Senior PHP Backend Developer (AI-Assisted Development)

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