Senior Backend Engineer at Cloudbeds
$140,000–$160,000from the description
Jul 12, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role focused on a guest-facing reservation and direct-booking platform serving tens of thousands of properties. Day-to-day work centers on PHP development — designing APIs, modeling availability and pricing data, and owning service performance and reliability — while contributing to a broader migration toward microservices and event-driven architecture on AWS. Suits an experienced backend engineer comfortable leading technical decisions and mentoring peers.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 40,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 24,000–60,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 (9)
The 5+ years experience requirement is explicitly tied to PHP web application engineering, so it is captured both as the overall years minimum and as the years demanded on the PHP skill.
Relational databases, indexing, and search are called out with 'expert knowledge' under the required qualifications section but no specific database product (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) is named.
API-driven design is required but no specific protocol beyond the general API pattern is named; REST is the canonical implied standard for a booking-engine context and is marked required.
Laravel and Symfony appear together as interchangeable alternatives under the 'Bonus Skills' section — one skill with alternatives.
Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS appear together under 'Bonus Skills'; Docker and Kubernetes are listed as alternatives to each other (containerization options), while AWS is a separate preferred skill.
Claude Code is listed under 'Bonus Skills' as an AI coding tool example — preferred.
Jira, Confluence, and GitHub are listed under 'Bonus Skills' — preferred.
The posted salary range ($140,000–$160,000 USD/year) is noted as applicable to US-based candidates only; the posting also states packages above this range may be considered.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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