Senior Software Developer- PHP

Circle Graphics + Sensaria•Morrisville, NC

4d•$100,000 - $135,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Software Developer, you will work in our agile development environment and add new features, enhance current functionality, and fix bugs in our order management systems. Our systems and services are comprised of several different technologies, but this position will center around PHP/MySQL. This role will also interact with other organizations and teams within Sensaria / Circle Graphics and will have the opportunity to interface with other internal APIs and systems. This role is not eligible for work sponsorship at this time. This role will be based in our Morrisville, NC HQ location. (we are open to remote candidates in the Eastern & Central time zones)

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from a four-year College or University plus at least three years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
PHP (8.x)
An MVC framework such as Laminas/Zend, Laravel, or Symfony
Familiarity with test-driven development; Unit and Integration Testing using PHPUnit/Pest/Cypress/Playwright
Experience with software debuggers like XDebug
Experience using AWS SQS, Eventbridge, and other distributed work queue systems
Experience developing solutions in a cloud environment (AWS preferred), including ECS, Lambda, and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform
Experience with Docker/containerization and CI/CD pipelines (Buildkite or similar) for automated builds and deployments
Familiarity with Git
RDBMS experience with query optimization with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL
Familiarity with Monday/Linear for task management
Experience working with distributed services and microservices
Must be opinionated and willing to ask questions to fully understand issues and tasks.
Must be self-disciplined and able to work independently when needed.
Must be approachable and responsive to a variety of cross-functional teams and issues.
Must be able to resolve problems, handle conflict and make effective decisions.
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of production employees, peers, executives, and vendors.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with front-end frameworks (Vue, TypeScript) for customer-facing experiences is a plus
Comfortable with AI assisted development (Claude Code/Codex)
Automated deployment/system maintenance
Adaptability and ability to pick up new techniques quickly.
Good interpersonal and communication skills
Keep up to date with technology advances in your field and how this affects the business environment.
Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize.
Effective written and verbal communication skills.
Capable of presenting technical information clearly and concisely.
Ability to “multi-task” while also reassessing priorities on a continual basis.

Responsibilities

Work in an Agile environment to collaborate, analyze, design, develop, deploy, and support applications to meet business and technical needs and requirements.
Write well-designed, testable code with containerized deployments and continuous integration testing approaches.
Help break down, estimate, and provide just-in-time design for small increments of work.
Provide direction and share knowledge with team members.
Participate in weekly sprint cycles
Keep stakeholders informed of your progress using the issue management system.
Work with the e-commerce team to support and enhance the day-to-day operations of the applications and systems you will be working on.
Collaborate with end-users to find innovative solutions to problems.
Resolve critical production downtime issues.