PHP Developer

Senior PHP Developer (Direct Hire)

Location: Within Tricity (Mandatory)

Salary: 60000-65000 per month

Employment Type: Full-Time, Direct Hire

Schedule: Flexible. Must overlap with U.S. Pacific Time business hours by at least 70%.

Employer: Suna Solutions

Reports To: IT Manager

Candidates must have experience with Linux.

Role Overview

Suna Solutions is seeking a highly experienced Senior PHP Developer to join the company as a direct hire employee. This is a senior-level, hands-on engineering role responsible for supporting and advancing all internal PHP-based software systems.

This position will be the sole PHP developer within the organization. The individual will assume full ownership of existing applications and future PHP development initiatives.

Upon hire, the developer will receive structured knowledge transfer and training support from the PHP developers who originally built Suna Solutions internal systems. This transition period is expected to last approximately four-six months. Following this period, the developer will independently maintain, enhance, and expand all PHP-based software solutions across the organization. This role requires a high level of autonomy, accountability, and sound engineering judgment.

Required Experience & Qualifications

Experience

• 7+ years of professional PHP development experience
• Proven experience delivering production-grade systems
• Experience working independently with full ownership of applications

PHP & Frameworks

• Strong PHP expertise
• Experience developing applications using a PHP framework preferred
• Experience building both web-based and headless/CLI-driven PHP applications
• Comfortable working with background jobs, scheduled tasks, and queue-based processing

Development Tooling

• Strong working knowledge of Composer
• Expert use of Git for version control, including branching strategies and conflict resolution
• Daily use of a professional IDE
• Experience leveraging a modern development environment for productivity and code quality

Databases & SQL

• Strong experience with MySQL
• Ability to write complex SQL queries
• Ability to optimize queries for performance
• Ability to design efficient database schemas
• Understanding of indexing, query plans, and transaction behavior

Security

• Experience writing secure, defensive code
• Working knowledge of common web application vulnerabilities
• Experience mitigating risks such as SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, input validation flaws, and authentication/authorization weaknesses

Code Quality

• Writes clean, readable, well-organized, and maintainable code
• Understands long-term maintainability and system health
• Demonstrates strong personal ownership of code quality

AI Usage Expectations

• Experience using AI tools to enhance productivity and development workflows
• Demonstrates judgment and verification when incorporating AI-assisted output
• Maintains full ownership and responsibility for all produced code

Performance & Optimization

• Experience optimizing PHP applications for efficiency
• Able to manage CPU and RAM usage effectively
• Comfortable working with long-running processes and scheduled tasks
• Understands real-world performance tradeoffs

Environment

Current environment includes:

• Windows-based infrastructure
• IIS
• PHP
• MySQL on Windows Server

Suna Solutions maintains several internally developed software systems critical to business operations. This role is responsible for maintaining and improving these systems while also contributing to new development initiatives as business needs evolve.

The Senior PHP Developer will report to the IT Manager and collaborate with business stakeholders to translate operational needs into reliable software solutions.

Nice to have skills (Not Compulsory)

• WordPress Development Experience
• Front-End Skills (HTML/CSS/JS)
• Maintain corporate website
• Strong experience with WordPress core architecture
• Experience developing custom themes (not just modifying purchased themes)
• Experience with page builders (Elementor, WPBakery, etc.)
• Ability to optimize WordPress performance
• Experience securing WordPress environments

Communication Requirements

• Strong English written and verbal communication skills
• Able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfortable working with a U.S.-based organization
• Must maintain at least 70% schedule overlap with U.S. Pacific Time business hours

What Success Looks Like

• Maintains and stabilizes existing PHP applications
• Successfully completes knowledge transfer within the initial transition period
• Independently manages all PHP-based software systems
• Delivers new functionality aligned with business needs
• Produces secure, maintainable, high-quality code
• Demonstrates strong ownership and accountability