Senior PHP Engineer

What You Will Do

Architect Backend Services: Design and develop new business-led content management services and APIs with an emphasis on performance, scalability, and reliability.

Drive Full-Stack Solutions: Work closely with DevOps on backend solutions to complex problems, ensuring scale and availability across our content platforms.

Build CMS Infrastructure: Develop services and APIs that enable editors to create visually-rich and data-driven content experiences, and streamline backend workflows so stakeholders can produce more content quicker.

Integrate AI/ML: Integrate content classification ML/AI processes and pipelines to better annotate video and image assets, enabling smarter aggregation and distribution.

Modernize Legacy Systems: Upgrade and migrate existing legacy backend services into modern frameworks, and adapt and optimize current systems for deployment on cloud-based infrastructure.

Platform Consolidation: Facilitate better content distribution and aggregation within the various business units, and contribute to consolidating distinct CMS platforms used across the organization.

Operational Excellence: Provide engineering support to stakeholders, ensuring a high level of service availability with appropriate testing, monitoring, observability, and alerting.

Data Modeling: Model complex data flows and schemas for transactional and integration workflows powering editorial and consumer-facing experiences.

Collaborate and Prototype: Work closely within a small engineering group, partnering with design and product teams to rapidly design, develop, and prototype solutions to key business challenges.

Mentor and Document: Contribute to clear documentation and diagrams to facilitate easy onboarding for other engineers and support teams. Review code to ensure adherence to best practices (style, testability, efficiency).

Required Qualifications

CMS Backend: Strong PHP development experience and deep familiarity with the Symfony framework, Composer package management, and Twig templating engine.

API Experience: 3+ years of experience designing and writing content-driven GraphQL and REST APIs in microservices-based architectures.

Data & Search: Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with popular open-source RDBMS, plus search technology such as Solr or Elasticsearch.

Cloud & Containers: Experience with cloud architecture (ideally AWS) and production experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

Engineering Fundamentals: Excellent understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and Design, with strong ability to architect and develop enterprise-level applications and backend systems.

Stakeholder Collaboration: Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Process & Tooling: Experience working with agile processes and version control systems (Git).

Education & Experience: BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

3+ years of experience building scalable, production-grade backend services and content platforms.

Strong proficiency in server-side languages, asynchronous programming, and modern object-oriented design patterns.

Experience designing and consuming APIs (REST and GraphQL) in microservices-based architectures.

Experience modeling complex data flows and schemas for transactional and integration workflows.

Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or OCI) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).

Familiarity with distributed systems concepts including caching (Redis, Memcached) and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ).

Strong debugging and performance troubleshooting skills, including use of monitoring/observability tools.

Soft Skills: Strong initiative, creative thinking, and the ability to work in a collaborative, innovative, flexible, and team-oriented environment. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Passion for sports and a dedication to creating exceptional fan experiences.

Preferred Qualifications

CMS Exposure: Exposure to popular proprietary or open-source CMS systems such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, or Magento.

Additional Languages: Exposure to Golang and/or Rust for performance-critical services.

Cloud Focus: 3+ years working with cloud technologies (AWS is strongly preferred).

Certifications: Cloud certifications (AWS, GCP, OCI).

Frontend Skills: Working knowledge of Node.js, TypeScript, and React/Next.js sufficient to collaborate on full-stack features and contribute to shared tooling.

Web Fundamentals: Familiarity with HTML, CSS (layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility), and Web Components.

Collaboration: Proven experience in cross-team collaboration for requirements, implementation, and testing.

AI Tooling: Experience with AI development tools (Cursor, Copilot, etc.) to optimize engineering workflows.

Enthusiasm: Enthusiasm for learning new frameworks and languages.

Originally posted on Himalayas