Work Arrangement

Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Remote
Schedule: Full-Time with required overlap with US business hours
Time Zone Requirement: Pacific Time overlap required

About the Role

Our Client is looking for a Senior PHP Backend Developer to join our Engineering team full-time and take ownership of our lead-capture ecosystem.

You’ll build, improve, and maintain interactive multi-step form funnels that capture and route consumer leads, integrate with third-party APIs, and support analytics that drive conversion and revenue performance.

This is an AI-native engineering environment where development productivity is amplified through AI-assisted coding tools. Success in this role requires strong technical ownership, sound engineering judgment, and comfort working across existing production systems.

What You’ll Do

Build, modify, and maintain multi-step lead-capture flows and web experiences
Develop backend functionality using PHP and MySQL
Integrate and troubleshoot third-party APIs
Create and maintain logging, reporting, and analytics solutions
Improve conversion performance through iteration and optimization
Write maintainable, reusable, and production-safe code
Work within existing systems and improve legacy implementations where needed
Collaborate asynchronously with the engineering team and communicate progress clearly

Required Qualifications

5+ years of full-time professional PHP development experience working on a team
Hands-on experience using AI coding tools in production environments
(Claude Code preferred; experience with Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, or similar AI-assisted development tools accepted)
Intermediate to Advanced MySQL experience including:
- Schema design
- Query writing and optimization
- Safely updating production data
Intermediate to Advanced JavaScript skills:
- Strong vanilla JavaScript
- DOM manipulation
- Events
- Fetch / async operations
- JSON handling
Intermediate to Advanced CSS skills:
- Responsive and mobile-first development
- Cross-browser compatibility
- CSS custom properties
Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows
Strong written and verbal English communication
Ability to independently solve problems and work with minimal supervision
Comfortable maintaining and improving existing or legacy codebases

Nice to Have

Go (Golang)
Python
AWS experience (EC2, Lightsail, Apache configuration, deployments)
PostgreSQL
Linux / Shell experience (SSH, deployments, cron, command line)
Experience with:
- Multi-step form flows
- Lead generation
- Performance marketing
- Conversion funnel analytics
Experience integrating and debugging REST APIs

What Success Looks Like

Independently ships production-ready flow updates
Uses AI coding tools effectively while maintaining code quality
Builds reliable logging and reporting solutions
Delivers clean API integrations with proper error handling
Communicates proactively and requires minimal oversight

Work Arrangement

Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Remote
Schedule: Full-Time with required overlap with US business hours
Time Zone Requirement: Pacific Time overlap required

Originally posted on Himalayas

Senior PHP Backend Developer (AI-Assisted Development) at SnappyCX