Senior PHP Developer

POSITION OVERVIEW

CMK Resources client is seeking a Sr. PHP Engineer to build, support, and improve an existing business-critical application running in AWS and Azure. This person writes and reviews code, develops APIs and integrations, troubleshoots production issues, and helps keep the platform stable, secure, and performant. The ideal candidate works independently on complex features, contributes to design discussions, follows established architecture and security standards, and is comfortable moving between a production issue, a code review, and a feature build in the same day.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES / SKILLS

• Develop and support the organizaitons PHP applications hosted in AWS and Azure, contributing to application stability, production readiness, incident response, and ongoing platform improvement
• Write clean, maintainable, secure, and high-performing PHP code, and participate in design reviews and code reviews to uphold quality expectations
• Build, maintain, and improve application capabilities, RESTful APIs, integrations, backend services, front-end workflows, background processing, and operational tooling
• Contribute to technical design discussions and implement changes that align with established architecture principles, integration patterns, and security expectations
• Follow secure engineering practices, including data protection, access control, dependency awareness, and compliance-sensitive implementation
• Apply and help refine platform standards, coding best practices, playbooks, and reusable patterns used by the engineering team
• Maintain and improve platform integrations across internal and external systems so interfaces remain reliable, observable, scalable, secure, and supportable in production
• Optimize applications and data access patterns for performance, scalability, reliability, and supportability
• Participate in production support and release activities, including troubleshooting, incident triage, hotfixes, root-cause analysis, production validation, and post-release follow-up
• Improve technical documentation, API contracts, operational runbooks, test coverage, and observability to increase consistency and supportability
• Translate business requirements into practical technical solutions and collaborate with engineering, product, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to deliver committed work
• Break down assigned work, surface dependencies and risks early, provide realistic estimates, and mentor less experienced engineers

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of professional PHP development experience
• Experience developing software using AI-assisted and/or agentic development tools and workflows is highly encouraged, including using them responsibly to accelerate coding, testing, code review, debugging, and documentation without compromising quality, security or maintainability
• Strong experience with Laravel and/or Symfony, object-oriented programming, application design principles, and maintainable software patterns
• Experience building, configuring, troubleshooting, and supporting PHP-based web applications and backend services
• Experience designing, developing, implementing, and troubleshooting RESTful APIs, including contract design, versioning, authentication and authorization, and payload validation; experience with healthcare APIs such as HL7 or FHIR is an advantage
• Strong SQL skills with MySQL, including schema understanding, query troubleshooting, performance tuning, and production data issue resolution
• Experience supporting business-critical applications hosted in AWS, including deployments, infrastructure dependencies, monitoring, incident response, hotfix support, and root-cause analysis
• Experience working across a full web application stack, including PHP backend services, front-end technologies, relational databases, caching, background processing, file storage, APIs, and integrations
• Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern web technologies
• Experience with Git version control, collaborative development workflows, Agile delivery practices, and release coordination
• Knowledge of secure engineering practices, data privacy, access control, dependency awareness, and HIPAA or similar compliance-sensitive environments
• Familiarity with DevOps or SRE practices, including reliability, observability, deployment support, and production readiness
• Ability to estimate and sequence your own work, weigh trade-offs between speed, cost, risk, and long-term maintainability, and explain those trade-offs clearly to peers, product, and business stakeholders
• Experience mentoring or coaching other engineers through code reviews and pairing
• Healthcare, ordering workflow, HL7/FHIR, or platform modernization experience is helpful but not required
• Strong communication, ownership, and delivery accountability skills

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

-Must be US Citizen or Green Card Holder - No 3rd Parties

-3 month contract-to-hire