PHP Backend Developer (AI-Assisted Development)
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 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
3+ 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
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