Senior PHP Engineer for Scalable API Systems

Kforce Inc; West Palm Beach (FL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

HSA/FSA and 401(k)

Paid time off and life/disability

Job summary

Kforce is seeking a Software Engineer PHP in West Palm Beach, FL to design, develop, and maintain high-performance PHP applications handling millions of API requests daily. You will optimize MySQL schemas, implement RESTful APIs with OpenAPI specs, and build asynchronous workflows with queues in a distributed environment.

You will work across distributed teams, participate in architecture discussions, and ensure code quality with unit and integration tests.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience with PHP 8+ and frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, or Slim.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs using modern standards.
• Experience with Redis caching, queues, and performance optimizations.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Expertise in MySQL including query optimization and schema design for high-traffic apps.
• Familiarity with message queues and asynchronous processing (RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, Redis Streams).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance PHP applications handling millions of API requests daily.
• Design and optimize MySQL schemas, queries, and indexing for performance and reliability.
• Implement and maintain RESTful APIs with OpenAPI specifications and versioning.
• Design asynchronous workflows, background jobs, queues, and event-driven integrations.
• Participate in architecture discussions, incident response, and root-cause analysis for production issues.
• Contribute to code reviews and engineering best practices.
• Write clean, well-tested code with comprehensive unit and integration tests.

Skills

PHP 8+

Laravel

Symfony

Slim

RESTful APIs

MySQL

Redis

OpenAPI

AWS

GCP

Azure

RabbitMQ

Kafka

SQS

Redis Streams

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Git workflows

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Redis

RabbitMQ

Kafka

SQS

OpenAPI

Job description

Kforce is seeking a Software Engineer PHP in West Palm Beach, FL to design, develop, and maintain high-performance PHP applications handling millions of API requests daily. You will optimize MySQL schemas, implement RESTful APIs with OpenAPI specs, and build asynchronous workflows with queues in a distributed environment.

You will work across distributed teams, participate in architecture discussions, and ensure code quality with unit and integration tests.