Senior Backend Engineer — Remote, Scalable Booking Engine

Cloudbeds; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Full paid parental leave

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Cloudbeds is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Booking Engine Squad. You will build scalable PHP-backed services, design APIs, and evolve data models for availability, pricing, and reservations.

You’ll own performance and reliability while migrating towards microservices and event-driven architectures in a global, remote team. Join a leadership‑driven engineering culture focused on best practices, testing, and collaboration with cross-functional partners to ship high‑quality features

Qualifications

• 5+ years of PHP web application software engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, indexing, and searching technologies.
• Experience with API-driven design and development.
• Business-level English fluency, verbal and written.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerization.

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.
• Lead discussions on complex technical concepts and requirements with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, drive technical decisions, and contribute to the backend architecture group.
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented, and elegant code, including documentation for new and existing areas of our application.
• 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 the long-term vision for our technology and component architectures.
• Advocate for engineering best practices, quality, and test automation across our code and processes.

Skills

PHP

Relational databases

API-driven design

Git fundamentals

Testing & test automation

Agile practices

English communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Microservices

Job description

Cloudbeds is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Booking Engine Squad. You will build scalable PHP-backed services, design APIs, and evolve data models for availability, pricing, and reservations.

You’ll own performance and reliability while migrating towards microservices and event-driven architectures in a global, remote team. Join a leadership‑driven engineering culture focused on best practices, testing, and collaboration with cross-functional partners to ship high‑quality features