Remote Senior Backend Engineer — PHP & Microservices

Cloudbeds; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first team

Home office stipend

Paid parental leave

PTO aligned with local requirements

Wellness Fridays

Job summary

Cloudbeds is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Booking Engine squad, shaping architectures, features, and best practices to scale the platform with modern SaaS and AWS technologies. You will focus on correctness, latency, and resilience to deliver an exceptional global guest experience.

You will help migrate to microservices, own performance, mentor peers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to build high-quality features that power direct bookings for tens of thousands of

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.
• Good product sense and empathy for our customers.
• Solid Git fundamentals, including workflows and actions.
• Strong knowledge of software best practices, design patterns, and testing, including test automation across unit, integration, and end-to-end levels.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Strong communication, teamwork, and collaboration, with a real sense of ownership and good time management.
• Passionate about agile practices and continuous improvement.
• Business-level English fluency, verbal and written.
• Experience identifying and improving application performance.

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 the ongoing initiative to migrate our core platform into microservices and event-driven services.
• Lead discussions on complex technical concepts and requirements with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, drive technical decisions, and contribute to the backend architecture group.
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented, and elegant code, including documentation for new and existing areas of our application.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan, build, and ship high-quality features.
• Mentor team members through pair programming and code reviews.
• Re-architect and refactor existing systems, and help design the long-term vision for our technology and component architectures.
• Advocate for engineering best practices, quality, and test automation across our code and processes.

Skills

PHP

API design

Relational databases

Git

Testing / test automation

Performance / scale

Agile

Tools

Laravel

Symfony

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Jira/Confluence

GitHub

Job description

Cloudbeds is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Booking Engine squad, shaping architectures, features, and best practices to scale the platform with modern SaaS and AWS technologies. You will focus on correctness, latency, and resilience to deliver an exceptional global guest experience.

You will help migrate to microservices, own performance, mentor peers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to build high-quality features that power direct bookings for tens of thousands of