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PHP Backend Developer (AI-Assisted Development)
Nigeria
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
Originally posted on Himalayas
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