Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Higher Logic is an industry-leading engagement platform focused on delivering powerful online communities and communication tools. They are seeking a Senior Software Developer (Backend / PHP) to build and evolve core application systems that enhance community experiences for millions of users globally.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and ship high-quality product features in a multidisciplinary Agile team
- Design and evolve backend systems that support large-scale, highly configurable community applications
- Work across core application layers, APIs, integrations, and platform capabilities to deliver reliable end-to-end solutions
- Write reliable, well-tested code; participate in code review; mentor teammates through thoughtful feedback and shared patterns
- Triage, debug, and resolve production issues efficiently; collaborate closely with product, QA, support, and other engineers to close the loop quickly
- Contribute to application performance, scalability, resilience, and maintainability across a large and evolving codebase
- Help shape technical direction by improving architecture, coding standards, tooling, documentation, and team development practices
- Participate in guild or cross-team engineering discussions to strengthen backend practices and promote sustainable patterns across the organization
- Use AI-powered IDEs and assistants (e.g., Cursor, Copilot-style tools) to accelerate implementation, refactoring, debugging, and test generation—while ensuring correctness, security, and maintainability
- Apply AI thoughtfully: write strong prompts, verify outputs, and incorporate guardrails such as automated tests, static analysis, code review, and runtime validation
- Help define best practices for AI-assisted engineering, including where automation is most effective, what requires human review, and how to evaluate output quality in a production environment
- Partner on AI-enabled product and platform initiatives where relevant, including areas like moderation tooling, content workflows, search and discovery, summarization, admin productivity, and internal developer efficiency
Skills
- Strong understanding of Agile values and principles
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented design, modular architecture, and maintainable coding practices
- Experience building and supporting production applications at scale, with attention to performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability
- Experience designing and working with APIs and service boundaries in complex systems
- Ability to debug effectively, reason through production issues, and make sound tradeoffs in a large application environment
- Awareness of security best practices and experience identifying or addressing vulnerabilities in web applications
- Comfort working in containerized or modern local development environments and with contemporary engineering workflows
- Comfort with Git-based workflows, pull requests, and collaborative code review
- Practical experience using AI coding tools (Cursor or equivalent) in day-to-day development, including validating generated code and avoiding insecure or low-quality patterns
- 5+ years of professional software development experience building and maintaining production web applications
- Experience working in a large, mature application or platform with significant business logic, legacy considerations, and evolving architecture
- Experience with extensible or modular systems such as themes, plugins, integrations, or configurable platform features
- Experience working with asynchronous processing, background jobs, queues, or event-driven patterns
- Familiarity with database-backed applications and the performance considerations that come with them
- Experience with testing practices and tools that build confidence through automation
- Strong product instincts: you communicate tradeoffs well, care about user outcomes, and understand how technical decisions affect the customer experience
- Experience contributing to technical mentoring, architectural improvements, or shared engineering standards
Benefits
- Competitive compensation.
- Comprehensive health benefits package.
- 401(k) plan with employer match.
- Healthcare and dependent-care flexible spending account.
- Company short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Company culture that recognizes its employees.
- Room for growth and development and management that cares about your professional growth and will help you achieve your goals.
- Significant advancement opportunities for outstanding performers.
Company Overview
Higher Logic is a cloud-based community platforms. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://higherlogic.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Higher Logic has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.