PHP Developer

Job Title

Job Information

Date Opened 09/25/2026

Job Type Contract

Industry Financial Services

City Covington

State/Province Kentucky

Country United States

Zip/Postal Code 41011

Job Description

The expertise you have: You have a passion for technology and can navigate your way across sophisticated and rapidly changing landscapes by staying on top of the latest trends and thrive by sharing knowledge. Are a creator, a doer, and a disruptor who will help us seek real-life problems and meet real customer needs. You'll be helping us build things, taking an idea, and crafting rapid prototypes that are shippable and learn from real-life feedback. A self-starter, who actively challenges status-quo, is curious and not afraid to ask "Why" and "What if"? Are experienced with the tools of the trade including a variety of modern programming languages and frameworks. Have an attitude of test first development and are experienced in modern test frameworks. Can measure, collect, and use data to make decisions. We understand the value of intuition and the need to balance decisions accordingly.

The skills you bring: Required skills: Minimum of 5 years of software engineering development experience. Proven hands-on experience working with PHP 8, Node.js, NPM, Angular 17+, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Git, REST APIs, and modern web application development. Proven hands-on experience developing Angular applications using Standalone Components, Signals, and modern control flow syntax. Strong experience maintaining, enhancing, and troubleshooting legacy PHP applications. Experience modernizing monolithic applications and migrating functionality from PHP-based architectures to Angular and Node.js solutions. Proven experience identifying, analyzing, and remediating application security vulnerabilities including OWASP Top 10 risks. Experience implementing secure coding practices, authentication, authorization, input validation, and data protection controls. Experience with relational databases including MySQL. Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and integrating with enterprise systems. Proven experience writing automated tests (unit, integration, and end-to-end) and following Test Driven Development (TDD) principles. Any combination of the following is a plus: Experience with Agile (Scrum or Kanban) methodologies and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices. Experience modernizing legacy PHP frameworks such as CodeIgniter as well as custom-built applications Experience with application security scanning tools such as Mend, CodeQL and SonarQube. Experience performing vulnerability remediation and supporting penetration testing efforts. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and containerized application deployments. Experience with cloud platforms including Azure and AWS. Experience with OAuth, OIDC, SAML, and other enterprise identity integrations.

The value you deliver: Daily activities will involve designing, development, automated testing, meeting with technology peers (including architecture) to work through technical designs, supporting other developers on the team with their work, and participating in Agile ceremonies (Daily Stand up, Backlog grooming, Retrospective meetings) Captures requirements and runs or participates in the systems design effort. Develop maintainable standards and scalable solutions. Adhering to project timelines, addressing, and resolving technical issues. Ensuring code reviews, unit testing, and integration testing are completed efficiently and effectively. Fosters teamwork/motivation and spirit of collaboration with project team and business and systems partners