Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. The Software Engineer will build, improve, and evolve the backend systems, focusing on designing reliable APIs and maintaining a mature PHP architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reliable, well-documented RESTful APIs consumed by internal teams and external customers at scale
• Navigate and extend a large, mature PHP monolith… understanding existing patterns, respecting stability, and improving incrementally
• Identify and address technical debt in a principled way, balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term maintainability
• Integrate and maintain third-party SDKs and external services, ensuring reliability, error handling, and graceful degradation
• Write clean, testable code that meets and elevates team coding standards… leaving every surface better than you found it
• Collaborate closely with engineering peers and leads to review code, share context, and raise the technical bar across the team
• Debug and resolve production issues across a complex, interconnected system… quickly, thoroughly, and with clear communication
• Contribute to architectural discussions and help evaluate technical tradeoffs as systems evolve

Skills

• 3+ years of professional PHP development experience in a production environment
• Demonstrated experience designing and building RESTful APIs… versioning, authentication, error handling, and documentation
• Strong MySQL skills - schema design, query optimization, and understanding of indexing and performance at scale
• Experience working within large, legacy codebases… comfortable reading unfamiliar code and making safe, targeted changes
• Familiarity with third-party SDK integration patterns and handling upstream service failures gracefully
• Understanding of SOLID software engineering principles, testing strategies, and code review practices
• Experience with Git-based workflows and collaborative development in a team environment
• Cloud infrastructure exposure is a plus

Benefits

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
• 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
• Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
• Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
• $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
• Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
• Company paid Wellable subscription

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