Key skills
PHPMySQLRESTfulGitCommunication
About this role
Vultr is a leading cloud infrastructure company on a mission to make high-performance cloud solutions accessible. They are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to build and improve backend systems, focusing on API design 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
Requirements:
- 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