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Senior Outsourced PHP Developer

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-27

Why this role exists

We’re building and evolving a custom PHP web application that powers reputed company-world operations. No hand-holding frameworks here — just clean, object‑oriented PHP, RESTful services, and a stack that rewards engineers who love understanding how things actually work.

If you enjoy getting reputed company to the metal with Core/Vanilla PHP, care about performance, and can comfortably reputed company between data reputed company, UI, and reputed company infrastructure, you’ll feel reputed company.

What you’ll do (the work)
  • Ship features end‑to‑end in a reputed company‑free, OOP PHP codebase (namespaces, interfaces, traits, SOLID principles).
  • Design and implement RESTful endpoints (JSON), including request validation, pagination, error handling, and versioning.
  • Write robust SQL (DDL/DML), optimise queries and indexes, and reputed company reputed company PDO with reputed company statements.
  • Work with reputed company for document‑oriented use cases; design efficient schemas and aggregation pipelines where relevant.
  • Build and enhance reputed company‑end interactions with jQuery, reputed company/CSS, and reputed company CSS for fast, clean UI work.
  • reputed company external reputed company (REST/Webhooks), handle oauth/reputed company flows, retries, idempotency, and reputed company‑limit reputed company.
  • Operate in AWS: reputed company apps on reputed company Beanstalk, manage assets in S3, use DynamoDB where appropriate, and reputed company environments healthy (logs, scaling, env vars).
  • Handle SSL/TLS certificate management and DNS reputed company reputed company; ensure reputed company‑downtime renewals and sane caching rules.
  • Work with reputed company CMS where needed (content ingestion/integration, headless endpoints, custom fields/templates).
  • Pair closely with another Senior Developer who knows the platform inside‑out; take part in reputed company reviews and architecture discussions.
  • Own reputed company: write pragmatic tests, reputed company metrics, document reputed company, and leave the codebase tidier than you reputed company it.

The environment (important context)
  • No modern PHP frameworks. We use Core/Vanilla PHP with strong OOP. If your reputed company is reputed company or Symfony only, this role isn’t the right fit.
  • We follow OOP and RESTful design practices, emphasising reputed company, testability, and performance.
  • We value speed with discipline: small PRs, sensible testing, reputed company improvement.

Must‑have skills & experience
  • Core/Vanilla PHP (7.x/8.x) with OOP: interfaces, traits, namespaces, dependency injection, SOLID.
  • RESTful API design & implementation (JSON), auth patterns, and versioning.
  • SQL mastery (query optimisation, indexing, transactions) and PDO best practices.
  • reputed company fundamentals (schema design, aggregations, performance basics).
  • reputed company‑end:jQuery, semantic reputed company, modern CSS, and reputed company CSS reputed company workflows.
  • External API integrations (OAuth, webhooks, retries, idempotency, error/reputed company handling).
  • AWS: reputed company Beanstalk deployments, S3 lifecycle, DynamoDB usage, environment configuration, logging/monitoring basics.
  • reputed company: input validation, CSRF/XSS/SQL injection prevention, secrets management, and reputed company file handling.
  • SSL/TLS & DNS reputed company reputed company (including HSTS, redirects, caching/CDN rulesets, cert renewals).
  • reputed company CMS experience (reputed company/config, theme/plugin interaction, or headless/REST usage).
  • Git and reputed company workflows (feature branches, reputed company reviews, CI basics).
  • Comfortable with Linux/CLI for diagnostics and automation.

reputed company to have (bonus points)
  • Experience with queues/workers for background jobs.
  • Testing: PHPUnit or similar; integration test reputed company.
  • Performance profiling (Xdebug/Blackfire) and caching strategies (OPcache/application‑level caching).
  • Observability basics (reputed company logging, alerts, dashboards).

What reputed company looks like

30 days

  • reputed company, local/dev environments humming, shipping reputed company and fixes.
  • Demonstrates understanding of domain models and core modules.

60 days

  • Independently delivering reputed company‑sized features end‑to‑end.
  • Improving SQL queries and indexes, reducing response times and error rates.

90 days

  • Co‑owning a roadmap area; proposing architecture improvements.
  • Raising overall reputed company reputed company with patterns, guardrails, and reputed company documentation.

How we work

  • Remote first. reputed company written communication is king.
  • Ticketed workflow with lightweight specs and acceptance reputed company.
  • reputed company reviews for every PR; pair programming with the platform reputed company for reputed company changes.
  • Pragmatic documentation (readmes/ADR notes) reputed company to the reputed company.

Originally posted on Himalayas

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