Senior PHP Backend Developer/ 6 days ago
Quick Summary
Who We're Looking For:
LeadingReach seeks a Senior PHP Backend Developer who leverages AI as a force multiplier for engineering excellence. You will lead core service development, pioneer "AI-First" workflows to accelerate the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and contribute to our PHP RESTful API supporting our web application. Join our cohesive team of highly productive senior developers who build great things. If you are a top-tier developer, enjoy a great company culture and rewarding work.
Location: Fully remote, open to candidates across approved U.S. states, with a preference for those in Texas (especially Austin) or Atlanta.
Who We Are:
LeadingReach is a health-tech SaaS provider dedicated to transforming patient care management. Based in Austin, Texas, LeadingReach offers a HIPAA-secure, web-based platform. This platform connects healthcare providers on the LeadingReach Network, enabling digital patient referrals, clinical documentation sharing, and communication, thereby reducing reliance on faxes and phone calls.
What You Need:
Minimum Requirements
- PHP Expertise: Minimum 5 years of professional experience as a PHP software developer or demonstrable expert-level architectural aptitude.
- API Mastery: Minimum 5 years of experience building scalable RESTful APIs that support complex frontend database applications (CRUD+Search) while enforcing strict business rules.
- Symfony Framework: Professional working experience using the Symfony framework for enterprise-grade applications.
- AI-Driven SDLC: Proven experience optimizing the SDLC through AI-driven workflows to accelerate boilerplate generation, refactoring, unit test coverage, and documentation.
- Automated Quality & Security: Working experience integrating AI-powered static analysis and automated PR review tools to identify quality gaps and security vulnerabilities (OWASP) before production.
- Relational Databases: Professional experience using MySQL and writing advanced SQL to handle complex datasets.
Skill & Ability:
- Expert proficiency with AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Gemini, etc.) and the ability to craft complex system prompts to improve code maintainability.
- Ability to audit AI-generated code for "hallucinations," security flaws, and architectural "smells."
- Expert-level PHP development and deep familiarity with Symfony components (Messenger, Workflow, API Platform).
- Expert RESTful API design focusing on performance, scalability, and frontend-friendly data structures.
- Advanced SQL skills, including complex Joins, Cross Joins, Group By, Unions, Embedded Selects, and query optimization.
- Intermediate to Advanced expertise in MySQL administration and schema design.
What We Offer:
Benefits & Perks:
- Competitive salary
- 100% Remote, must be based in U.S.
- Startup environment within a stable, industry-leading company
- 20 days PTO, 4 paid mental health days, plus paid holidays
- Company-sponsored health, vision, and dental benefits
- Matching 401k
- Flexible schedule that emphasizes collaborative team synergy with personal accountability
- Regular company (often themed) events: virtual happy hours, annual company holiday party, and other fun team events