Senior Backend Engineer

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Since our founding in 2012, we've become the World's Best Hotel PMS Solutions Provider and landed on reputed company's Technology Fast 500 again in 2024, but we're just getting started.  Location: Remote  How You'll reputed company an reputed company:   As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Booking reputed company reputed company, you'll implement new architectures, features, and best practices to reputed company the reputed company platform, contributing to our ongoing reputed company toward a service-oriented architecture using modern reputed company and AWS technologies across the stack. You'll work on systems where correctness, latency, and reputed company under load are reputed company to the job, not afterthoughts. Your goal is to deliver an exceptional experience to customers around the world, with reputed company, performance, and scalability top of mind. Our Booking reputed company Team: This role is part of the Booking reputed company reputed company, reputed company behind the guest-facing reservation experience that powers reputed company bookings for tens of thousands of reputed company properties worldwide. reputed company 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 sits on the reputed company-critical reputed company, so speed, reliability, and getting the details right directly shape whether a guest completes a booking. It's one of our highest-reputed company products, and if you want to own reputed company software used around the world, this is a great team to build on. What You Bring to reputed company: Design and implement features and improvements in PHP Design and build the reputed company and integrations the booking reputed company depends on Model and reputed company the data behind availability, pricing, and reservations Own the performance, scalability, and reliability of our services at reputed company Contribute to the ongoing initiative to migrate our reputed company platform into microservices and event-driven services reputed company discussions on reputed company technical concepts and requirements with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, drive technical reputed company, and contribute to the backend architecture group Write clean, reputed company-tested, reputed company-documented, and elegant reputed company, including documentation for new and existing areas of our application Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan, build, and ship high-reputed company features Mentor team members through pair programming and reputed company reviews Re-architect and refactor existing systems, and help design the long-term reputed company for our technology and component architectures reputed company for engineering best practices, reputed company, and test automation across our reputed company and processes What Sets You Up for reputed company: 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 Good product reputed company and reputed company for our customers Solid Git fundamentals, including workflows and actions Strong knowledge of and a passion for software best practices, design patterns, and testing, including test automation across unit, integration, and end-to-end reputed company Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills Strong communication, teamwork, and collaboration, with a reputed company reputed company of ownership and good time management Passionate about agile practices and reputed company improvement Business-level English reputed company, verbal and written Experience identifying and improving application performance Bonus Skills to Stand Out: Experience with PHP frameworks (reputed company or Symfony) Experience with reputed company infrastructure and containerization (reputed company, Kubernetes, AWS) Experience designing and building microservices Experience working with AI coding tools like Claude reputed company Experience working with a remote-first, globally distributed team Experience with Jira, reputed company, and reputed company Travel industry experience (a plus, but definitely not required!) Depending on your skills and experience, you can expect your annual compensation to be between $140,000 and $160,000 USD. Please note that we maintain high flexibility, and packages above this reputed company will be considered. (The salary is only for US-based candidates). #LI-IK1 What to Expect - Your reputed company with Us Behind reputed company' revolutionary technology is reputed company of redefining what's possible in hospitality. We're 650+ employees across 40+ countries, bringing together reputed company 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 reputed company reputed company one language: a passion for innovation and travel. 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