Principal Software Engineer - Payments

Posted Sep 29

Cloudbeds provides the platform that powers hospitality, driving streamlined operations, increasing reservations and revenue, and enabling memorable guest experiences for lodging businesses of all sizes and types. Named the No. 1 PMS and No. 1 Hotel Management System by Hotel Tech Report in 2022, Cloudbeds is trusted by properties across the globe for its award-winning front desk, revenue, distribution, guest acquisition and guest engagement solutions seamlessly combined in a single unified system.

Behind the Cloudbeds platform is a growing team of 700+ employees distributed across 40+ countries speaking 30+ languages. From data architects to UX designers, integrations managers to payments experts, former hotel managers to former OTA executives, our 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 that allow our team to thrive. This means we:

Hire the best people around the world;
Emphasize the value of results over hours put in;
Provide flexibility in working hours and locations;
Foster an inclusive environment that celebrates bold thinking and diverse perspectives;
Offer open vacation policies, free LinkedIn Learning, and other benefits that promote well-being and professional development.

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

As a Principal Software Engineer on our Payments team, 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.

Our development strategy is to deliver trusted, scalable, and reliable products leveraging the best of modern technologies, tools, and standards. For the Principal Engineering role, we are looking for someone who can think and communicate architecturally and has worked with a broad range of patterns, practices, libraries, and frameworks. You will participate in strategic decisions regarding the use of libraries and tools. You will assist with architectural design, exploratory programming, and the design of reusable and composable react components and business logic.

Location: Remote - EU regions

What You Will Do:

Collaborate with cross-functional teams and multi-level stakeholders to plan, design, build and ship high quality features.
Be a mentor to other engineers through practices like pair programming and code reviews.
Re-architect and re-factor existing systems to align with project requirements, advocating for design best practices and a high code quality.
Lead architecture decisions on Tribe level. Propose solutions and POCs. Guide and implement them together with the squads.
Design the long term vision of our technology and new component architectures.
Write clean, well-documented, and beautiful code.
Advocate for quality and test automation.

You’ll Succeed With:

10+ years of PHP web application software engineering experience.
5+ years of experience in one or more modern PHP frameworks (Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter)
3+ years of experience with Java
FE experience (vue.js, React or relevant)
Strong communication skills and diplomacy. Our teams communicate in English, but few speak it as a first language
A strong business sense and ability to collaborate with leadership and non-technical stakeholders on highly visible projects
Ability to wield technical influence without power and to resolve technical disputes rationally. Have the passion for new technologies needed to explore new ways of doing things, but also have the wisdom to know most aren’t needed.
Ability to quickly understand large software components
A passion for data-driven decision making (metrics, experiments, prototypes, …)
Understanding and evaluating short and long term risk vs implementation speed for different technologies.
Deep understanding of scalability and DevOps maintainability.
Expert knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, indexing, and searching technologies, either MySQL, Postgres, Aurora or similar.
Experience designing and building microservice solutions based on (Kafka, Debezium or relevant).
Experience with cloud infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS).
Strong knowledge and a passion for software best practices, SOLID principles, design patterns, code review and testing.
Strong teamwork, leadership, and time management skills.
Experience with working with Payment Systems and Processes, such as Payment Gateways and Processors and Online payment platforms. As well as experience with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Emerging -- Fintech-related -- Payment Technologies.

Nice to Have:

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] and/or Github.

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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!

Fastest Growing Companies | Inc. 500 (2018 & 2019)
Best Places to Work | Inc Magazine (2017 & 2018)
Best Places to Work | HotelTechReport (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
Best Property Management System | HotelTechReport (2021, 2022)
Best Hotel Management Software | HotelTechReport (2022)
Start-Ups to Watch | Forbes (2018)
Best Startup Employers | Forbes (2020, 2022)
Technology Fast 500 | Deloitte (2019, 2020, 2021)
Top 100 North America | Red Herring (2020)
Connect MIP Award (Technology)

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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