Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - PHP

Role Overview

Join the fully remote Engineering team at Feedonomics (Commerce) as a Senior Software Engineer (Backend). You’ll build and scale 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-related problems, including post-release support for scalable applications.
• Improve DevOps practices and tooling by leveraging automation to enhance CI/CD robustness and streamline deployment.
• Drive technical design by presenting architecture solution options to product owners and engineering leadership.
• Conduct post-mortems to analyze failures and prevent repeats.
• Champion continuous improvement across infrastructure and systems.
• Evaluate and recommend tools/technologies/processes that solve concrete business problems.
• Become a domain expert by following industry trends and applying best practices.

Who You Are

• 5+ years backend programming experience.
• 2+ years with PHP (strongly preferred); also acceptable: Python, Go, Java, or similar.
• 2+ years with MySQL (or similar).
• Strong knowledge of database schema design, caching, and scalability.
• Strong understanding of communication protocols (e.g., TCP, RPC).
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Plus: caching tech like Redis or Memcached; DevOps experience.
• Strongly preferred: observability tools such as New Relic.
• Working knowledge of Linux.
• Experience with modern CI/CD and containerization (e.g., Docker).
• Ability to perform time and memory complexity analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Requirements / Eligibility

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
• BS or higher in Computer Science or related technical field.

Compensation

• Pay transparency range: $135,960 - $203,940 (final offer depends on location and qualifications).