Senior Backend Engineer for Global Booking Engine (Remote)

Cloudbeds; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Fully Paid Parental Leave

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Cloudbeds, a remote-first hospitality software provider, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer for the Booking Engine squad. You will implement architectures, features, and best practices to scale the platform, moving toward microservices and event-driven services with a focus on correctness, latency, and resilience.

You will own performance, collaborate across teams, mentor peers, and help define the long-term architecture on a globally used system.

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 migrating our core platform into microservices and event-driven services
• Lead discussions on complex technical concepts and requirements with stakeholders
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented code and 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 shape long-term tech vision
• Advocate for engineering best practices, quality, and test automation

Skills

PHP

Relational DBs

APIs

Git

Testing

Performance

Mentoring

Tools

Laravel

Symfony

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Jira

Confluence

GitHub

Claude Code

Job description

Cloudbeds, a remote-first hospitality software provider, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer for the Booking Engine squad. You will implement architectures, features, and best practices to scale the platform, moving toward microservices and event-driven services with a focus on correctness, latency, and resilience.

You will own performance, collaborate across teams, mentor peers, and help define the long-term architecture on a globally used system.