Python (Web)Backend Developer

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