Senior PHP Backend Developer (AI-Assisted Development)

Job description

Work Arrangement

- Employment Type: Full-Time

- Location: Remote

- Schedule: Full-Time with required overlap with US business hours

- Time Zone Requirement: Pacific Time overlap required

About the Role

Our Client is looking for a Senior PHP Backend Developer to join our Engineering team full-time and take ownership of our lead-capture ecosystem.

You’ll build, improve, and maintain interactive multi-step form funnels that capture and route consumer leads, integrate with third-party APIs, and support analytics that drive conversion and revenue performance.

This is an AI-native engineering environment where development productivity is amplified through AI-assisted coding tools. Success in this role requires strong technical ownership, sound engineering judgment, and comfort working across existing production systems.

What You’ll Do

- Build, modify, and maintain multi-step lead-capture flows and web experiences

- Develop backend functionality using PHP and MySQL

- Integrate and troubleshoot third-party APIs

- Create and maintain logging, reporting, and analytics solutions

- Improve conversion performance through iteration and optimization

- Write maintainable, reusable, and production-safe code

- Work within existing systems and improve legacy implementations where needed

- Collaborate asynchronously with the engineering team and communicate progress clearly

Required Qualifications

- 5+ years of full-time professional PHP development experience working on a team

- Hands-on experience using AI coding tools in production environments

(Claude Code preferred; experience with Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, or similar AI-assisted development tools accepted)

- Intermediate to Advanced MySQL experience including:

- Schema design

- Query writing and optimization

- Safely updating production data

- Intermediate to Advanced JavaScript skills:

- Strong vanilla JavaScript

- DOM manipulation

- Events

- Fetch / async operations

- JSON handling

- Intermediate to Advanced CSS skills:

- Responsive and mobile-first development

- Cross-browser compatibility

- CSS custom properties

- Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows

- Strong written and verbal English communication

- Ability to independently solve problems and work with minimal supervision

- Comfortable maintaining and improving existing or legacy codebases

Nice to Have

- Go (Golang)

- Python

- AWS experience (EC2, Lightsail, Apache configuration, deployments)

- PostgreSQL

- Linux / Shell experience (SSH, deployments, cron, command line)

- Experience with:

- Multi-step form flows

- Lead generation

- Performance marketing

- Conversion funnel analytics

- Experience integrating and debugging REST APIs

What Success Looks Like

- Independently ships production-ready flow updates

- Uses AI coding tools effectively while maintaining code quality

- Builds reliable logging and reporting solutions

- Delivers clean API integrations with proper error handling

- Communicates proactively and requires minimal oversight

Work Arrangement

- Employment Type: Full-Time

- Location: Remote

- Schedule: Full-Time with required overlap with US business hours

- Time Zone Requirement: Pacific Time overlap required