Cloudbeds is the leading platform redefining the concept of PMS for the hospitality industry, serving tens of thousands of properties in more than 150 countries worldwide. Built from the ground up to be masterfully unified and scalable, the award-winning Cloudbeds Platform brings together built-in and integrated solutions that modernize hotel operations, distribution, guest experience, and data & analytics. 

Behind the Cloudbeds platform is a growing team of 750+ employees distributed across 40+ countries speaking 30+ languages. We are engineers and designers, hotel managers and travel agents, and experts on everything from big data to e-commerce to compliance. The Cloudbeds team comprises the brightest minds in technology and hospitality working to solve the industry's biggest challenges. 

From the beginning, we've believed that our people are our greatest asset, so we founded the company as #RemoteFirst, #RemoteAlways with shared core values and tenets that allow our team to thrive. This means we:

  • Embrace Remote First, Remote Always culture
  • Hire the best people around the world; 
  • Prioritize our customers and results over titles
  • Foster an inclusive culture that celebrates bold thinking and diverse perspectives; 
  • Offer open vacation time, flexible paid holidays, and company-wide mental health days;
  • Provide access to professional development, including manager training, upskilling and knowledge transfer, and free access to LinkedIn Learning and other platforms

Together we're on a mission to power every property in the world, and to do that, we need to find the best talent in the world. That's why we're on the search for a superstar Senior Backend Engineer.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will implement new architectures, features, and best practices to scale the Cloudbeds platform. You will contribute to new efforts in service-oriented architectures, leveraging the latest, cutting edge technologies. As a Senior Backend Engineer, your goal is to deliver an exceptional experience to our customers all around the world with quality, performance, and scalability top of mind. Alongside your team, you will leverage the latest, modern SaaS and Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies across all layers of the software stack.

Location: US/Canada/LATAM- Remote

What You Will Do: 

  • As a member of the Booking Engine Team you will contribute towards supporting Cloudbeds’ Booking Engine Experiences
  • You will primarily be implementing features and improvements utilizing PHP and NodeJS
  • You will help lead discussions on complex technical concepts and requirements with both technical and non-technical stakeholders as a contributor to the backend architecture group
  • You should be familiar with writing clean, well-tested, well-documented, and elegant code
  • Write documentation for new and existing areas of our application
  • Contributing 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
  • Write clean, well-documented, and beautiful code
  • Promote best practices to improve the quality of our code and processes
  • Drive technical decisions within the team
  • Advocate for quality and test automation

You’ll Succeed With: 

  • 5+ years of experience in one or more modern PHP frameworks (Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter)
  • 3+ Typescript and NodeJS
  • 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)

Nice to Have:

  • 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)

#LI-REMOTE #LI-SD1

 

Our company culture supports flexible working schedules with an open Paid Time Away policy and gives all team members the opportunity to travel and work remotely with great people. If you think you have the skills and passion, we’ll give you the support and opportunity to thrive in your career. If you would like to be considered for the role, we would love to hear from you!

Company Awards to Check Out! 

  • Best Places to Work | HotelTechReport (2018-2023)
  • Best PMS | HotelTechReport (2021-2023)
  • Technology Fast 500 | Deloitte (2023)
  • Fastest Growing Companies | Inc. 5000 (2022)
  • Best Startup Employers | Forbes (2022)
  • Best Remote Companies to Work | BuiltIn (2022)

 

Cloudbeds is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer that celebrates the diversity in our global team! We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Cloudbeds is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Cloudbeds will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations in the hiring process. We encourage deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, and deaf-disabled individuals to apply. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process or to perform essential job functions, please contact our HR team by phone at 858-201-7832 or via email at accommodations@cloudbeds.com. Cloudbeds will provide an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter where needed as a reasonable accommodation for the hiring processes.

To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: 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.

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