Software Engineer, PHP

Cars Commerce

full-time

Posted on: 10/22/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $104,100 - $130,150 per year

JuniorMid-Level

JavaScriptNode.jsPHPSQLTypeScript

About the role

Collaborate closely with Product leadership to turn bold business goals into measurable, incremental outcomes
Drive best-in-class engineering practices around observability, security, and reliability, ensuring your services perform flawlessly in production
Own the quality and maintenance of business-critical systems you and your team builds
Participate in on-call rotations to quickly resolve incidents and postmortems to drive continuous improvement in system reliability
Ensure comprehensive documentation of API designs, system architectures, and operational procedures to enable internal teams and external customers to easily build and integrate with the APIs in a self-service manner

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
2 to 5+ years of PHP experience in development of web services and APIs
Strong experience building backend services with Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript
Hands-on experience with Node.js frameworks for API development (Express, Fastify, NestJS, or similar)
Experience building RESTful APIs and understanding of API design principles
Experience with SQL and demonstrated proficiency in database design fundamentals
Proven track record of successfully delivering high-quality software
Strong collaboration, communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams
Understanding of secure software development practices
Solid understanding of build processes and test automation
Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, providing prompt incident resolution and conducting postmortems to improve system reliability.

Benefits

Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
Generous PTO
Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset
Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

PHPNode.jsJavaScriptTypeScriptExpressFastifyNestJSRESTful APIsSQLdatabase design

collaborationcommunicationinterpersonal skillscross-functional teamworkincident resolutioncontinuous improvementdocumentation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science