Senior PHP Engineer — Remote, High-Impact Backend

Uniting Holding; Vancouver (WA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote/work from home options

Catered lunches

Career growth opportunities

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Impact Scale is seeking a Senior PHP Developer to enhance, maintain, and scale our flagship communications platform. The role focuses on fast, reliable backend execution and scalable data handling within a high‑traffic environment.

You will work with product managers, DevOps, and QA to ship features, optimize systems, and mentor junior developers. Remote flexibility and growth opportunities are offered in a collaborative culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of PHP development experience, preferably in Laravel.
• 3+ years in SQL, query optimization, and data modeling.
• Experience in a high‑load project or platform.
• Advanced understanding of OOP, MVC architecture, RESTful API development, Ribbit MQ.
• Familiarity with Git, Jira, Docker.
• Fluency in Ukrainian or Russian.

Responsibilities

• Work with the existing team to understand project requirements and plug into our workflow.
• Collaborate with product managers, DevOps, and QA to roll out new features and improve system stability.
• Build and improve backend features in PHP (Laravel preferred).
• Optimize message delivery pipelines, database queries, and API calls for speed and reliability.
• Maintain integrations with carrier APIs, third‑party services, and internal microservices.
• Design and optimize MySQL schemas for large datasets with high transaction rates.
• Improve caching, queuing, and load‑balancing strategies to handle millions of daily requests.
• Write clean, testable code with strong error handling and fault‑tolerant design.
• Provide guidance to junior developers and participate in peer code reviews.

Skills

PHP development

SQL optimization

High‑load systems

OOP & MVC

APIs & REST

Git & Jira

Docker

Russian/Ukrainian

Tools

Git

Jira

Docker

Job description

Impact Scale is seeking a Senior PHP Developer to enhance, maintain, and scale our flagship communications platform. The role focuses on fast, reliable backend execution and scalable data handling within a high‑traffic environment.

You will work with product managers, DevOps, and QA to ship features, optimize systems, and mentor junior developers. Remote flexibility and growth opportunities are offered in a collaborative culture.