Senior PHP Backend Engineer - Remote Booking Engine

Cloudbeds; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first team

Home office stipend

Paid parental leave

Wellness Fridays

Job summary

Cloudbeds is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Booking Engine squad. You will design, implement, and scale PHP-based features and APIs that power direct bookings for thousands of properties globally.

You’ll help migrate to microservices, ensure performance and reliability, and collaborate with a remote-first, globally distributed team. You will mentor others, write clear documentation, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality features that impact guests worldwide.

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 and a passion for 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 core platform into microservices and event-driven services.
• Lead discussions on complex technical concepts with stakeholders and drive decisions.
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented code and documentation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan, build, and ship features.
• Mentor team members through pair programming and code reviews.
• Refactor existing systems and contribute to long-term architecture vision.
• Advocate for engineering best practices, quality, and test automation.

Skills

PHP

Relational databases

API design

Product sense

Git fundamentals

Test automation

Problem solving

Communication

Agile

English fluency

Performance optimization

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Cloudbeds is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Booking Engine squad. You will design, implement, and scale PHP-based features and APIs that power direct bookings for thousands of properties globally.

You’ll help migrate to microservices, ensure performance and reliability, and collaborate with a remote-first, globally distributed team. You will mentor others, write clear documentation, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality features that impact guests worldwide.