Software Engineer (PHP)

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Salary: $40 - $60 per hour

A bit about us:

A national restaurant company building

Why join us?

Work on high-impact backend systems at scale.

Job Details

Senior Backend Application Developer (Loyalty & CRM Platforms)

We are seeking a senior-level application developer with a strong database background (MySQL preferred) to join a team responsible for building and supporting large-scale digital guest and loyalty platforms for a national consumer brand. This team develops and maintains the systems that power online ordering, customer engagement, and rewards experiences across multiple high-traffic digital channels.

This role supports a cloud-hosted platform composed of web services, APIs, batch processes, serverless functions, relational databases, and search infrastructure. While the platform includes some UI components, the majority of the work is focused on backend development, service-layer code, and data systems.

This is an ideal role for an engineer who enjoys working deeply in backend services and relational databases and is comfortable supporting high-volume, enterprise production systems.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, batch jobs, and data workflows supporting a large-scale loyalty and CRM platform.

Write and optimize complex SQL queries and data transformations in MySQL.

Analyze production data to troubleshoot issues and support business operations.

Improve performance, scalability, and reliability of APIs and database interactions.

Support data archival, cleanup, and lifecycle management initiatives.

Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.

Collaborate with product, QA, and engineering teams to deliver new features.

Troubleshoot production issues and participate in an on-call rotation.

Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and participate in code reviews.

Stay current with relevant technologies and propose system improvements.

Note: This role involves minimal front-end work. The majority of development is focused on backend services and relational data systems.

Required Experience

7-10+ years of experience as an application or backend developer in an enterprise environment.

Strong backend experience building APIs, services, and batch processing systems.

Significant experience with relational databases (MySQL preferred), including:

Complex queries and joins

Query tuning and performance optimization

Experience analyzing and troubleshooting production data issues.

Experience working in LAMP or similar server-side environments.

Strong PHP experience preferred.

Candidates with comparable experience in Python, Perl, or similar backend languages will also be considered.

Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs.

Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred).

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git.

Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

Experience working in Agile development environments.

Preferred Qualifications

Roughly half of total experience working in PHP (Symfony or similar MVC frameworks preferred).

Experience supporting high-traffic production systems.

Experience with background jobs, schedulers, or event-driven architectures.

Experience working with CRM or loyalty platforms.

Experience with marketing automation platforms.

Familiarity with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch or New Relic.

Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (CloudFormation, Packer, Chef, etc.).

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