Senior Software Engineer PHP

We are Kforce, supporting a client seeking a Senior Software Engineer PHP in West Palm Beach, Florida. We offer comprehensive benefits to eligible employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, HSA and FSA options, a 401(k), and life, disability, and ADD coverage. Salaried team members receive paid time off, and eligible hourly employees may receive paid sick leave depending on the project.

This role is not eligible for bonuses, incentives, or commissions. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to protected characteristics.

• We require 5+ years of professional software development experience, with strong hands‑on expertise in modern PHP 8+ and widely used frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, or Slim.
• We need deep MySQL knowledge, including schema design and query tuning for high-traffic, low-latency applications.
• We expect solid experience building RESTful APIs using current design standards.
• We value experience with Redis for caching, distributed locking, queues, and performance improvements.
• We look for familiarity with message queues and asynchronous systems such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, or Redis Streams.
• We require proficiency with container technologies and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• We want experience with observability tools, including logging, monitoring, tracing, and telemetry platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or Open Telemetry.
• We expect understanding of API security practices, including OAuth2, JWT, RBAC, rate limiting, and OWASP principles.
• We require experience with cloud platforms such as Vultr, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure, along with infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• We value familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and Git-based development workflows.
• We need excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively across distributed teams.

• We design, develop, and maintain high-performance PHP applications that handle millions of API requests each day.
• We architect and optimize MySQL schemas, queries, and indexing strategies to support fast access.
• We build and maintain RESTful APIs aligned with modern API design standards, including OpenAPI and versioning best practices.
• We design asynchronous workflows, background jobs, queues, and event-driven integrations where needed.
• We take part in architecture conversations, incident response, and root-cause analysis for production issues.
• We partner with product and engineering teams to define technical needs and deliver scalable solutions.
• We review code, mentor junior engineers, and promote strong engineering practices.
• We write clean, well-tested code with thorough unit and integration test coverage.