Senior PHP Developer

You will be helping to build and inspire an awesome dev team working on innovative and large scale Laravel and WordPress installations. We are looking for a backend developer that is already actively working in PHP on a day-to-day basis. We want you to be as excited and as passionate as we are about what we are creating with PHP.

What You’ll Do:

– Collaborate with the project strategist to articulate the best technological solution for the problem at hand

– Analyze user story acceptance criteria to ensure technical feasibility and point out potential issues

– Lead a team of developers to make sure we can deliver on time, on budget and on scope

– Architect and develop new features, custom functionality and frontend integration

– Write high quality code with readability, efficiency and maintainability in mind

– Develop and maintain complex Laravel and WordPress based applications

– Implement complex features using modern PHP code and patterns while following standards

– Implement unit testing for key portions of each application

– Code review the work of other developers

– Improve our internal tools, libraries and standards

– Actively participate in our scrum meetings

– Work with the team to diagnose and resolve backend bugs and support requests

– Mentor junior developers

What You Bring:

– Agency experience – ability to thrive in a fast-paced, client-facing environment with billable project work is almost essential for success in this role.

– 5+ years of experience as a backend PHP developer on production sites.

– 2+ years of experience leading technical direction, mentoring developers, and guiding team practices.

– Extensive hands-on experience implementing complex WordPress websites and Laravel applications.

– Strong command of modern PHP practices, such as autoloading, dependency management, dependency injection, templating libraries, automated testing, and OOP (including frameworks like Symfony or Laravel).

– Solid understanding of secure, performant coding practices and a comprehensive knowledge of MySQL.

– Experience with at least one automated testing framework.

– Excellent understanding of the software development life cycle and best practices.

– Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

– Proven ability to work effectively in a distributed/remote team environment with minimal supervision.

– Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

– Highly organized, detail-oriented, and self-motivated with a methodical approach to problem-solving.

Preferred Qualifications:

– Experience with continuous integration and automated deployment pipelines

– Experience with JS application frameworks

– Experience with server technologies like Redis or ElasticSearch

– Experience with Python

– Remote work experience

We Offer:

– Excellent Benefits options – Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription

– Traditional and Roth 401k with company matching

– A collaborative team culture

– Consistent/set work hours

– Challenging non-redundant daily duties

– A voice in how things get done

– Access to ongoing training