Remote PHP Code Reviewer & QA Engineer (Contractor)

AuraOne, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 69,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

AuraOne, Inc. is seeking a remote PHP Developer reviewer to assess PHP code, reproduce outputs, and write minimal failing tests. You will grade solutions for correctness, style, and edge-case handling, and document recurring failures for targeted improvements.

The role emphasizes clear senior-level reasoning, with at least 10 hours per week of async availability and experience in code-review or technical-interview grading. Remote contractor arrangement in the US.

Qualifications

• Strong day-job PHP experience — you can read, run, and debug unfamiliar code for PHP Developer work.
• Comfort writing concise unit tests that capture a single failure mode.
• Familiarity with a testing framework: pytest, Jest, or JUnit; Go test or RSpec.
• Clear written reasoning — your review note has to convince another senior engineer.
• Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week.
• Prior code-review or technical-interview-grading experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Run and reproduce PHP code outputs in a sandboxed environment for PHP Developer assignments.
• Grade PHP engineering solutions for correctness, style, and edge-case handling.
• Write minimal failing tests that demonstrate the bug a model output missed.
• Compare paired solutions and rank them with a written rationale tied to the rubric.
• Tag failure modes (compile error, runtime crash, off-by-one, security issue) with severity scores.
• Document recurring code-generation failures so the modeling team can target them.
• Calibrate against gold-standard reviews to keep inter-rater agreement above target.

Skills

Code review

Debugging

Unit testing

Engineering judgment

PHP engineering

PHP

Web development

Tools

pytest

Jest

JUnit

Go test

RSpec

Job description

AuraOne, Inc. is seeking a remote PHP Developer reviewer to assess PHP code, reproduce outputs, and write minimal failing tests. You will grade solutions for correctness, style, and edge-case handling, and document recurring failures for targeted improvements.

The role emphasizes clear senior-level reasoning, with at least 10 hours per week of async availability and experience in code-review or technical-interview grading. Remote contractor arrangement in the US.