Remote PHP Web Developer – MySQL & APIs

Aretum; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental &amp

Retirement Plan (401k)

Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&

Paid Time Off

Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)

Short Term & Long-Term Disability

Training & Development

Job summary

Aretum is seeking a skilled web developer to maintain and update client websites and applications. The ideal candidate has extensive experience building database-driven web apps with PHP/MySQL in Linux, with HTML/CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, SQL, shell scripting, and PHP.

Proficiency with Linux shell, Docker, and CI/CD tools is required. Responsibilities include database management, security patching, monitoring, container work, and automation using Jenkins, GitLab runners, and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 3 years of development experience with OOP.
• 2 years of experience with PHP or Python programming.
• 2 years of experience managing relational DBMSs such as MySQL/MariaDB/POSTGREL/Oracle.
• Experience with modern web application architecture (frontend, backend, APIs).
• Expertise in creating cross-browser-compatible HTML web pages using modern techniques and technologies.
• Experience with PHP frameworks (CodeIgniter, Laravel, Zend, or similar).
• Expertise in troubleshooting and debugging issues across various applications and tech stacks.
• Experience with containers (Docker) and automation using tools like Jenkins, GitLab runners, and CI/CD.
• Experience with IT security best practices for web development, such as preventing SQL Injection remediation and Cross-Site Scripting.
• Proficiency with Smarty template engine or similar.
• Familiarity with modern JS frameworks (jQuery, AngularJS, ReactJS, etc.).
• Familiarity with libraries such as Bootstrap, Material Design.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, GitLab.
• Understanding of W3C standards and UI/UX design.

Responsibilities

• Support a portfolio of 25+ PHP websites and several database-driven web applications, mainly MySQL, and possibly Oracle and Postgres databases.
• Maintain, enhance, and rewrite existing code.
• Write clean, modular, and efficient server-side PHP code to power application features, business logic, and dynamic web pages.
• Design, create, upgrade, and manage relational databases (such as MySQL or PostgreSQL), write optimized SQL queries, and maintain data integrity and schemas; ensure passwords are updated and secure.
• Design, develop, and consume RESTful APIs, work with modern PHP frameworks (such as Laravel, Symfony, or Yii), and integrate third-party web services.
• Connect server-side logic with client-side elements by writing or integrating HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
• Deploy sites and applications to web servers (like Apache or NGINX), manage version control via Git, and provide ongoing updates, bug fixes, and legacy code refactoring.
• Assist with automating CI/CD pipelines leveraging tools like Jenkins/Ansible/Terraform/Docker.
• Debug existing code, perform unit and integration testing, and resolve application or performance bottlenecks.
• Handle user authentication, authorization, data validation, and protect applications against common web vulnerabilities (like SQL injection, XSS, and CSRF), ensure IT security compliance, and remediate security scans.
• Implement and enhance monitoring of web applications using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Support, maintain, and enhance the current Solr Search platform.
• Assist the team in improving and maintaining server content management and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications.

Skills

PHP

MySQL

Laravel

Symfony

REST APIs

Git

CI/CD

Docker

Linux

Web security

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab Runners

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Job description

Aretum is seeking a skilled web developer to maintain and update client websites and applications. The ideal candidate has extensive experience building database-driven web apps with PHP/MySQL in Linux, with HTML/CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, SQL, shell scripting, and PHP.

Proficiency with Linux shell, Docker, and CI/CD tools is required. Responsibilities include database management, security patching, monitoring, container work, and automation using Jenkins, GitLab runners, and CI/CD pipelines.