Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - PHP

Role Overview

Join the fully remote Engineering team at Feedonomics as a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) – PHP. You’ll work on core infrastructure components and services that power a robust, high-performance, data-intensive SaaS platform.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate on the architecture, design, and development of scalable and highly available applications and services.
• Solve complex infrastructure problems; provide post-release support for scalable applications.
• Improve DevOps practices and tooling, using automation to enhance CI/CD robustness and streamline deployments.
• Lead technical design by articulating architecture solution options to product owners and Engineering leadership.
• Run post-mortems to analyze failures and prevent repeats.
• Champion continuous improvement across end-to-end infrastructure and systems.
• Evaluate and recommend tools/technologies/processes to solve concrete business problems.
• Become a domain expert by staying current with industry trends and applying best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend programming experience.
• 2+ years with PHP (strongly preferred).
• 2+ years with MySQL (or similar).
• Strong understanding of database schema design, caching, and scalability.
• Strong understanding of communication protocols (TCP, RPC, etc.).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems.
• Experience with Linux.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. and have a BS or higher in Computer Science or related field.

Nice to Have

• Caching technologies (e.g., Redis or Memcached).
• DevOps experience.
• Observability tools such as New Relic.
• Experience with modern CI/CD and containerization (e.g., Docker).
• Ability to perform time and memory complexity analysis.