Cloudbedsthirdpartyboard
Senior Backend Engineer
Canada · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 9 days ago
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About the role
- And we do it with a completely remote team.
- Since our founding in 2012, we've become the World's Best Hotel PMS Solutions Provider and landed on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 again in 2024 - but we're just getting started.
- You'll work on systems where correctness, latency, and resilience under load are core to the job, not afterthoughts.
Responsibilities
- As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Booking Engine squad, you'll implement new architectures, features, and best practices to scale the Cloudbeds platform, contributing to our ongoing move toward a service-oriented architecture using modern SaaS and AWS technologies across the stack.
- Direct bookings are one of the most valuable channels we can win for a property, and we're constantly building new and innovative ways to help them capture that demand, from richer customization to entirely new booking experiences.
- It's one of our highest-leverage products, and if you want to own real software used around the world, this is a great team to build on.
- 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
- At Cloudbeds, we're not just building software, we're transforming hospitality.
- Our intelligently designed platform powers across 150 countries, processing billions in bookings annually.
- From independent to hotel groups, we help hoteliers transform operations and uplevel their commercial strategy through a unified platform that integrates with hundreds of partners.
- Imagine working alongside global innovators to build AI-powered solutions that solve hoteliers' biggest challenges.
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
- 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 the ongoing initiative to migrate our core platform into microservices and event-driven services
- 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
Skills
- 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, but definitely not required!)
Compensation
- Our intelligently designed platform powers across 150 countries, processing billions in bookings annually.
Benefits
- PTO in accordance with local labor requirements
- Monthly Wellness Fridays - enjoy an extra long weekend every month
- Full Paid Parental Leave
- Home office stipend based on country of residency
Company info
- Best All-In-One Hotel Management System | HotelTechAwards (2025)
- Overall 10 Best Places to Work | HotelTechAwards (2025)
- Most Loved Workplace® Certified (2024)
- Top 10 People's Choice(2024)
- Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (2024)
- Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Cloudbeds.
- Staffing, recruiting agencies, and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit applications, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited.
- Cloudbeds does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies.
- Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Cloudbeds employees, or any other company location.
- Cloudbeds is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.
- Your goal is to deliver an exceptional experience to customers around the world, with quality, performance, and scalability top of mind.
- This role is part of the Booking Engine Squad, the team behind the guest-facing reservation experience that powers direct bookings for tens of thousands of Cloudbeds worldwide.
- Good product sense and empathy for our customers
- As part of this commitment, Cloudbeds will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations in the hiring process.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer that celebrates the diversity in our global team!
- Cloudbeds will provide an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter where needed as a reasonable accommodation for the hiring processes.
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