Miami, FL

Salary
$159,000–$176,000from the description
Posted
Jul 12, 2026
Location
Miami, FL
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A senior individual contributor role focused on building and maintaining server-side systems for a large-scale video platform. Day-to-day work spans designing APIs, optimizing MySQL schemas and queries, implementing caching strategies, and modernizing legacy PHP codebases, all in a high-traffic production environment. Best suited to an experienced backend engineer comfortable owning systems end to end across PHP, Linux, and data-intensive application layers.

Senior level · 8+ years · National · Full-time

Must have (8)
PHP · 5+ yrsMySQLMemcached or RedisLinuxRESTJavaScript or TypeScriptHTMLCSS
Nice to have (6)
NGINXWebSocketBashPHPStanPHPUnitCI/CD

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

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How this req sits in the market our data

What won't set you apart
JavaScript62%HTML55%CSS53%Linux45%MySQL40%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (6)

The JD states 10+ years of OOP experience and 8+ years of back-end development; the overall years minimum is set to 8 (the role-level gate), while the 5+ years of PHP is captured as the years demanded on that skill.

Memcached and Redis are both named as required caching systems used together ('Memcached and Redis'), not as interchangeable alternatives — they are emitted as separate required skills. The 'such as' qualifier in the JD ('caching systems such as Memcached and Redis') is a substitution qualifier on the category, but both named tools are listed under the hard-requirements section and are treated as gates.

JavaScript/TypeScript are listed as interchangeable ('JavaScript or TypeScript') in the qualifications; JavaScript is the primary with TypeScript as an alternative.

HTML and CSS appear alongside JavaScript/TypeScript in the same required qualifications bullet and are emitted as separate required skills.

The degree (Computer Science or related) appears only under Preferred Qualifications, so the degree requirement is set to None.

Video technologies, containers, codecs, live streaming, NGINX, WebSocket, Bash, PHPStan, PHPUnit, and CI/CD all appear under Preferred Qualifications and are marked preferred.

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