Staff Backend Engineer

What Makes Us Unique

At Cloudbeds, we're not just building software, we’re transforming hospitality. Our intelligently designed platform powers properties across 150 countries, processing billions in bookings annually. From independent properties to hotel groups, we help hoteliers transform operations and uplevel their commercial strategy through a unified platform that integrates with hundreds of partners. And we do it with a completely remote team. Imagine working alongside global innovators to build AI-powered solutions that solve hoteliers' biggest challenges. 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.

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 Staff Software Engineer, to work with the Integrations team, and help us play our part in reinventing the world of hospitality tech and travel.

As a Staff Software Engineer on our Integrations team, you will help design and deliver the API’s, marketplace and infrastructure used to let our third-party partners integrate with Cloudbeds to extend the experience and features available to our customers.  Your work will be critical to the success of Cloudbeds and its partner ecosystem, delivering high reliability and quality in a distributed cloud environment spanning Cloudbeds and our partners.

Our development strategy is to deliver trusted, scalable, and reliable products leveraging the best of modern technologies, tools, and standards.  For the Staff Software Engineering role, we are looking for someone who has worked with a broad range of patterns, practices, libraries, and frameworks and has mastered all phases of delivering software.  You will participate in strategic decisions regarding the use of libraries and tools.  You will work to define requirements, architectural design, do exploratory development, create new components and services, and drive the adoption of new tools and techniques.

Location: Remote - EU

What You Will Do:

• Develop in the existing codebase using Java, Python and PHP

• Lead discussions on complex technical concepts and requirements
  with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented, and elegant code.

• Support a team environment where skill, knowledge, and capability are fostered and highly valued.

• Drive our API to be loved by our partners, enabling them to deliver their work into the Cloudbeds ecosystem at high scale.

• Assist in researching new technologies to ensure the best fit, quality, and outcome.

• Collaborate with our customers and partners to find the best solution to problems

You’ll Succeed With:

• 10+ years of web application software engineering experience in Java, Python or PHP

• 3+ years of experience in designing and developing event-driven microservices

• Experience with modern infrastructure tooling (e.g. DataDog, GitHub, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS).

• A passion for developers and API’s, no matter what platform or language they use

• A solid understanding of REST API’s and best practices

• Experience within an organization that focused on high availability, scalability, security, automation, and observability.

• Solid understanding of secure software engineering concerns.

• Dedication towards observability by leveraging metrics, experiments, and prototypes to ensure decisions are data-driven.

• Strong knowledge and a passion for software engineering best practices, design patterns, and automated testing.

• Strong teamwork and time management skills.

• Strong communication skills and diplomacy. Our teams communicate in English, but few speak it as a first language

Nice to Have:

• Experience working with a remote-first and globally distributed team

• Experience in engineering software for large-scale solutions, utilizing modern tooling to get you there.

• Travel industry experience is a plus but not required.

What to Expect - Your Journey with Us

Behind Cloudbeds' revolutionary technology is a team of redefining what's possible in hospitality. We're 650+ employees across 40+ countries, bringing together elite engineers, AI architects, world-class designers, and hospitality veterans to solve challenges others haven't dared to tackle. Our diverse team speaks 30+ languages, but we all share one language: a passion for innovation and travel. From pioneering breakthroughs in machine learning to revolutionizing how hotels operate, we're not just watching the future of hospitality unfold – we're coding it, designing it, writing it and shipping it. If you're ready to work alongside some of the brightest minds in tech who are obsessed with using AI to transform a trillion-dollar industry, this is your chance to be part of something extraordinary.

Learn more online at cloudbeds.com

Company Awards to Check Out!

• 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)

Discover our Benefits:

• Remote First, Remote Always

• PTO in accordance with local labor requirements

• 2 corporate apartment accommodations for team member use for free (San Diego & São Paulo)

• Full Paid Parental Leave

• Home office stipend based on country of residency

• Professional development courses in Cloudbeds University

• Access provided to professional Therapy and Coaching

• Access to professional development, including manager training, upskilling and knowledge transfer.

Everyone is Welcome - A Culutre of Inclusion

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 accomodations@cloudbeds.com. Cloudbeds will provide an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter where needed as a reasonable accommodation for the hiring processes.

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