PHP Backend Developer (AI-Assisted Development)

SnappyCX is hiring a PHP Backend Developer to build and maintain lead-capture flows, backend systems, and web experiences using modern AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Collaborate asynchronously with the engineering team and communicate progress clearly

Requirements

• 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; Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, or similar accepted)
• Intermediate to Advanced MySQL experience (schema design, query writing and optimization, safely updating production data)
• Intermediate to Advanced JavaScript skills (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

How to Apply

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