Senior Backend Engineer - PHP + Go, Kubernetes & APIs

Egreenservices; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor guidance available

Flexible hours

Job summary

Universal Studios in Arlington, VA is hiring a PHP Developer to own backend work with a $100,000–$144,000 invitation and a mid-level title. Your compensation opens at this range; mentorship is available and hours are flexible.

You will design, build, and maintain services using Go and Kubernetes, refactor legacy modules, and drive testing, security, and observability. Collaboration spans Rails, JavaScript, and Kotlin stacks to ensure robust delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend or related fields.
• Ability to drive testing, security, and observability practices.
• Portfolio or work samples demonstrating technology expertise.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability.
• Refactor the technology module Universal Studios is reluctant to touch.
• Negotiate Go tradeoffs with product when timelines clash.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Go and Kubernetes.
• Read Kotlin stack traces and trace bugs to root causes.
• Prototype proof-of-concept solutions for emerging tech requirements.
• Translate outages into fixes to stabilize Arlington launches.
• Lead the Kubernetes migration to retire legacy stack.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Ruby on Rails

JavaScript

Kotlin

Testing

Security

Observability

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Tools

RabbitMQ

Job description

Universal Studios in Arlington, VA is hiring a PHP Developer to own backend work with a $100,000–$144,000 invitation and a mid-level title. Your compensation opens at this range; mentorship is available and hours are flexible.

You will design, build, and maintain services using Go and Kubernetes, refactor legacy modules, and drive testing, security, and observability. Collaboration spans Rails, JavaScript, and Kotlin stacks to ensure robust delivery.