How You'll Make an Impact:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help deliver an exceptional product experience to our customers all around the world.  This could be for hotel guests, creating a user experience that makes travelers feel welcome, comfortable, and inspired to share the joy of travel with others. Or it could be for our accommodation providers, building trusted, simple, easy-to-use features to support key aspects of their daily business. Helping nearly 10,000 properties globally to process billions in transactions every year.

Our Payments Team:

At Cloudbeds, our Payments tribe builds the systems that keep money moving securely, efficiently, and globally for thousands of our customers. We love solving complex, interconnected problems, integrating with global partner APIs, designing for compliance and security, and constantly iterating on better, more scalable payment solutions. 

Working on Cloudbeds Payments means joining a supportive, collaborative group of engineers who are building the financial backbone of the industry, together.

What You Bring to the Team:

• Ownership mindset: You take responsibility for the quality and reliability of your contributions, collaborating closely with peers to design, build, and operate systems together.
• Technical excellence: You write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code. Caring deeply about system quality, performance, and scalability.
• API craftsmanship: You’re skilled at integrating with complex partner APIs and designing resilient, secure interfaces for payment systems.
• Security and compliance awareness: You understand the importance of PCI, data privacy, and secure-by-design principles in payment systems.
• Collaboration under pressure: You thrive in problem-solving moments, communicate clearly, and contribute to quick resolutions.
• Continuous learning: You’re curious about how things connect across the platform, eager to learn from peers, and open to sharing your own knowledge.
• Strategic thinking: You see beyond the task, understanding how architectural decisions impact scalability, costs, and long-term flexibility.
  

What Sets You Up for Success:

• 5+ years of PHP web application software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience working with MySQL or PostgreSQL. Tuning and optimization skills are preferred.
• 1+ years of experience in designing and developing event-driven microservices in either PHP or Java.
• Experience with modern infrastructure tooling (e.g. DataDog, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Terraform, ArgoCD).
• A strong business sense and ability to collaborate with leadership and non-technical stakeholders on highly visible projects.
• 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.

Bonus Skills to Stand Out (Optional):

• Solid understanding of secure software engineering with experience in regulated environments; familiarity with PCI-DSS, similar compliance frameworks preferred.
• Experience in engineering software for large-scale solutions, utilizing modern tooling to get you there, and Experience with large-scale Domain Driven Design 
• Experience in the Payments domain and/or travel industry experience.

Compensation: Depending on your skills and experience, you can expect your annual compensation to be between $130,000 and $160,000 USD. Please note that we maintain high flexibility, and packages above this range will be considered. (The salary is only for US-based candidates).

Work Authorization: Please note that applicants must be currently authorized to work in the location where the position is located without requiring visa sponsorship. At this time, Cloudbeds is unable to provide sponsorship for work visas.