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