Remote Senior Backend Engineer — Booking Engine (PHP/AWS)

Cloudbeds; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Paid parental leave

Remote‑first culture

Job summary

Cloudbeds is a remote-first hospitality software company seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Booking Engine squad. You will design and implement features, APIs, and data models shaping availability, pricing, and reservations at scale.

You’ll drive performance, reliability, and migration toward microservices and event-driven architectures using PHP, AWS, and modern SaaS patterns. Collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality, scalable backend services powering thousands of properties

Qualifications

• 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.
• Business-level English fluency, verbal and written.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features and improvements in PHP.
• Design and build the APIs and integrations the booking flow depends on.
• Model and evolve the data behind availability, pricing, and reservations.
• Own the performance, scalability, and reliability of our services at scale.
• Contribute to migrating core platform into microservices and event-driven services.
• Lead discussions on complex technical concepts with stakeholders and drive decisions.
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented code and update documentation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan, build, and ship high-quality features.
• Mentor teammates through pair programming and code reviews.
• Re-architect and refactor existing systems and help design long-term architecture vision.
• Advocate for engineering best practices, quality, and test automation across code and processes.

Skills

PHP web development

Relational databases

API design

Git workflows

Testing & QA

Performance optimization

Team collaboration

Agile practices

English communication

Cloud fundamentals

Tools

Laravel

Symfony

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Cloudbeds is a remote-first hospitality software company seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Booking Engine squad. You will design and implement features, APIs, and data models shaping availability, pricing, and reservations at scale.

You’ll drive performance, reliability, and migration toward microservices and event-driven architectures using PHP, AWS, and modern SaaS patterns. Collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality, scalable backend services powering thousands of properties