PHP Backend Engineer (Only W2 Profiles)
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This role is for a PHP Backend Engineer with a long-term contract, remote work location, and a pay rate of "TBD." Requires 5+ years in PHP8.x frameworks, relational databases, RESTful API design, AWS services, and ETL pipeline experience.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
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🗓️ - Date discovered
August 21, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location type
Remote
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📄 - Contract type
W2 Contractor
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🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
United States
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#GitLab #MariaDB #Code Reviews #MySQL #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Monitoring #Datadog #Apache Airflow #Lambda (AWS Lambda) #React #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Elasticsearch #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Observability #SQL Server #Redis #Terraform #Databases #API (Application Programming Interface) #Cloud #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #Deployment #PostgreSQL #Containers #Airflow #ML (Machine Learning) #Docker #Security #GIT #SQS (Simple Queue Service) #EC2 #AI (Artificial Intelligence) #RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) #OpenSearch #PHP
Role description
Job Title: PHP Backend Engineer
Location: Remote.
Duration: Longterm
Job Description
5+ years of professional server-side development, with significant experience in PHP8.x frameworks (Laravel, symfony)
5+ years of experience with relational databases (MySQL/MariaDB, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
Strong experience with the full software development lifecycle; planning, scoping, implementation, testing, code reviews, QA, deployment, monitoring
Deep understanding of RESTful API design principles and best practices
Experience with search technologies (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr)
Experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS, RDS, Lambda, S3, SQS)
Experience with observability, APM, and alerting tools (Sentry, Sumologic, Datadog, New Relic)
Experience with containerized applications and orchestration (Docker, Gitlab, Terraform)
Familiarity with caching solutions (Redis, SingleStore, Memcached)
Proficiency with modern development workflows using Git and CI/CD pipelines
Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines (Apache Airflow)
Knowledge of security best practices for web applications and data protection
Good to Have
Experience with Cloudflare's edge computing (Workers, Containers, CDN)
Experience with AI/ML integration in production systems
Familiarity with Laravel Octane and Swoole
Experience with JS (React) and front-end development
Job Title: PHP Backend Engineer
Location: Remote.
Duration: Longterm
Job Description
5+ years of professional server-side development, with significant experience in PHP8.x frameworks (Laravel, symfony)
5+ years of experience with relational databases (MySQL/MariaDB, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
Strong experience with the full software development lifecycle; planning, scoping, implementation, testing, code reviews, QA, deployment, monitoring
Deep understanding of RESTful API design principles and best practices
Experience with search technologies (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr)
Experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS, RDS, Lambda, S3, SQS)
Experience with observability, APM, and alerting tools (Sentry, Sumologic, Datadog, New Relic)
Experience with containerized applications and orchestration (Docker, Gitlab, Terraform)
Familiarity with caching solutions (Redis, SingleStore, Memcached)
Proficiency with modern development workflows using Git and CI/CD pipelines
Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines (Apache Airflow)
Knowledge of security best practices for web applications and data protection
Good to Have
Experience with Cloudflare's edge computing (Workers, Containers, CDN)
Experience with AI/ML integration in production systems
Familiarity with Laravel Octane and Swoole
Experience with JS (React) and front-end development
