remote

Salary
$140,000–$160,000from the description
Posted
Jul 13, 2026
Location
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A senior backend engineering role focused on the guest-facing direct booking product within a hospitality SaaS platform. Day-to-day work involves designing and building PHP-based features and APIs, modeling availability and pricing data, and owning service performance and reliability. The role also involves contributing to a broader migration toward microservices, mentoring teammates, and driving backend architecture decisions. Suits experienced PHP engineers comfortable with high-traffic, revenue-critical systems.

Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time

Must have (4)
PHP · 5+ yrsRESTrelational databasesGit
Nice to have (8)
Laravel or SymfonyDocker or KubernetesAWSmicroservicesClaude CodeJiraConfluenceGitHub

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

Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.

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How this req sits in the market our data

Roughly 43,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 25,800–64,500

Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.

What won't set you apart
relational databases51%

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 requirement is explicitly tied to PHP web application engineering, so it is captured both as the role-level 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; no specific database product is named.

API-driven design is required but no specific protocol beyond the general API pattern is named; captured as REST to represent the API design gate.

Laravel and Symfony appear together under 'Bonus Skills' as interchangeable alternatives — emitted as a single preferred skill.

Docker and Kubernetes appear together under 'Bonus Skills' as cloud/containerization experience — emitted as a single preferred skill with Kubernetes as an alternative.

Claude Code is listed under 'Bonus Skills' as an example of AI coding tools; captured as preferred.

Jira, Confluence, and GitHub are listed together under 'Bonus Skills'; each is a distinct tool and emitted separately as preferred.

The posted salary range ($140,000–$160,000 USD/year) is explicitly noted as applying to US-based candidates only, with a note that packages above the range will be considered.

Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.

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