Remote Senior Backend Engineer — PHP & Microservices (AWS)

Cloudbeds; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first, Remote always

Home office stipend

Wellness Fridays

Job summary

Cloudbeds, a remote-first hospitality software provider, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer for the Booking Engine squad to design and implement PHP features, build APIs, and evolve data models behind availability, pricing, and reservations to scale the platform.

You will lead discussions, own performance and reliability, mentor teammates, and help migrate to microservices and event-driven architecture while collaborating with cross-functional teams worldwide.

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.
• Strong knowledge of software best practices, design patterns, and testing, including test automation.
• Experience leading discussions and mentoring teammates.

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.
• Lead discussions on complex technical concepts with stakeholders and drive technical decisions.
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented code and contribute to documentation.
• 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 design long-term architectures.
• Advocate engineering best practices and test automation.

Skills

PHP

APIs

Data modeling

Performance optimization

Microservices migration

Code reviews

Mentorship

Agile practices

English fluency

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Cloudbeds, a remote-first hospitality software provider, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer for the Booking Engine squad to design and implement PHP features, build APIs, and evolve data models behind availability, pricing, and reservations to scale the platform.

You will lead discussions, own performance and reliability, mentor teammates, and help migrate to microservices and event-driven architecture while collaborating with cross-functional teams worldwide.