Senior Backend Engineer
Cloudbeds
- North, South Carolina, United States
- Remote
- $140,000 - $160,000 a year
- Posted Aug 20, 2026
Job description
About the role
The Senior Backend Engineer will join the Booking Engine squad, building and scaling the guest‑facing reservation system. The role involves designing and implementing PHP features, APIs, and data models, migrating to microservices, and ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability for a revenue‑critical product used worldwide.
About the company
Cloudbeds is a remote‑first hospitality‑technology company that provides an AI‑powered, all‑in‑one platform for hotels and properties in over 150 countries, processing billions of bookings annually. Founded in 2012, it has grown to 650+ employees across 40+ countries and has earned multiple industry awards.
Requirements
- 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 customers
- Solid Git fundamentals, including workflows and actions
- Strong knowledge of and 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
- Passion for agile practices and continuous improvement
- Business‑level English fluency, verbal and written
- Experience identifying and improving application performance
- Experience with PHP frameworks (Laravel or Symfony)
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)
- Experience designing and building microservices
- Experience working with AI coding tools like Claude Code
- Experience working with a remote‑first, globally distributed team
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, and GitHub
- Travel industry experience (a plus)