[Remote] Software Engineer PHP

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kforce is a recruiting company seeking a Software Engineer PHP to join their team. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance PHP applications, as well as implementing and optimizing RESTful APIs and database schemas.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance PHP applications serving millions of API requests daily
• Design and optimize MySQL database schemas, queries, and indexing for performance and reliability
• Implement and maintain RESTful APIs following modern API design standards, including OpenAPI specifications and versioning best practices
• Design and implement asynchronous workflows, background jobs, queues, and event-driven integrations where appropriate
• Participate in architecture discussions, incident response, and root-cause analysis for production issues
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices
• Write clean, well-tested code with comprehensive unit and integration test coverage

Skills

• 3+ years of professional software development experience with strong proficiency in modern PHP (PHP 8+) and common frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, or Slim
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs using modern standards
• Experience with Redis for caching, distributed locking, queues, and performance optimization
• Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms (Vultr, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Expertise in MySQL including query optimization and schema design for high-traffic applications
• Familiarity with message queues and asynchronous processing systems such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, or Redis Streams
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and Git-based development workflows
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across distributed teams

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• HSA
• FSA
• 401(k)
• Life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees
• Salaried personnel receive paid time off
• Hourly employees are eligible for paid sick leave on a Service Contract Act project

Company Overview

Dice is a job-searching platform for technology professionals. It is a sub-organization of DHI Group. It was founded in 1990, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.dice.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Dice has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2022, 4 in 2021, 5 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.