PHP Developer

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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Job Summary

Senior PHP Engineer (Symfony) You must be in Eastern Time US

About the Company

Our client isnt just a 3PL*theyre a growth partner for ecommerce and DTC brands. Their AI-powered platform and network of owned & operated fulfillment centers help 1500 merchants stress less and grow more. With 2500 team members across five countries theyre building the fastest click-to-delivery and real-time inventory visibility with a merchant-first mindset.

*Quick note: 3PL Third-Party Logisticsthey store inventory pick/pack and ship orders for ecommerce brands powered by their own WMS and apps.

Why Join

Global owned network: 12 fulfillment centers across the U.S. Canada Mexico U.K. and EU (no outsourcing).
Proprietary tech: AI-powered real-time view of inventory & orders; robust internal platform used by associates robots pack stations and conveyors.
Hands-on support: On-site teams at every facility; mom-and-pop care at global scale.
Transparent pricing: Predictable all-in pricing; long-term partnerships.
Here for the long haul: $10M annual R&D investment; they open-source selectively and contribute back.

Core Values

Merchant-First Own It People Make the Company Change the Score Get Sh*t Done

The Role

Youll join the Product Development team to build and scale the backend that powers fulfillmenteverything from order ingestion and wave planning to pick/pack/ship workflows device clients and integrations with autonomous robots and conveyors. Youll work U.S. hours (ET preferred) and partner closely with a seasoned global engineering org.

Reporting to: Director of Engineering (Europe)
Location: U.S. Remote (East Coast strongly preferred)
Compensation target: $200k base DOE (plus standard benefits)

Tech Stack

Core: PHP 8.3 Symfony 6 Doctrine ORM MySQL 8 RabbitMQ GraphQL Elasticsearch
Infra: Docker Kubernetes (AWS) Argo CD GitLab CI
Quality/Obs: PHPStan PHPCodeSniffer PHPUnit custom phpstan rules & sniffs >15k DB integration tests E2E Cypress
Ops: DataDog Sentry Opsgenie; HA/failover/autoscaling

What Youll Do

Design and implement high-throughput Symfony services and REST-like APIs used by web clients iOS picker devices micro-computer packers and automation equipment.
Tackle concurrency and race conditions common in warehouse environments; write resilient code that behaves under load.
Optimize MySQL at terabyte scale (indexes query plans partitions) and tune RabbitMQ consumers for throughput and reliability.
Contribute to the monorepo (shared libs CI checks codegen docs) and improve developer ergonomics.
Write reliable tests (PHPUnit DB integration datasets) and participate in two-round reviews with QA/E2E verification.
Partner with TPMs and operations to turn floor feedback into shippable softwaredeployed multiple times per day with one-click Argo CD.
Help retire legacy reduce tech debt and raise bar on code health (static analysis coverage custom rules).

Nice to Have

Deep Symfony internals; custom bundles/components
GraphQL schema design at scale; Elasticsearch relevance tuning
Event-driven design; idempotency patterns; exactly-once/at-least-once semantics
SRE/operability instincts (dashboards SLOs on-call rotation with Opsgenie)
Experience in WMS/3PL ecommerce or high-volume transactional systems

How They Work (and what theyre proud of)

Fully dockerized local dev; single-click per-MR ephemeral clusters for CI testing.
Automated API docs for REST-like endpoints.
Renovate-bot and comprehensive security scans.
Open-source select tools and contribute back to the community.

Impact in Your First 90 Days

30 days: ship a meaningful feature/bugfix to production; add/extend tests; land a small performance win.
60 days: own a service area; drive a schema/index change with measurable latency or throughput improvements.
90 days: lead a cross-component change (e.g. queue topology consumer tuning) that improves SLAs during peak.

Interview Process

Take-home technical exercise small code submission
90-minute technical deep-dive with a senior engineer
3-hour panel with the broader team
They move quickly. Note: they actively assess for authentic original work (they can detect AI-generated submissions).

Must-Have Qualifications

510 years building production PHP systems (3 with Symfony preferred; strong Laravel ok if willing to switch)
Advanced SQL/MySQL skills (indexes query plans locking transaction boundaries)
Experience with queues (RabbitMQ Kafka etc.) and distributed systems trade-offs
Proficiency with Docker CI code quality tooling and rigorous automated testing
Clear communication ownership and a bias to shipU.S. business hours

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

Kubernetes on AWS; Argo CD; GitLab CI pipelines
GraphQL APIs at scale; Elasticsearch optimization
Warehouse/IoT device clients automation or robotics integrations
Observability (DataDog/Sentry) incident response on-call participation

Senior PHP Engineer (Symfony) You must be in Eastern Time USAbout the CompanyOur client isnt just a 3PL*theyre a growth partner for ecommerce and DTC brands. Their AI-powered platform and network of owned & operated fulfillment centers help 1500 merchants stress less and grow more. With 2500 team m...