PHP Engineer

Role Description

We're hiring a PHP Engineer to build and own the internal tooling that powers Wand's Global Ops teams, specifically Maps & Testing. You'll build and maintain the backend services and internal tools these teams rely on day-to-day, and increasingly work on AI-driven features like automated maps QA. You'll partner closely with the backend team and the Global Ops teams who depend on your work.

This is a senior individual contributor role. You're self-managing, opinionated, and take ownership of what you ship when you push code; you're around to support it. You'll measure your own success by what the teams shipped because your tooling made it easy.

What You’ll Do

• Own the tooling for Maps & Testing
• Scope, design, ship, and stabilize the internal tools and services the Maps & Testing teams depend on. Own the fix when something misbehaves.
• Build and maintain features in Laravel Nova and related backend surfaces.
• Make architectural calls, data model evolution, caching boundaries, where to spend latency budget, when to refactor and when to rewrite.
• Work fluidly across the data layer. Relational stores at scale (MySQL, MariaDB) and document stores (Firestore) are both in the toolkit, and you know which to reach for and when.
• Treat performance, observability, and operational health as part of "done." Dashboards and alerts ship with the feature.
• Build AI-powered features and automation
• Work on AI-driven features and pipelines, including automated maps QA and other automation for Maps and testing workflows.
• Move across the stack when the work demands it, open TypeScript PRs when a feature is better wired end-to-end than handed off.
• Have opinions on the workflows and product surfaces your tools support, not just API shapes.
• Drive the roadmap
• Take ownership of what you work on, what you cut, and what you sequence. The bar is that you eventually drive your area on your own.
• Push cross-cutting initiatives nobody else will, observability gaps, data model debt, perf regressions, API hygiene.
• Provide substantive code review and raise the level of design discussions when the design needs it.

Qualifications

• 5–6 years building production backend systems in PHP, ideally for a consumer product with real scale.
• Strong with PHP 8.5 Laravel, with hands-on Laravel Nova experience.
• Working knowledge of TypeScript, enough to wire a feature end-to-end when needed.
• Relational data modeling at scale (MySQL, MariaDB, or Postgres).
• Experience building internal tools, APIs, or automation systems.
• Outcome-oriented and high ownership.
• Fluent with the AI tooling that's reshaping how engineers work.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Self-managing.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity package.
• Fully remote work arrangement.
• The chance to build core infrastructure for an audience of 40M+ players who will actually feel the difference.
• A team of people who genuinely love games, move incredibly fast, and care deeply about what they build.

How to Apply

Please submit your resume.

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Wand is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of background.