Backend Engineer — PHP / Symfony / AI-Native Development

Restaurant Supply is seeking to hire two backend engineers dedicated to the development and maintenance of their high-quality backend system, known as RS Brain. The role focuses on utilizing PHP and Symfony to enhance system architecture, performance, and reliability while leveraging modern AI coding tools.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable backend services utilizing PHP/Symfony
• Develop reliable APIs, workers, batch jobs, integrations, and internal tooling
• Enhance system performance, latency, throughput, and resource efficiency
• Make informed architectural decisions regarding data flow, background processing, queues, caching, and service boundaries
• Produce clean, maintainable, well-tested code
• Diagnose complex production issues across application code, databases, queues, logs, and external services
• Employ AI tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or similar to expedite development, testing, debugging, and refactoring
• Critically review AI-generated code for correctness, performance, security, and maintainability
• Collaborate with QA and other engineers to deliver reliable systems
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Extensive experience with PHP
• Proficient in Symfony
• Strong knowledge and skills in database management
• Experience with CI/CD (GitHub, GitHub Actions, Multiple Environments Management, Git)
• Solid understanding of software architecture and system design
• Experience in building low-latency, efficient backend systems
• Strong grasp of databases, query optimization, caching, queues, and background processing
• Experience with API design and third-party integrations
• Robust debugging and performance profiling skills
• Experience with automated testing
• Proficient in utilizing AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or similar
• Exhibit high ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to work independently
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Doctrine, Redis, or similar technologies
• Experience with Linux/server operations
• Experience with distributed systems or high-volume data processing
• Background in E-commerce, ERP, CRM, or data synchronization