SOFTWARE ENGINEER

The Constant Company, LLC

Job Overview

Location

Remote - United States

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Design and build reliable, well-documented RESTful APIs consumed by internal teams and external customers at scale
• Navigate and extend a large, mature PHP monolith by understanding existing patterns, respecting system stability, and making incremental improvements
• Identify and address technical debt in a principled manner, balancing immediate feature delivery with long-term code maintainability
• Integrate and maintain third-party SDKs and external services, ensuring reliability, robust error handling, and graceful degradation during upstream failures
• Write clean, testable code that adheres to and elevates team coding standards, leaving every code surface better than when it was found
• Collaborate closely with engineering peers and leads to conduct code reviews, share system context, and raise the overall technical bar across the team
• Debug and resolve complex production issues across a highly interconnected, high-scale cloud infrastructure system, with speed, thoroughness, and clear communication
• Contribute to architectural discussions and evaluate technical tradeoffs as the platform evolves to support growing customer demands and new product capabilities
• Work within a Git-based workflow to manage code changes, ensure version control best practices, and coordinate collaboration in a distributed team environment
• Maintain a strong focus on system performance, scalability, and reliability while developing features for a globally used cloud infrastructure platform
• Participate in the full lifecycle of backend features — from concept and design through deployment, monitoring, and iterative refinement
• Respect the stability of legacy systems while advocating for incremental modernization and improved code quality across the codebase
• Engage in continuous learning and knowledge sharing to improve team-wide understanding of the PHP monolith and associated infrastructure components
• Prioritize system health and maintainability without sacrificing delivery speed or customer impact
• Support the platform powering hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries, directly enabling developers and businesses worldwide
• Ensure all code and systems meet security and compliance standards aligned with global data privacy regulations, including U.S. privacy rules and India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of professional PHP development experience in a production environment
• Demonstrated experience designing and building RESTful APIs, including versioning, authentication, error handling, and documentation
• Strong MySQL skills, including schema design, query optimization, and understanding of indexing and performance at scale
• Experience working within large, legacy codebases, comfortable reading unfamiliar code and making safe, targeted changes
• Familiarity with third-party SDK integration patterns and handling upstream service failures gracefully
• Understanding of SOLID software engineering principles, testing strategies, and code review practices

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans
• 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
• Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
• Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
• $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
• Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
• Company paid Wellable subscription

Skills & Technologies

PHP

MySQL

Git

REST

Remote

$80k-95k

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About The Constant Company, LLC

The Constant Company, LLC operates the Vultr cloud infrastructure brand, providing on-demand compute, storage, bare-metal, and managed Kubernetes services from 32 global data centers. Founded in 2014, the company targets developers, SaaS businesses, and enterprises with hourly billing, API-driven provisioning, and standardized hardware. Services include virtual machines, block storage, load balancers, object storage, managed databases, and cloud GPUs, all accessible through a unified control panel and REST API. Vultr emphasizes price-performance, global reach, and rapid deployment for web applications, CI/CD workflows, and edge workloads without long-term contracts.

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