Web Developer (PHP / API Integrations / UX)

Job Description

Overview We're seeking a web developer with strong backend and API-integration experience to help build and expand a web platform for worker onboarding, security/access management, and operational compliance in a data-center environment. The platform runs today at one site and is being scaled to multiple locations across the organization. You'll own features end-to-end — backend, data, and a clean server-rendered UI — working directly with the product owner in a fast, iterative, AI-assisted workflow (we develop alongside an AI coding assistant; you'll review, extend, and harden that work as well as write your own). Tech stack: PHP 8.2 (procedural, server-rendered), MariaDB/MySQL, Docker/Docker Compose, Linux (AlmaLinux, cPanel/WHM, Apache + AutoSSL), vanilla JavaScript + HTML/CSS, Git/GitHub. No SPA framework — this is a server-rendered application. Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance the platform's onboarding, security, and operational workflows.
• Build and maintain integrations: consume third-party REST APIs (e.g., a physical access-control / badge system), build internal webhook endpoints, and run scheduled sync, import, and reconciliation jobs.
• Scale the platform for multi-site use, including per-site data isolation/scoping.
• Write careful, well-tested changes against live data — migrations, backfills, de-duplication, and record matching — with attention to data integrity.
• Create clean, intuitive server-rendered interfaces and workflows.
• Improve performance, reliability, and security.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions; troubleshoot application issues, integration failures, and performance bottlenecks.
• Follow lightweight iterative process: small changes, code review, changelog entries, and version discipline; collaborate in an AI-assisted development workflow.

Skills and Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional web development.

• Strong PHP and hands-on SQL (MySQL/MariaDB) — you can model data and write and optimize queries directly.

• Strong experience building and consuming RESTful APIs, including auth, pagination/rate limits, and resync/reconciliation logic.

• Comfortable with Docker and Linux server environments (self-hosted, not just managed cloud).

• Solid vanilla JavaScript / HTML / CSS for server-rendered UIs.

• Web-app security fundamentals: parameterized queries / injection prevention, access control, PII handling, audit logging.

• Able to design intuitive interfaces and improve UX.

• Strong troubleshooting; works independently in a remote role; comfortable with Git/GitHub. Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting applications in data-center, infrastructure, or enterprise-operations environments.

• Onboarding, access-management, or physical-security/badge workflow experience.

• Experience building multi-site/multi-tenant applications with per-site data scoping.

• Comfort working alongside AI coding tools (reviewing and extending AI-generated code).

• UX/UI design experience.

• Google Apps Script or spreadsheet-driven integrations.

• Authentication / authorization / identity-management integration experience.

• cPanel/WHM, Apache, or self-hosted deployment experience.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].