Senior Back End Engineer at Peerspace
$170,000–$190,000from the description
Jul 7, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role at an online venue-rental marketplace, focused on designing and maintaining scalable services written primarily in Clojure, with some upkeep of older Node.js systems. The work spans RESTful API development, cloud deployments, and infrastructure-as-code practices, and involves close collaboration with product, DevOps, and engineering teams. Best suited to someone with 5–8 years of backend experience.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 170,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 71,500–255,000
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
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)
Clojure is the primary language for new service development and is listed under Qualifications with firm language ('Proficiency in Clojure'); treated as a hard gate.
Node.js is listed under Qualifications but framed as 'Familiarity with … especially for supporting legacy services' — a softer qualifier. However, it sits in the required Qualifications block alongside Clojure, so it is retained as a hard gate; the framing suggests depth is not expected to match Clojure.
Infrastructure-as-code appears in Qualifications only as 'Exposure to … tools and practices' — the weakest qualifier in the block — so it is marked preferred.
The 5–8 year range is stated as a single experience band; the overall years minimum is set to 5 (the lower bound).
No specific cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure) is named; 'cloud environments' is too generic to emit as a named skill.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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