Senior PHP Backend Developer – Remote Options & Growth

Retail Innovation Inc; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Flexible remote options

Job summary

Retail Innovation Inc. is seeking a PHP Developer to join our engineering team in Raleigh, NC. The role focuses on delivering Express.js features, optimizing cloud-based metrics, and ensuring scalable performance for traffic across NC and beyond.

You will handle on-call rotations, tune databases, and work to reduce startup and latency issues, with autonomy and mentorship. A strong growth runway and remote-flexible options accompany a competitive salary range.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in technology roles with track record delivering complex software systems.
• Strong PHP development experience across full-stack projects.
• Experience collaborating with product and design teams to ship customer-focused features.
• Familiarity with cloud-based deployments and modern CI/CD practices.
• Ability to translate metrics into actionable improvements and decisions.
• Solid understanding of technology best practices and industry standards.

Responsibilities

• Ship customer-obsessed Express.js features that move the technology roadmap forward.
• Translate Google Cloud metrics into a single dashboard used by leadership.
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads.
• Reduce Go cold-start times to improve wake-up times for NC users.
• Identify and fix latency spikes and performance bottlenecks.

Skills

Stakeholder alignment

Strong communication

Prioritization

Decision making

Critical thinking

Industry best practices

Technology leadership

Tools

Express.js

Elasticsearch

Google Cloud

Job description

Retail Innovation Inc. is seeking a PHP Developer to join our engineering team in Raleigh, NC. The role focuses on delivering Express.js features, optimizing cloud-based metrics, and ensuring scalable performance for traffic across NC and beyond.

You will handle on-call rotations, tune databases, and work to reduce startup and latency issues, with autonomy and mentorship. A strong growth runway and remote-flexible options accompany a competitive salary range.