Senior Backend Engineer – AI-Driven Workflow (Remote)

Cloudbeds; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 130,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Fully Paid Parental Leave

Home office stipend

Professional development

Remote First, Remote Always

Job summary

Cloudbeds is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Workflow Squad and design, build, and operate backend services primarily in PHP and Java. You will own end-to-end changes, work in a polyglot stack, and collaborate across Product, Design, Infrastructure, Security, and Engineering teams in a remote, globally distributed environment.

You’ll ship reliable APIs and data models with PostgreSQL, Kafka, REST, and gRPC, while embracing AI-first development using Claude Code as a starting

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building, shipping, and operating production applications.
• Strong proficiency in PHP and/or Java.
• Solid understanding of API design, relational data modeling, PostgreSQL, distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar messaging and streaming systems, REST, and gRPC.

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

Kafka

PostgreSQL

REST

gRPC

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Cloudbeds is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Workflow Squad and design, build, and operate backend services primarily in PHP and Java. You will own end-to-end changes, work in a polyglot stack, and collaborate across Product, Design, Infrastructure, Security, and Engineering teams in a remote, globally distributed environment.

You’ll ship reliable APIs and data models with PostgreSQL, Kafka, REST, and gRPC, while embracing AI-first development using Claude Code as a starting