PHP Backend Developer (AI-Assisted Development)

Work Arrangement - Employment Type: Full-Time - Location: Remote - Schedule: Full-Time with required overlap with US business hours - Time Zone Requirement: Pacific Time overlap required About the Role Our Client is looking for a Backend Developer to join our Engineering team full-time and take ownership of our lead-capture ecosystem. You’ll build, improve, and maintain interactive multi-step form funnels that capture and route consumer leads, integrate with third-party APIs, and support analytics that drive conversion and revenue performance. This is an AI-native engineering environment where development productivity is amplified through AI-assisted coding tools. Success in this role requires strong technical ownership, sound engineering judgment, and comfort working across existing production systems. What You’ll Do - Build, modify, and maintain multi-step lead-capture flows and web experiences - Develop backend functionality using PHP and MySQL - Integrate and troubleshoot third-party APIs - Create and maintain logging, reporting, and analytics solutions - Improve conversion performance through iteration and optimization - Write maintainable, reusable, and production-safe code - Work within existing systems and improve legacy implementations where needed - Collaborate asynchronously with the engineering team and communicate progress clearly Required Qualifications - 3+ years of full-time professional PHP development experience working on a team - Hands-on experience using AI coding tools in production environments (Claude Code preferred; experience with Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, or similar AI-assisted development tools accepted) - Intermediate to Advanced MySQL experience including: - Schema design - Query writing and optimization - Safely updating production data - Intermediate to Advanced JavaScript skills: - Strong vanilla JavaScript - DOM manipulation - Events - Fetch / async operations - JSON handling - Intermediate to Advanced CSS skills: - Responsive and mobile-first development - Cross-browser compatibility - CSS custom properties - Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows - Strong written and verbal English communication - Ability to independently solve problems and work with minimal supervision - Comfortable maintaining and improving existing or legacy codebases Nice to Have - Go (Golang) - Python - AWS experience (EC2, Lightsail, Apache configuration, deployments) - PostgreSQL - Linux / Shell experience (SSH, deployments, cron, command line) - Experience with: - Multi-step form flows - Lead generation - Performance marketing - Conversion funnel analytics - Experience integrating and debugging REST APIs What Success Looks Like - Independently ships production-ready flow updates - Uses AI coding tools effectively while maintaining code quality - Builds reliable logging and reporting solutions - Delivers clean API integrations with proper error handling - Communicates proactively and requires minimal oversight Work Arrangement - Employment Type: Full-Time - Location: Remote - Schedule: Full-Time with required overlap with US business hours - Time Zone Requirement: Pacific Time overlap required Originally posted on Himalayas