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PHP Backend Developer (AI-Assisted Development) at SnappyCX

Key Facts

Remote From: 
Full time
Mid-level (2-5 years)
English

Other Skills

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    Problem Reporting
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    Communication
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    Problem Solving
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    Teamwork

Roles & Responsibilities

  • 3+ years of full-time professional PHP development experience working on a team
  • Hands-on experience using AI coding tools in production environments
  • Intermediate to Advanced MySQL experience including schema design and query optimization
  • Strong written and verbal English communication

Requirements:

  • 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

Job description

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

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