PHP Backend Developer (AI-Assisted Development)

Nigeria Full-time Undisclosed
Job Description
Work Arrangement

• Employment Type: Full-Time

• Location: Remote

• Schedule: Full-Time with required overlap with US business hours

• Time Zone Requirement: Pacific Time overlap required

About the Role

Our Client is looking for a Backend Developer to join our Engineering team full-time and take ownership of our lead-capture ecosystem.

You'll build, improve, and maintain interactive multi-step form funnels that capture and route consumer leads, integrate with third-party APIs, and support analytics that drive conversion and revenue performance.

This is an AI-native engineering environment where development productivity is amplified through AI-assisted coding tools. Success in this role requires strong technical ownership, sound engineering judgment, and comfort working across existing production systems.

What You'll Do

• Build, modify, and maintain multi-step lead-capture flows and web experiences

• Develop backend functionality using PHP and MySQL

• Integrate and troubleshoot third-party APIs

• Create and maintain logging, reporting, and analytics solutions

• Improve conversion performance through iteration and optimization

• Write maintainable, reusable, and production-safe code

• Work within existing systems and improve legacy implementations where needed

• Collaborate asynchronously with the engineering team and communicate progress clearly

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-time professional PHP development experience working on a team

• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools in production environments
(Claude Code preferred; experience with Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, or similar AI-assisted development tools accepted)

• Intermediate to Advanced MySQL experience including:

• Schema design

• Query writing and optimization

• Safely updating production data

• Intermediate to Advanced JavaScript skills:

• Strong vanilla JavaScript

• DOM manipulation

• Events

• Fetch / async operations

• JSON handling

• Intermediate to Advanced CSS skills:

• Responsive and mobile-first development

• Cross-browser compatibility

• CSS custom properties

• Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows

• Strong written and verbal English communication

• Ability to independently solve problems and work with minimal supervision

• Comfortable maintaining and improving existing or legacy codebases

Nice to Have

• Go (Golang)

• Python

• AWS experience (EC2, Lightsail, Apache configuration, deployments)

• PostgreSQL

• Linux / Shell experience (SSH, deployments, cron, command line)

• Experience with:

• Multi-step form flows

• Lead generation

• Performance marketing

• Conversion funnel analytics

• Experience integrating and debugging REST APIs

What Success Looks Like

• Independently ships production-ready flow updates

• Uses AI coding tools effectively while maintaining code quality

• Builds reliable logging and reporting solutions

• Delivers clean API integrations with proper error handling

• Communicates proactively and requires minimal oversight

Work Arrangement

• Employment Type: Full-Time

• Location: Remote

• Schedule: Full-Time with required overlap with US business hours

• Time Zone Requirement: Pacific Time overlap required
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Job Snapshot
  • Posted: Jul 09, 2026
  • Job Type: Full-time
  • Location: Nigeria
  • Source: External