Backend Data Engineer (PHP, APIs & ETL)
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Contract
3 hours ago
Key skills
PHPSQLETLLaravelSQL ServerRESTfulCI/CD
About this role
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of backend development experience with RESTful APIs and service-layer architectures
- Strong experience with PHP 8.x (ideally 8.4) and frameworks such as CodeIgniter 4, Laravel, or Symfony
- Strong SQL Server (2019/2022) experience including schema design, T-SQL, stored procedures, and performance tuning
- Hands-on experience building ETL pipelines, batch processing, and data transformation workflows
- Experience implementing data quality controls, validation logic, deduplication, and referential integrity
- Experience with synchronization, audit logging, and error handling in backend/data workflows
- Strong understanding of structured data, metadata, and extensible data models
- Experience writing unit tests with PHPUnit and integrating with CI/CD pipelines
- Strong documentation and handoff capabilities