Cloudbeds is hiring a
Senior Back End Software Engineer

Summary

The job description is for a Senior Backend Engineer position at Cloudbeds, a leading platform in the hospitality industry. The role involves implementing new architectures and features to scale the platform using PHP and NodeJS, working remotely, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The compensation is between $130-165K.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in one or more modern PHP frameworks (Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter)
• 3+ years working with and designing REST APIs
• A strong business sense and ability to collaborate with leadership and non-technical stakeholders on highly visible projects
• Expert knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, indexing, and searching technologies
• A passion for data-driven decision-making (metrics, experiments, prototypes)
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Strong knowledge and a passion for software best practices, design patterns, and testing
• Strong teamwork, leadership, and time management skills
• Passionate about agile practices and continuous improvement
• Business-level English fluency required (verbal and written skills)

Responsibilities

• Implement new architectures, features, and best practices to scale the Cloudbeds platform
• Contribute towards supporting Cloudbeds’ Booking Engine Experiences
• Help lead discussions on complex technical concepts and requirements with both technical and non-technical stakeholders as a contributor to the backend architecture group
• Write documentation for new and existing areas of our application
• Contribute towards the ongoing initiative to migrate our core platform into microservices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan, build and ship high quality features
• Mentor team members through practices like pair programming and code reviews
• Re-architect and re-factor existing systems to align with project requirements
• Help design the long term vision of our technology and new component architectures

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and building microservices
• Experience with gRPC and protobuf
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)
• Experience working with a remote-first and globally distributed team
• Travel industry experience is a plus (but definitely not required!)
• Experience with Atlassian products (Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket)

Benefits

Flexible working schedules with an open Paid Time Away policy