Senior/Staff Platform Software Engineer (PHP/Angular)

We are looking for a full-time, remote Senior / Staff Platform Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience to join our U.S. client. The role focuses on designing, building, and evolving the foundational systems that power the products. This role requires an experienced engineer with strong hands-on expertise in PHP and TypeScript (Angular) who can operate with minimal oversight and deliver pragmatic, customer-focused solutions. The ideal candidate is an engineer who already possesses deep technical expertise, architectural judgment, and product-oriented thinking — and can apply those skills immediately in a production environment.

Our client provides integrated software and marketing solutions for the hospitality industry, specializing in short-term rental management. Their platform provides vacation rental companies with an enterprise-class property management system integrating booking, guest communications, and financial reporting systems - all built with partner organization integrations in mind.

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable platform services using PHP as a primary backend language

Build and maintain frontend systems using TypeScript and Angular

Architect and evolve shared platform capabilities used across multiple products and teams

Translate product requirements into pragmatic, maintainable technical solutions

Apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles and architectural modeling to complex business domains

Make sound tradeoffs between ideal architecture and practical delivery timelines

Build and integrate systems leveraging LLM-based tools to accelerate development workflows

Design and implement features powered by LLMs and agent-based systems, including orchestration, evaluation, and observability

Improve engineering velocity through tooling, automation, and thoughtful system design

Collaborate cross-functionally with product and design teams to ensure technical decisions align with customer needs

Contribute to cloud architecture decisions and ensure systems are scalable, secure, and cost-aware

Required Experience

Excellent English communication skills

7+ years of professional software engineering experience

Deep, production-grade experience with PHP

Strong front-end development experience using TypeScript and Angular

Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production

Strong understanding of API design, RESTful services, and event-driven systems and solid knowledge of relational databases and data modeling

Practical experience applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) concepts and architectural models (layered architecture, hexagonal / clean architecture, event-driven architecture, etc.)

Demonstrated ability to evolve legacy systems incrementally

Ability to design systems that balance correctness, scalability, cost, and delivery speed

Hands-on experience deploying and operating systems in AWS, with familiarity with core AWS services (e.g., EC2, ECS / EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM) and strong understanding of cloud-native patterns, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization

Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) is strongly preferred

Hands-on experience using LLM-based tools in daily development workflows

Experience integrating LLM APIs into production systems

Familiarity with prompt design, evaluation strategies, and reliability patterns

Ideally : experience building features or internal tools powered by LLM agents, including orchestration, tool use, guardrails, and monitoring

Strong product mindset with p ragmatic decision-maker — prioritizes customer impact over theoretical purity and avoids dogmatic adherence to patterns or tools

Experience making technical tradeoffs in ambiguous environments

Ability to reason about cost, complexity, maintainability, and time-to-market

Highly self-motivated and accountable, with the ability to drive initiatives independently from concept to production with minimal oversight

Comfortable operating in environments with evolving requirements

Desired Experience

Experience with other major cloud providers (GCP or Azure) is a plus

Experience defining platform strategy or technical direction across teams

Experience mentoring engineers and raising overall engineering standards

Proven track record of modernizing systems at scale

Experience designing developer platforms or internal tooling ecosystems

Strong opinions loosely held — able to debate rigorously and adapt when new information emerges

Additional Information

Knowing your ideas are heard and matter think big!

You get to own your job and be recognized for your contributions

Work with smart and creative people

Making mistakes is human. Lets learn from them. Be transparent!

We recognize you as an individual no presumptions or judgment. Be the extraordinary you!

15 days Paid Time Off (PTO), 1 floating day, 3 sick days, and designated national holidays

Start : ASAP

About Velozient

We are a privately held, nearshore software development company providing outsourced development resources to North American companies. Our mission is to offer development talent that enjoy taking on challenging work, want to grow their skills and experiences building software, and excel in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment. We are focused on providing world-class remote resources to work as valued client team members. If this type of opportunity excites you, then consider joining our team!