About the project

Remote-first with close collaboration across time zones and an emphasis on clean architecture, reliability, and performance.

High-traffic online marketplace headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Distributed engineering team of 15+ specialists; modernizing and scaling a large production system.

We’re seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (PHP) to own and evolve the project’s end-to-end architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve microservices and internal APIs for a large-scale marketplace.
• Refactor and modernize legacy PHP codebases with strong OOP and design principles.
• Apply DDD and TDD; maintain high test coverage with PHPUnit/Codeception.
• Profile and optimize server-side performance (queries, caches, queues).
• Work with search, queues, and data pipelines to improve relevance and throughput.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, DevOps, and data teams in a distributed setup.
• Ship to production using Docker/Kubernetes in AWS; own services end-to-end.

Requirements

Requirements Software architecture and practices

• Microservices architecture
• Strong OOP and design patterns
• Refactoring legacy code
• Server-side profiling and optimization
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

Programming languages

• PHP 7.x (strong OOP, design patterns, Composer optimization)
• Familiarity with PHP 5.x for legacy systems; PHP 8.x experience is a plus

Frameworks and libraries

• Symfony 2.4/3.3/4 and Laravel
• Doctrine 2
• PHPUnit, Codeception

Databases and caching

• MySQL 5/8 (Percona)
• Redis
• Memcache/Memcached
• MongoDB (any additional NoSQL experience is a must)

Search (Elasticsearch, Sphinx Search)

Queues and messaging (RabbitMQ 3.6, AWS SQS)

Infrastructure and cloud

• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes (must-have)
• AWS: S3, SNS, RDS, SQS, Route 53

Version control and web server (Git, NGINX)

Profiling tools (Xdebug)

What We Offer

• Flexible schedule and remote work.
• Work on a complex and interesting IT project.
• Room for professional growth.