Lead PHP Engineer, Global Web Platform (Hands-On)

Scion Technology Staffing; Calabasas (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Comprehensive benefits package

High-visibility ownership and autonomy

Job summary

Scion Staffing has been engaged to identify a Principal Staff Engineer (PHP / Web Platform) for a global leader in make-on-demand ecommerce. This is a hands-on, coding-first role with ~80% PHP development and ~20% AWS/production operations, focusing on a high-traffic web platform's reliability and scalability.

The ideal candidate has 5-7+ years of PHP experience, strong Laravel/Symfony skills, and proven ability to troubleshoot live production issues while collaborating with offshore teams.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of professional PHP development experience, with PHP keeping a significant focus in recent work.
• Strong hands-on experience with Laravel and/or Symfony frameworks.
• Hands-on experience supporting applications and servers in AWS.
• Experience troubleshooting live production issues and outages.
• Ability to work across application code and supporting infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain production applications using PHP, Laravel/Symfony, MySQL, Linux, and the LAMP stack.
• Build new features, review code, and contribute to technical design and architecture.
• Support and troubleshoot AWS-hosted production environments (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch).
• Investigate outages, performance degradation, server issues, and application errors.
• Monitor health and reliability, improving uptime for high-traffic platforms.
• Collaborate with offshore teams on development, reviews, releases, and problem-solving.
• Participate in deployments, root-cause analysis, and ongoing reliability improvements.

Skills

PHP development

Laravel/Symfony

Production issue troubleshooting

Performance optimization

MySQL database troubleshooting

Distributed/global teams

Tools

AWS

Job description

Scion Staffing has been engaged to identify a Principal Staff Engineer (PHP / Web Platform) for a global leader in make-on-demand ecommerce. This is a hands-on, coding-first role with ~80% PHP development and ~20% AWS/production operations, focusing on a high-traffic web platform's reliability and scalability.

The ideal candidate has 5-7+ years of PHP experience, strong Laravel/Symfony skills, and proven ability to troubleshoot live production issues while collaborating with offshore teams.