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