Impact Scale is seeking to hire a Senior PHP Developer to join our team to enhance, maintain, and scale our flagship communications platform — a mission-critical system that delivers reliable, high-speed communication at scale.
Our company offers : benefits, positive company culture, catered lunches, competitive salaries, remote flexibility, and career growth through impactful projects in a collaborative culture.
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 / Symfony 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.
Qualifications / Skills :
5+ years of PHP development experience, preferably in Laravel or Symfony.3+ years in SQL, query optimization, and data modeling.Experience in a similar high load project or platformAdvanced understanding of OOP, MVC architecture, RESTful API development, Ribbit MQ.Basic knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, CSS (Vue.js or React a plus).Git, Jira, Docker familiarity preferred.Hours, Location and Benefits :
Full time 40 hours per weekHybrid office and work from home hoursA generous benefits package, including comprehensive health insurance, retirement savings, and paid time off.401k BenefitsFlexible work from home options available.