Senior Backend Engineer: AI-First Workflow (Remote)

Cloudbeds; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 130,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote First

Monthly Wellness Fridays

Fully Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Cloudbeds is a remote-first company transforming hospitality with AI-powered solutions. We’re a global team of 650+ engineers driving an enterprise platform used by properties in 150 countries.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Workflow Squad, you’ll design, build, and operate backend services in PHP and Java, own end-to-end changes, and contribute to architecture while shipping reliable, scalable software powered by Claude Code and modern data pipelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building production applications.
• Strong proficiency in PHP and/or Java.
• Solid understanding of API design, relational data modeling, PostgreSQL.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar messaging systems, REST, and gRPC.
• Experience with cloud-native delivery and operations (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services and product capabilities primarily in PHP and Java.
• 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.
• 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

PostgreSQL

Kafka

REST

gRPC

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

Cloudbeds is a remote-first company transforming hospitality with AI-powered solutions. We’re a global team of 650+ engineers driving an enterprise platform used by properties in 150 countries.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Workflow Squad, you’ll design, build, and operate backend services in PHP and Java, own end-to-end changes, and contribute to architecture while shipping reliable, scalable software powered by Claude Code and modern data pipelines.