Senior PHP Software Engineer
About the position Join a high-impact, full-stack engineering team at TheGuarantors as a Senior Software Engineer. You’ll partner with engineering leaders, product managers, and stakeholders to design, build, and maintain scalable applications that support both internal operations and our customer experience. We foster a team culture grounded in ownership, autonomy, and technical excellence. Our engineers are empowered to shape their team’s technical direction and development processes.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team to build features end-to-end—across backend, frontend, and APIs
- Lead technical design discussions and help evaluate tradeoffs
- Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews
- Work closely with product and design to transform business needs into practical engineering solutions
- Come up with solutions for improvements on web-scraping methods
- Enable and build upon mission critical systems within our business
Requirements
- Exceptional interpersonal skills
- 3+ years of relevant production work experience in back-end web development, preferably using PHP
- 3+ years of relevant production work experience in front-end web development, preferably using React
- Experience with Web-scraping technologies
- A willingness to champion team needs and get involved with strategic decisions.
- Deep understanding of API concepts and designs
- Advanced understanding of SQL
- Familiarity with modern web infrastructure components (e.g. caching, serverless, API gateways, etc) and how to manage them.
- Understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms, and experience creating and evaluating technical design documents
Nice-to-haves
- Experience working with AWS
Benefits
- Opportunities to make an impact within a fast growing company
- Medical, dental, & vision insurance, beginning day one
- Health savings account with employer contribution
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Flexible working hours
- 401(k)
- Paid parental leave
- Company sponsored short and long term disability
- Flexible spending accounts (healthcare, dependent care, commuter)
- Competitive salary