Back End Software Engineer, Data Ingestion

RevolutionParts

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About The Position

RevolutionParts is growing rapidly, and the reliability and quality of our core data—catalog, pricing, and inventory—is paramount to our success. This data flows through our established, high-volume ETL pipeline, which is the heart of our platform. RevolutionParts is looking for a Back End Software Engineer with a deep interest in data systems to join our Ingestion Team. Our platform's success relies on the accuracy and speed of our catalog, pricing, and inventory data. This data is processed through a mission-critical, custom-built PHP batch processing system. We aren't looking for a traditional Data Engineer who only wants to work in Spark or Airflow. We need a Systems-minded Software Engineer who enjoys diving into PHP codebases, optimizing MySQL queries, and ensuring that our background workers are robust, scalable, and reliable. You will be the guardian of our "source of truth," ensuring that millions of records are ingested accurately every day. As a Software Engineer - Data Ingestion, you will: Own the Codebase: Take technical ownership of our custom PHP ingestion framework, improving its maintainability and performance. Engineer for Reliability: Implement robust error handling, circuit breakers, and validation logic within our PHP workers to prevent data corruption or pipeline stalls. Optimize the Data Tier: Act as the lead on MySQL/Postgres performance for the ingestion team—optimizing indexes, refactoring slow inserts, and managing schema migrations. Bridge the Gap: Work closely with application developers to ensure the data we ingest is structured perfectly for the end-user experience. Modernize Incrementally: Identify patterns in our custom PHP system that can be abstracted or improved, guiding the stack's evolution without disrupting the business.

Requirements

• 7+ years of Backend Software Engineering experience, with a strong focus on data-intensive applications.
• Expert-level PHP knowledge: You should be comfortable managing long-running scripts and understanding PHP’s CLI behavior.
• Advanced SQL & Database Internals: You don't just write queries; you understand execution plans, locking behavior, and index optimization in MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Systems Curiosity: A desire to understand how things work under the hood, rather than just plugging tools together.
• Background Processing: Experience with job queues, workers, and batch processing patterns.
• No "Modern Stack" Dependency: You are excited to build excellence within a PHP/Relational environment and don't require Python/Spark to be effective.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience with payments, eCommerce, Marketplaces, and complex Product Information Management modeling.
• Experience working in a cloud-based software development environment, preferably with AWS.
• Experience with modern data tooling (e.g., Python, DBT, Glue) is a bonus, but not a replacement for curiosity about and engagement with the current stack.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-volume data ingestion workers written in PHP.
• Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks in background processes (CPU, Memory, I/O).
• Collaborate with the BI team to ensure downstream data needs are met by the application's persistence layer.
• Write clean, testable code and advocate for standard software engineering practices (CI/CD, Unit Testing) within data-heavy workflows.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees