Senior PHP Engineer

FloSports leads the way in delivering world-class digital streaming for millions of fans families and athletes in underserved sports. Our digital platform unites casual and dedicated spectators alike offering thrilling live events from around the world with interactive features real-time analytics and powerful broadcast technology. As the essential destination for niche sports content we deliver everything from breaking news and expert commentary to feature films documentaries and multi-episodic series. Weve revolutionized the global sports media industry by building a diverse teamtechnologists and wrestlers creators and cheerleading experts designers and hockey enthusiasts communicators and motorsport fanatics producers and sports fansall united by our passion to serve underrepresented sports communities. Were creating the ultimate destination for our sports and were looking for people like you to join us!

THE ROLE:

FloSports an industry leader in digital sports streaming and original content for underserved sports communities is seeking a Senior PHP Engineer to help modernize and scale our backend systems. This role is ideal for an experienced developer who thrives in complex high-throughput environments and values pragmatic maintainable solutions. Youll contribute to the evolution of our core platform that powers live and on-demand experiences for millions of fans balancing stability and performance with ongoing innovation.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support high-throughput legacy systems undergoing gradual modernization while delivering new features. Performance stability and reliability are top priorities.

• Participate in task refinement and discovery including technical spikes and exploratory work.

• Participate actively in code reviews ensuring high standards for code quality maintainability and performance while mentoring peers through constructive feedback.

• Contribute to system design and architecture discussions helping evolve legacy systems toward modern modular solutions.

• Work effectively within mature legacy codebases: identifying and implementing improvements while maintaining a pragmatic focus on delivery.

• Maintain an estimated workload split of 90% backend / 10% frontend.

• Participation in the on-call rotation will become a required part of the role once sufficient system familiarity is developed.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• 5 years of professional PHP development experience

• Hands-on experience profiling and optimizing PHP applications for query performance caching and request throughput

• Experience designing building and operating distributed systems using microservices architecture

• Strong understanding of scalability fault tolerance performance and observability best practices

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows

• Proven ability to write high-quality maintainable code across multiple services and team boundaries

• Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve complex production issues in distributed environments

• Strong knowledge of ORMs particularly Doctrine and solid relational database fundamentals (joins indexing query performance)

• Bonus: working knowledge of TypeScript/

• Bonus: experience integrating AI tools into SDLC workflows

• Excellent communication problem-solving and collaboration skills

• Adaptable in a fast-paced evolving environment with shifting priorities

• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of complex projects and drive them to completion with minimal supervision

• Curious open-minded and motivated to continuously improve

TECH STACK:

• Experience with the following technologies is strongly preferred:

• Backend: PHP 7.2 with Symfony 5.x (heavy use of dependency injection custom bundles and event dispatchers) Familiarity with PHP 8 is a bonus

• Data Stores: MySQL and Redis

• Frontend: jQuery and SASS

• Testing: PHPUnit (with Mockery for mocks/stubs)

• Tooling & CI/CD: Swagger Docker DataDog GitHub Actions

• Cloud: Deploying workloads on AWS

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY:

FloSports exists to elevate the communities athletes and sports that have too often been overlooked. That mission starts with our own team. We believe that a diverse inclusive workplaceone where different perspectives are sought out heard and valuedis essential to building a company that can truly serve the full spectrum of sports fans.

We are committed to creating a fair and equitable environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive. To help mitigate bias and expand opportunity FloSports uses a blind recruiting process that supports more objective inclusive hiring decisions. Were intentional in our practices because we believe the best ideas and innovations come from teams that reflect the diversity of the world around us.

OUR BENEFITS:

• Recognized three years in a row as a Top Workplace by the Austin-American Statesman

• Flexibility at work - you can take control of your profession and personal schedule

• All-hands events hosted annually in beautiful Austin Texas

• Annual equity awards for all top performers

• Competitive and comprehensive medical dental and vision plans

• Peace of mind through company-paid short-term disability long-term disability and life insurance

• Generous 401(K) company match vested immediately

• Progressive parental leave policies

• Flexible paid time off

• Hack-a-thons and a full calendar of team-building and social events

• Company donation to youth teams and leagues that our employees coach

• Stocked snack bar catered lunch and breakfast tacos every week

Required Experience:

Senior IC