Middle PHP Developer at Blossom
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Jul 20, 2026
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Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend-focused PHP role building and maintaining features for a financial services platform aimed at credit unions. Day-to-day work covers service-oriented architecture, third-party API and SSO integrations, relational database design, and containerized development with Docker, with AI-assisted coding tools actively incorporated into the workflow. Suited to a mid-level PHP developer with at least three years of object-oriented experience.
Mid level · 3+ years · Remote
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 22,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 13,300–33,200
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).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting uses the term 'Middle PHP Developer', which is a European/Eastern European convention for a mid-level engineer. The advertised seniority is mapped to Mid accordingly.
The role is fully remote and compensation is stated to be in USD, but the company is US-based while the posting appears targeted at non-US candidates (no US location specified, B1 English requirement, 'Middle' seniority framing). The US-based flag is set to false as the primary work location is outside the US.
The AI-assisted development tools requirement (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or similar) is listed under Required Qualifications; GitHub Copilot is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
MySQL and PostgreSQL are listed together as interchangeable relational database options; emitted as one skill with PostgreSQL as an alternative.
Kendo UI, Tailwind CSS, and AWS appear under the 'Nice to Have' section.
No compensation figures are provided; the posting only notes that compensation is in USD.
The mention of 'infrastructure-as-code' under Nice to Have names no specific tool (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi), so it was omitted per the no-generic-concepts rule.
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