Senior Software Engineer

| Remote (
LATAM/EU preferred
) | Full-Time Contract

At , we're reimagining how professional headshots are created and delivered - from our core platform to a recently launched standalone AI product. Trusted by clients like Boeing, Capital One, and American Express, we transform smartphone selfies into polished, studio-quality portraits within three business days. Our work helps individuals and teams present themselves with consistency and confidence across digital platforms.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can take ownership of features end-to-end, contribute to architectural decisions, and execute with minimal hand-holding. You'll work directly with the Head of Engineering on a small team where your contributions will have immediate, visible impact.

You’ll work across our entire stack (PHP/React) but skew backend. You should be as comfortable designing a scalable queue system as you are debugging a React component, but your passion is in building robust server-side systems.

We run a headless architecture - React frontends powered by a Word Press API backend handling user management, payments, and integrations. The backend is real PHP engineering, not plugin configuration. We’re actively modernizing toward a clean architecture, so you’ll be building new systems the right way while improving what’s already there.

• Build new features and integrations - from initial architecture through deployment, you’ll own the full lifecycle
• Maintain and improve our existing codebase - squashing bugs, improving performance, and tackling technical debt alongside feature work
• Conduct code reviews - help maintain quality standards and share knowledge across the team
• Work on data and infrastructure - design and optimize MySQL databases, Redis caching, and background job systems
• Collaborate across the company - work with operations and customer success to understand real user problems; occasionally join customer calls to hear feedback firsthand

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong backend fundamentals - you think in systems, data flows, and edge cases before writing code
• Modern PHP expertise - with experience scaling high-traffic applications beyond standard CMS caching
• Self-directed - you figure things out, ask smart questions when stuck, and ship without needing to be managed closely
• 5+ hours of overlap with US Eastern Time

• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred)
• Payment system experience (Stripe)
• Background job/queue systems
• CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops practices
• Third-party API integrations (CRMs, external services)
• Docker and containerization
• Database performance tuning and optimization

• Asks "why are we building this?" before "how should I build this?"
• Takes ownership and follows through without being chased
• Communicates proactively - flags blockers early, shares context generously
• Cares about the product, not just the code

• Contract:
  
  Full-time, long-term (40 hrs/week)
• Compensation: $25 - $30 USD/hour, depending on experience
• Location:
  
  Remote.
  LATAM/EU preferred
  ; open to other regions if you can maintain 5-6 hours of overlap with US Eastern Time
• Schedule:
  
  Flexible within overlap hours

• Your resume or Linked In
• A brief note on a system you've architected or significantly improved - what was the problem, what did you build, what were the tradeoffs?