About the role
Our client is looking for a Backend Developer to join their Engineering team full-time and take ownership of their 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
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
What we're looking for
Required Qualifications
3+ years of full-time professional PHP development experience working on a team
Hands-on experience using AI coding tools in production (Claude Code preferred; Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, or similar accepted)
Intermediate to Advanced MySQL: schema design, query writing/optimization, safely updating production data
Intermediate to Advanced JavaScript: vanilla JS, DOM manipulation, events, fetch/async, JSON handling
Intermediate to Advanced CSS: responsive/mobile-first, cross-browser compatibility, CSS custom properties
Git and collaborative development workflows
Strong written and verbal English communication
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
Comfortable maintaining and improving legacy codebases
Nice to Have
Go (Golang), Python
AWS (EC2, Lightsail, Apache config, deployments)
PostgreSQL
Linux/Shell (SSH, deployments, cron, CLI)
Multi-step form flows, lead generation, performance marketing, conversion funnel analytics
REST API integration and debugging