Staff Software Engineer - PHP Backend at Service Trade

You're a seasoned Staff Software Engineer with over 8 years of backend PHP experience, a proven history of modernizing large production systems, and deep expertise in MySQL performance tuning and distributed systems. **What makes it worth a look...** Service Trade, a fully remote company based in Durham, NC, is seeking this role. You'll be instrumental in evolving a complex, multi-tenant SaaS platform, working with cutting-edge AI tooling and facing genuine distributed systems challenges at scale. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have expert-level MySQL knowledge, including tuning execution plans and optimizing across sharded databases. * Possess extensive hands-on experience with AWS services like CloudFormation, EC2, RDS, and SQS. * Demonstrate mastery of automated testing best practices with PHPUnit and CI/CD integration. * Have strong production experience with MongoDB and asynchronous processing systems like SQS.