Senior Backend Engineer - PHP/Node.js Microservices, Remote

EasySoftGroup; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation days

Floating holidays

Wellness benefits

Insurance package

Equity options

WFH stipend

Job summary

EasySoftGroup seeks a Senior Backend Engineer with strong PHP expertise and solid Node.js experience to join the Enterprise API & Platform API Team. You’ll modernize a large PHP-based backend and help evolve a monolithic system into modular services, improving code quality, testing, performance, and reliability.

This remote-first, globally distributed team collaborates across Product, Platform, and Engineering.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
• Expert-level PHP experience on enterprise-grade production systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js.
• Experience refactoring or decomposing monolithic architectures into modular services.
• Strong knowledge of backend architecture and API design, including REST and GraphQL.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, particularly Lambda and serverless architectures.
• Experience writing testable and maintaining automated test suites.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude Code, or Cursor, with the ability to critically review and refine generated code.
• Strong written and spoken English.
• A proactive, self-directed approach and the ability to work independently, communicate clearly, and unblock yourself in a remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of an existing PHP monolithic codebase and progressively extract functionality into modular, service-oriented components.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, testable, and reusable backend services using PHP and Node.js.
• Design and maintain robust RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
• Lead and contribute to refactoring initiatives focused on performance, readability, maintainability, and scalability.
• Build, deploy, and operate backend services on AWS, including Lambda and API Gateway.
• Write and maintain unit and integration tests to ensure reliability across releases.
• Use AI coding tools effectively while critically reviewing, validating, and improving AI-generated code.
• Identify technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement across the platform.
• Clearly communicate technical decisions and trade-offs through documentation and short video walkthroughs.
• Collaborate effectively within a remote, async-first, cross-timezone environment.

Skills

PHP

Node.js

REST API design

GraphQL

AWS

Unit testing

AI tools

English

Remote collaboration

Tools

GitHub Copilot

ChatGPT

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

EasySoftGroup seeks a Senior Backend Engineer with strong PHP expertise and solid Node.js experience to join the Enterprise API & Platform API Team. You’ll modernize a large PHP-based backend and help evolve a monolithic system into modular services, improving code quality, testing, performance, and reliability.

This remote-first, globally distributed team collaborates across Product, Platform, and Engineering.