Senior PHP Developer - Architecture
$85,000–$90,000 year
RemoteUnited States or Canada
Job Summary
Design scalable microservices and RESTful APIs for a member-driven platform serving B2B, eCommerce, and gaming clients. Lead system architecture decisions, optimize MySQL performance, and architect cloud infrastructure on AWS to ensure high availability and fault tolerance. Develop, debug, and maintain backend applications while mentoring junior developers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical goals with business objectives. Manage distributed environments, implement security protocols, and drive the evolution of the platform through continuous refactoring and strategic technology adoption.
Required Qualifications
- Strong knowledge of the PHP language
- Experience with frameworks like Laravel, Symfony, or similar
- Experience implementing and using RESTful APIs in a microservice architecture
- Usable understanding of front-end technologies
- Understanding of the concepts of object-oriented programming
- Familiarity with optimizing interactions with backend storage, such as MySQL
- Experience developing in a largely distributed environment
- Eager to make an impact on the organization
- Strong focus on system architecture
- Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
- Expert Level Skills: PHP (7+ years)
- Expert Level Skills: MySQL (4+ years)
- Expert Level Skills: OOP Concepts (3+ years)
- Intermediate Level Skills: Linux-based systems administration
- Intermediate Level Skills: Knowledge of open-source solutions like AWS
- Intermediate Level Skills: Proficient understanding when committing code to Git, Branching, and Merging code
- Intermediate Level Skills: Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Intermediate Level Skills: Payment Gateway Integration
- Must be confortable working with all end client groups (B2B, eCommerce, Online Dating, Online Adult Content, Online Gaming)
- Location: Remote, Toronto, Canada
- Employment Type: Permanent, Fulltime
Desired Qualifications
- Large volume email dispatching
- React
- Javascript
- HTML5
- CSS3
- RabbitMQ
- Elasticsearch
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