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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior PHP Backend Engineer - **Company:** Fever - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, PHP (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Automation of Tests, Software Quality, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Laravel, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Pair Programming, Queueing Systems, RabbitMQ, Redis, Swagger, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Symfony, Openapi, Datadog, Delivery Pipeline, Phpunit, Grafana, Concurrency, Caching, AWS Lambda, Backend, Git, Event Driven Architecture, Production Code, Apache Kafka, Front End Software Development, Cloudwatch, Restful APIs, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Docker, Microservices - **Published:** August 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pg4dndr9s4 ## About the Role We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (PHP) who loves solving complex problems, designing resilient systems, and building reliable services that handle real traffic at scale. If you thrive in distributed environments, care deeply about code quality, and enjoy working with event-driven architectures, you'll feel right at home at Fever., * Robust experience building backend systems, especially using PHP 8+. * Solid experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs at scale. * Deep understanding of MySQL and PostgreSQL. * Strong knowledge of microservices, distributed systems, concurrency and event-driven architectures. * Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines and delivering software from dev to production. * Good technical judgment: you know when to iterate fast and when to reinforce stability. * Experience with testing and code quality tools (PHPUnit, PHPStan, SonarCloud). * Excellent command of Git and collaborative development. * Professional proficiency in English. It would be a plus if you have experience in: * Experience with AWS infrastructure (SQS, Lambdas, CloudWatch, ECS/EKS). * Experience with Redis, caching strategies and message queues like Kafka or RabbitMQ. * Familiarity with frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel or Slim. * Observability tools (Datadog or similar). * Experience handling services with 1,000+ requests/second. * Background integrating critical external APIs (payments, financial systems). * Experience working in agile, cross-functional international teams. * Curiosity, creativity and a proactive mindset. ## Description You will work on the backend systems that power large-scale experiences, payments, reconciliation processes and high-traffic flows used by millions of users worldwide ., * Get fully onboarded into Fever's engineering culture, our architecture, and our technical stack (PHP 8, microservices, Docker, AWS, CI/CD). * Work closely with your team in plannings, groomings and retrospectives. * Make your first contributions to production systems with several PRs merged. * Understand and interact with core services: authentication, payments, reconciliation, operational tools. * Attend one of Fever's experiences like Candlelight . After 3 months in Fever: * Design and implement backend solutions end-to-end: from architecture to production-ready code. * Develop and maintain high-performance PHP services and APIs following OpenAPI/Swagger contracts. * Contribute to cross-team projects, architecture discussions and internal engineering initiatives. * Own monitoring, performance, reliability and observability of the modules you work on (logs, metrics, tracing). * Collaborate with infra, product, frontend and backend teams in a highly dynamic environment. On your 6th month in Fever: * Own and evolve critical parts of Fever's distributed system architecture. * Lead the design and implementation of a new microservice from scratch to production. * Drive improvements in scalability, resiliency, performance and code quality. * Mentor teammates through code reviews, technical design sessions and pair programming. * Join team buildings and engineering-wide activities. 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