Senior PHP Backend Engineer - Remote & Scalable

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Home office stipend

Full paid parental leave

Monthly Wellness Fridays

PTO in accordance with local labor law

Professional development

Job summary

Cloudbeds seeks a Senior Backend Engineer for the Booking Engine squad. You will implement scalable architectures and features in PHP, design APIs and data models for availability, pricing and reservations, and own performance and reliability at scale.

As part of a remote-first, globally distributed team, you will drive architectural decisions and mentor others while advancing towards microservices and event-driven designs.

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.
• 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 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.
• Contribute to migrating core platform into microservices and event-driven services.
• Lead discussions on complex technical concepts with stakeholders, 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.
• Re-architect and refactor existing systems and shape long-term architecture.
• Advocate for engineering best practices and test automation.

Skills

PHP web applications

Relational databases

API-driven design

Git fundamentals

Test automation

Agile practices

Communication & collaboration

English fluency

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Laravel

Symfony

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Cloudbeds seeks a Senior Backend Engineer for the Booking Engine squad. You will implement scalable architectures and features in PHP, design APIs and data models for availability, pricing and reservations, and own performance and reliability at scale.

As part of a remote-first, globally distributed team, you will drive architectural decisions and mentor others while advancing towards microservices and event-driven designs.