Senior PHP Backend Engineer - Remote, Microservices & AWS

Cloudbeds; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

PTO & holidays

Parental leave

Wellness Fridays

Remote-first company

Travel flexibility

Learning & development

Job summary

Cloudbeds is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Booking Engine Squad. You will implement architectures and features to scale our SaaS platform, migrating toward microservices and event-driven design on AWS.

You’ll focus on correctness, latency, and reliability while delivering a high-quality experience to property partners worldwide. You’ll join a remote-first team writing PHP, shaping data models for availability and pricing, and owning performance and scalability at scale.

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.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Strong communication, teamwork, and collaboration, with ownership and 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.
• Lead discussions on complex technical concepts with stakeholders.
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented code and maintain docs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan, build, and ship features.
• Mentor team members through pair programming and code reviews.
• Re-architect and refactor existing systems and shape long-term vision.
• Advocate for engineering best practices and test automation.

Skills

PHP

APIs

Git

Performance

Agile

English

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Remote work

Microservices

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Jira

Confluence

GitHub

Job description

Cloudbeds is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Booking Engine Squad. You will implement architectures and features to scale our SaaS platform, migrating toward microservices and event-driven design on AWS.

You’ll focus on correctness, latency, and reliability while delivering a high-quality experience to property partners worldwide. You’ll join a remote-first team writing PHP, shaping data models for availability and pricing, and owning performance and scalability at scale.