Senior Software Engineer, PHP

Role Overview

• Build, maintain, and ship high-quality product features in a multidisciplinary Agile team.
• Design and evolve backend systems that support large-scale, highly configurable community applications.
• Work across core application layers, APIs, integrations, and platform capabilities to deliver reliable end-to-end solutions.
• Write reliable, well-tested code; participate in code review; mentor teammates through thoughtful feedback and shared patterns.
• Triage, debug, and resolve production issues efficiently; collaborate closely with product, QA, support, and other engineers to close the loop quickly.
• Contribute to application performance, scalability, resilience, and maintainability across a large and evolving codebase.
• Help shape technical direction by improving architecture, coding standards, tooling, documentation, and team development practices.
• Participate in guild or cross-team engineering discussions to strengthen backend practices and promote sustainable patterns across the organization.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of Agile values and principles.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented design, modular architecture, and maintainable coding practices.
• Experience building and supporting production applications at scale, with attention to performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Experience designing and working with APIs and service boundaries in complex systems.
• Ability to debug effectively, reason through production issues, and make sound tradeoffs in a large application environment.
• Awareness of security best practices and experience identifying or addressing vulnerabilities in web applications.
• Comfort working in containerized or modern local development environments and with contemporary engineering workflows.
• Comfort with Git-based workflows, pull requests, and collaborative code review.
• Practical experience using AI coding tools (Cursor or equivalent) in day-to-day development, including validating generated code and avoiding insecure or low-quality patterns.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience building and maintaining production web applications.
• Experience working in a large, mature application or platform with significant business logic, legacy considerations, and evolving architecture.
• Experience with extensible or modular systems such as themes, plugins, integrations, or configurable platform features.
• Experience working with asynchronous processing, background jobs, queues, or event-driven patterns.
• Familiarity with database-backed applications and the performance considerations that come with them.
• Experience with testing practices and tools that build confidence through automation.
• Strong product instincts: you communicate tradeoffs well, care about user outcomes, and understand how technical decisions affect the customer experience.
• Experience contributing to technical mentoring, architectural improvements, or shared engineering standards.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Comprehensive health benefits package.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Healthcare and dependent-care flexible spending account.
• Company short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Company culture that recognizes its employees.
• Room for growth and development and management that cares about your professional growth and will help you achieve your goals.
• Significant advancement opportunities for outstanding performers.