Senior Backend Engineer: PHP/Django/Swift, Ownership

Filetwigbay; Springfield (MO); On-site; USD 96,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor program

Generous benefits

Ownership opportunity

Job summary

NBCUniversal is seeking a Backend Developer in Springfield, MO who lives for PHP excellence and reliable, scalable systems. You will own key features, participate in on-call rotations, and mentor peers as you contribute to a high-trust engineering culture.

Expect a salary range of $96,000 to $127,000 with growth opportunities, generous benefits, and hands-on ownership early in the process.

Qualifications

• Proven backend development skills with PHP.
• Strong JavaScript capabilities and leadership presence.
• Experience with data pipelines, concurrency, and scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Untangle Attention Management dependency knots slowing Springfield releases.
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Django.
• Stress-test Swift systems and harden where needed.
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in postmortems.
• Mentor senior staff through on-call public speaking moments.
• Develop PHP features to win back NBCUniversal MO accounts.
• Ship change management features aligning with tech roadmap.
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems using Python.

Skills

PHP

JavaScript

Python

Django

Swift

Terraform

Job description

NBCUniversal is seeking a Backend Developer in Springfield, MO who lives for PHP excellence and reliable, scalable systems. You will own key features, participate in on-call rotations, and mentor peers as you contribute to a high-trust engineering culture.

Expect a salary range of $96,000 to $127,000 with growth opportunities, generous benefits, and hands-on ownership early in the process.