
Senior PHP Developer
EverCommerce
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada
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💰 CA$100,000 - CA$140,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
DockerJavaScriptjQueryMySQLPHPSCSSVue.jsWebpack
About the role
- Develop, maintain, and enhance features on a legacy PHP codebase (PHP 5.6/8, Yii 1/2)
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to understand business requirements and deliver on tight timelines
- Lead by example in writing clean, scalable, and well-documented code
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior and mid-level developers
- Take deep ownership of projects—understanding dependencies, identifying risks, and thinking three steps ahead
- Drive high-quality solutions with a focus on performance, maintainability, and scalability
- Debug and profile applications using tools like xDebug
- Contribute to front-end development using Vue.js 2, Vuex, axios, jQuery, SCSS, and HTML
Requirements
- Strong experience with PHP 5.6 - PHP 8 with strong emphasis on OOP
- Hands-on expertise with Yii 1 and Yii 2 frameworks
- Advanced knowledge of MySQL 8
- Adept skills with modern JS libraries
- Proficiency with Vue.js 2, Vuex, axios, and jQuery
- Familiarity with SCSS, HTML, and modern build tools like Vite or Webpack (optional)
- Experience using Docker, Docker Compose, Git, and xDebug for development and debugging
- Familiarity with upgrading PHP by several versions
Benefits
- Flexibility to work where/how you want within your country of employment – in-office, remote, or hybrid
- Robust wellness benefits, including an annual wellness stipend
- 3 weeks of vacation to start, a paid volunteer day of your choosing, plus 2 floating holidays to celebrate anything of significance to you
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with 4% company match
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
PHP 5.6PHP 8Yii 1Yii 2MySQL 8Vue.js 2VuexaxiosjQuerySCSS
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentorshipcollaborationproblem-solvingownershipcommunicationscalability focusperformance focusclean code practicesdocumentation