Senior PHP Software Engineer

TheGuarantors•New York, NY

17h•$140,000 - $160,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Join a high-impact, full-stack engineering team at TheGuarantors as a Senior Software Engineer. You’ll partner with engineering leaders, product managers, and stakeholders to design, build, and maintain scalable applications that support both internal operations and our customer experience. We foster a team culture grounded in ownership, autonomy, and technical excellence. Our engineers are empowered to shape their team’s technical direction and development processes.

Requirements

Exceptional interpersonal skills
3+ years of relevant production work experience in back-end web development, preferably using PHP
3+ years of relevant production work experience in front-end web development, preferably using React
Experience with Web-scraping technologies
A willingness to champion team needs and get involved with strategic decisions.
Deep understanding of API concepts and designs
Advanced understanding of SQL
Familiarity with modern web infrastructure components (e.g. caching, serverless, API gateways, etc) and how to manage them.
Understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms, and experience creating and evaluating technical design documents

Nice To Haves

Experience working with AWS

Responsibilities

Collaborate with a cross-functional team to build features end-to-end—across backend, frontend, and APIs
Lead technical design discussions and help evaluate tradeoffs
Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews
Work closely with product and design to transform business needs into practical engineering solutions
Come up with solutions for improvements on web-scraping methods
Enable and build upon mission critical systems within our business