TIAG is now hiring a Senior PHP Developer to join our team and play a key role in building, scaling, and maintaining high-quality web applications. You’ll work closely with product, design, and engineering teammates to deliver reliable, well-architected solutions and help set technical standards across the team.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys hands-on development, mentoring others, and influencing technical direction without being fully removed from the code. This role will require a government security clearance to be processed, US or Naturalized Citizenship is a requirement for consideration.
100% Remote (US-based), with a strong preference for candidates in the Pacific Time Zone to align with team hours.
Job Responsibilities
- Architect full-stack solutions across font end, database, mobile
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable PHP applications and APIs
- Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code following best practices
- Collaborate with Product and Design to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Lead code reviews and help establish engineering standards
- Optimize application performance, security, and scalability
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues and drive root-cause resolution
- Mentor junior and mid-level developers
- Contribute to architecture decisions and long-term technical roadmap
Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional experience with PHP development
- Strong experience with modern PHP frameworks (Laravel, Symfony, or similar)
- Solid understanding of object-oriented design and design patterns
- Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
- Strong knowledge of SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Familiarity with frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
- Experience with version control (Git) and interactive rebase
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical partners
- Experience working with a remote team
TIAG is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor. Consequently, the parties agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 41 CFR 60-300.5(a), and 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and employment decisions shall be based solely on merit and without regard disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations. TIAG takes proactive steps to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals without regard to disability or protected veteran status. The parties also agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements and may be subject and required to take action pursuant to the following laws and accompanying regulations:
The Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended (and its implementing regulations at 41 C.F.R. 60-300);
Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (and its implementing regulations at 41 C.F.R 60-741); and
Executive Order 13496 (and its implementing regulations at 29 C.F.R. part 471, Appendix A to Subpart A).
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