Software Engineer PHP

We are seeking a Software Engineer PHP for our team in West Palm Beach, FL. We offer comprehensive benefits to eligible employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability, and ADD coverage. Salaried employees also receive paid time off, while hourly employees may qualify for paid sick leave when required by law. This role is not eligible for bonuses, incentives, or commissions. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to protected status.

Requirements

- We need at least 3 years of professional software development experience, with strong hands-on expertise in modern PHP 8+ and frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, or Slim. - We need experience building RESTful APIs using current design standards. - We need experience with Redis for caching, distributed locking, queueing, and performance tuning. - We need experience working with cloud platforms such as Vultr, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure, along with infrastructure-as-code tools. - We need strong MySQL knowledge, including schema design and query optimization for high-volume systems. - We need familiarity with message queues and asynchronous processing technologies such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, or Redis Streams. - We need familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and Git-based development practices. - We need proficiency with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes. - We need excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with distributed teams.

Responsibilities

- We design, build, and maintain high-performance PHP applications that handle millions of API requests each day. - We design and tune MySQL schemas, queries, and indexes for speed and reliability. - We implement and support RESTful APIs aligned with modern API standards, including OpenAPI and versioning best practices. - We develop asynchronous workflows, background jobs, queues, and event-driven integrations where needed. - We take part in architecture discussions, incident response, and root-cause analysis for production issues. - We participate in code reviews and help strengthen our engineering best practices. - We write clean, well-tested code with thorough unit and integration test coverage.