Senior Backend Engineer - PHP & Cloud SaaS (Remote)

Cloudbeds; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Fully paid parental leave

PTO

Job summary

Cloudbeds, a remote-first hospitality software company, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Booking Engine squad. You will design and scale services, focusing on correctness, latency, and resilience across the stack to support tens of thousands of properties worldwide.

You’ll work on PHP-based APIs, data models for availability and pricing, and contribute to migrating to microservices and event-driven architecture on AWS.

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 with stakeholders and drive technical decisions.
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented code with good 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 help design long-term architecture visions.
• Advocate for engineering best practices, quality, and test automation.

Skills

PHP

Relational databases

API design

Git

Test automation

AWS

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Laravel

Symfony

Job description

Cloudbeds, a remote-first hospitality software company, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Booking Engine squad. You will design and scale services, focusing on correctness, latency, and resilience across the stack to support tens of thousands of properties worldwide.

You’ll work on PHP-based APIs, data models for availability and pricing, and contribute to migrating to microservices and event-driven architecture on AWS.