Senior Backend Engineer

Overview

Your mission Join the Revolution in Hospitality Tech! As a Senior Backend Engineer at Bookboost, you'll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the server-side logic that powers our applications. You'll work closely with front-end engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions. In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn, grow and experiment with the latest technologies to serve hospitality industry-first use cases spanning both the analytical and machine learning domains.

Tech Stack
: PHP | Laravel | Postgres | AWS | Elasticsearch | Snowflake | Docker | Dagster

• Collaborating closely with Product and Engineering teams to design, build, and maintain scalable backend infrastructure built in PHP/Laravel
• Developing, deploying, and monitoring our public facing APIs - a core component of our Customer Data Platform
• Designing and implementing integrations with third-party systems on top of Bookboost’s Customer Data Platform infrastructure
• Working closely with product teams to develop reusable backend resources and design patterns
• Participate in architectural decisions and help establish best practices, as well as have a hand in mentoring junior developers on the team

Experience

• 5+ years of professional experience in backend engineering
• Strong programming skills, with proficiency in PHP, especially the Laravel framework and PHP 8.3+
• Demonstrated experience with RESTful API design and implementation
• Familiarity with cloud-based data services (e.g., AWS, RDS), containerized infrastructure (e.g., ECS, Docker), and data movement (Batch, CDC, Streamed/Batch Transformations, Message Brokers)
• Natural bias towards AI-first product development, across both the developer experience and the features we ship in the product.
• Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership of systems and designs

At Bookboost, our product and engineering team work an adaptation of the Shape Up methodology. We work in this way to ensure we are working on the most valuable unit of work at all times, removing risk upfront and empowering our engineers to make technical decisions in collaboration with product and design. In addition, we work in 6-week cycles, long enough to build something meaningful start-to-finish and short enough that everyone can feel the deadline looming from the start, so they use the time wisely.

Following every 6-week cycle, we have 1-week Cooldown Weeks - a week of no product-prioritised work where engineers have the freedom to tackle that tech debt that has been bothering them for weeks or experiment with new tooling or feature improvements. We have multiple features in our product today which were born during a Cooldown Week!

Our AI vision We build with AI, and we expect everyone in engineering to work with AI every day. The job is shifting from writing syntax to designing systems. We want engineers to be architects
: people who define the right abstractions, shape the right interfaces, and use AI to move faster without lowering the bar on quality.

Bookboost is a Swedish hotel technology scale-up redefining how hotels connect with guests. In 2021, we launched a powerful, user-friendly multi-channel CRM platform and expanded with a Customer Data Platform in 2023. Since then, our platform has become a cornerstone for modern hospitality operations. Operating in 32 countries with 22 million active users, and holding a 4.9/5 rating on Hotel Tech Report, we’ve established ourselves as a trusted partner in the hospitality industry.

Our goal is not just to keep pace, but to set the pace by leading the market in hospitality engagement technology.

Oh, and one last thing If you’re reading this thinking “I don’t tick every single box,” don’t worry. We care more about passion, ambition, and growth mindset than a perfect resume. If you’re excited about this role and ready to make an impact, apply anyway. Let’s reshape hospitality together.