[Remote] Staff PHP Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The client is an innovative HealthTech organisation building scalable, high-performance platforms in a complex, data-rich environment. They are seeking a Staff PHP Software Engineer to own key areas of the technology platform, focusing on PHP and Symfony backend development while contributing to architecture, databases, APIs, cloud infrastructure, frontend development, and technical mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop reliable web applications, backend services, and APIs using PHP and Symfony
- Take ownership of technical solutions from initial design through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing improvement
- Contribute to architectural decisions for scalable and distributed production systems
- Design and optimise relational databases, including schemas, queries, indexes, and data access patterns
- Develop frontend functionality using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and associated frameworks or templating technologies
- Improve application performance, security, resilience, and maintainability as the platform grows
- Work with Kubernetes and modern deployment processes to support reliable production releases
- Collaborate with product, data, AI, and engineering teams to turn complex requirements into practical technical solutions
- Maintain strong automated test coverage across application and service layers
- Review code, mentor engineers, and help improve development standards across the team
- Contribute to technical planning and the longer-term direction of key platform components
- Support recruitment and onboarding as the engineering organisation expands
Skills
- • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial commercial PHP development
- • Strong hands-on experience with Symfony or another modern enterprise PHP framework
- • Experience with Doctrine or comparable ORM technologies
- • Strong MySQL and/or PostgreSQL knowledge, including schema design, query optimisation, and performance tuning
- • Experience designing and developing production APIs and backend services
- • Strong understanding of scalable and distributed application architectures
- • Commercial experience with Kubernetes and containerised applications
- • Good frontend development skills across JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
- • Strong knowledge of unit, integration, and functional testing
- • Experience owning technically complex features or systems through to production
- • Previous experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical decision-making
- • Strong communication skills and experience working across multiple technical and business teams
- • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
- • Experience with React, Next.js, Stimulus, or another modern JavaScript framework
- • AWS, GCP, or comparable cloud platform experience
- • Previous work on high-volume or data-intensive enterprise applications
- • Experience within healthcare, financial services, or another regulated industry
- • Advanced API design and application performance optimisation experience
- • Experience helping modernise or scale established software platforms
Benefits
- Remote (US)
- Significant ownership of technically challenging production systems
- Work across backend engineering, architecture, cloud infrastructure, and frontend development
- Collaboration with experienced software, data, product, and AI specialists
- Opportunities to help shape the technical direction of a growing technology platform
- Strong opportunities for continued technical and career development
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