing, and production bar as code you write by hand.
• Improve scalability, resilience, performance, security, and maintainability across distributed systems that support customer-critical operations.
• Own observability, automated testing, release quality, production support, and incident response as part of the team's on-call rotation.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Security, and other engineering teams to turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic, reliable product solutions.
• Contribute as a senior individual contributor through architecture decisions, code reviews, pair programming, documentation, mentoring, and continuous improvement of engineering practices

Skills

PHP

Java

APIs

PostgreSQL

Kafka

REST

gRPC

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

Code reviews

Claude Code

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

Cloudbeds is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Workflow Squad. You will design, build, and operate backend services in PHP and Java, with occasional frontend contributions, owning work from design through production.

Collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Security, and other engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable product solutions, while embracing AI-first development with Claude Code as the starting point.