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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer - **Company:** NMI Partners, Inc. - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $50,000.0 - $60,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Data Security, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Open Web Application Security, Software Systems, Datadog, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Delivery Pipeline, Backend, Build Management, Low Latency, Codebase - **Published:** August 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/llydkklhtk ## About the Role * 6+ years of experience building and operating production-grade software systems in complex environments. * Strong experience developing backend services in PHP, with the ability and desire to work language-agnostically and quickly learn new languages, frameworks, and codebases as needed. * Proven experience working on reliable, scalable, and highly available systems, with a clear understanding of tradeoffs in performance, resilience, and maintainability. * Practical experience designing or contributing to platform-level reliability solutions, such as observability tooling, alerting strategies, or reliability standards. * Solid understanding of distributed system fundamentals, including failure modes, latency, capacity, and graceful degradation. * Experience defining and improving operational practices, including incident response, post-incident reviews, and preventative engineering. * Strong knowledge of relational databases and data access patterns, with an operational mindset toward performance and reliability. * Hands-on experience deploying and operating services in cloud environments (AWS or equivalent). * Familiarity with secure, compliance-aware development practices (eg: PCI, SOC 2, OWASP). * Ability to influence technical direction across teams through clear communication, sound judgment, and collaboration. ## Description * Design and build reliability-focused frameworks, tooling, and standards that improve platform uptime, performance, and operational confidence. * Drive initiatives that move reliability from reactive response to proactive engineering, emphasizing prevention, early detection, and fast recovery. * Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability into system design, development practices, and deployment workflows. * Establish and evolve observability practices, including metrics, logging, alerting, and dashboards that enable clear operational insight. * Identify systemic risks and failure patterns, and lead efforts to address them through automation, architectural improvements, and process refinement. * Contribute hands-on to production codebases, internal tools, and platform services with a focus on long-term maintainability. * Influence technical direction across teams through design reviews, technical proposals, and clear written communication. * Improve operational maturity through better incident practices, post-incident learning, and continuous improvement loops. * Mentor engineers by modeling strong ownership, technical judgment, and disciplined delivery. * Participate in on-call rotations, with a clear mandate to reduce operational load over time through engineering. ## Related Videos - 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