Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Booking Engine (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote‑first culture

Home office stipend based on residency

Professional development (Cloudbeds U)

Job summary

Cloudbeds is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Booking Engine squad. You will implement scalable architectures, build APIs and integrations, and evolve data models for availability, pricing, and reservations across a global platform.

You will own performance and reliability at scale, contribute to migrating to microservices, and lead technical discussions with stakeholders while mentoring teammates. Remote-first collaboration enables a distributed, high‑impact team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of PHP web application software engineering experience.
• Relational databases, indexing, and searching technologies.
• API‑driven design and development.
• Good product sense and customer empathy.
• Solid Git fundamentals, workflows and actions.
• Strong knowledge of software best practices, design patterns, and testing including test automation.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Strong communication, teamwork, and collaboration with ownership and 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 services at scale.
• Contribute to migrating core platform into microservices and event‑driven services.
• Lead discussions on complex technical concepts with stakeholders and drive technical decisions.
• Write clean, well‑tested, well‑documented code and documentation.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to plan, build, and ship features.
• Mentor team members through pair programming and code reviews.
• Re‑architect and refactor existing systems and shape long‑term architectural vision.
• Advocate for engineering best practices, quality, and test automation.

Skills

PHP

API design

SQL

Performance

Microservices

Leadership

Code quality

Teamwork

Mentoring

Refactoring

Test automation

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Laravel

Symfony

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Cloudbeds is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Booking Engine squad. You will implement scalable architectures, build APIs and integrations, and evolve data models for availability, pricing, and reservations across a global platform.

You will own performance and reliability at scale, contribute to migrating to microservices, and lead technical discussions with stakeholders while mentoring teammates. Remote-first collaboration enables a distributed, high‑impact team.