Senior Software Engineer

You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering peers to ship high-impact features, improve scalability, and enhance the developer experience across teams. If you are self-motivated, collaborative, and passionate about technology, we’d love for you to join our team.Your ImpactDesign, build, and evolve scalable backend systems that power Pixieset’s platform and product ecosystemLead the development of high-quality PHP (Laravel) services and APIs that support reliability, performance, and long-term maintainabilityContribute to architectural decisions that improve system scalability, resilience, and developer velocity across multiple codebasesOwn backend initiatives end-to-end, from technical design through production release and operational supportImprove and maintain Pixieset’s platform foundations, including APIs, data models, caching layers, and infrastructureParticipate in operating production systems, including on-call rotations, incident response, root cause analysis, and driving reliability improvementsMentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and establishing backend best practicesPartner cross-functionally to translate product and business requirements into scalable technical solutionsIdentify and drive platform-level improvements that enhance performance, security, and system reliabilityRole Requirements5+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade backend systemsAbility to ramp up quickly with PHP and modern frameworks (Laravel and Symfony), with experience building and maintaining RESTful APIsProven experience designing relational database schemas (MySQL, PostgreSQL), optimizing queries, and implementing caching strategies (Redis)Demonstrated experience contributing to or leading system design and architectural discussions for scalable, distributed systems...