Senior PHP Engineer
First seen by Alion on Oct 30, 2026.
About Ignite Vision
Ignite Vision is a product-driven fintech company building enterprise software that powers financial operations, payment processing, and business management. Our platform is actively used in production and continuously evolves to meet the highest standards of scalability, security, and performance.
Our engineering team develops modern, high-availability systems using technologies including PHP, MariaDB, ClickHouse, JavaScript, React, Node.js, Elasticsearch, Linux, and distributed web services. We foster a collaborative engineering culture where clean architecture, technical excellence, and continuous improvement are at the core of everything we build.
We’re looking for a Senior PHP Engineer to help shape the future of our platform. In this role, you’ll work on complex backend systems, APIs, and business-critical applications alongside experienced engineers, contributing to architectural decisions and building software that delivers real value to customers.
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and web applications.
- Build new platform features, integrations, and APIs.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code following modern engineering practices.
- Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical planning.
- Improve application performance, reliability, scalability, and security.
- Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, backend developers, and product stakeholders.
- Contribute to the ongoing modernization and continuous improvement of our technology stack.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional PHP development experience.
- Strong expertise in modern PHP application development and software design principles.
- Solid knowledge of JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern web technologies.
- Strong experience with MariaDB/MySQL, including query optimization and database performance tuning.
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs.
- Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows.
- Experience writing unit and integration tests.
- Comfortable working in Linux environments, including Bash scripting.
- Experience building and optimizing scalable, high-performance web applications.
- Ability to perform thoughtful code reviews and contribute to architectural improvements.
Nice to Have
- Experience with the Yii framework.
- Experience with React.
- Experience with Elasticsearch.
- Experience within fintech, payments, or financial services.
- Experience working on large-scale, distributed, or high-availability systems.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- A passion for writing clean, maintainable, and reliable software.
- A collaborative mindset with excellent communication skills.
- Ownership, accountability, and attention to detail.
- Curiosity, continuous learning, and a willingness to share knowledge with the team.
What We Offer
- The opportunity to work on a modern, large-scale fintech platform.
- Flexible remote or hybrid working arrangements.
- Competitive salary based on experience and technical expertise.
- Regular performance and salary reviews.
- Additional health insurance and comprehensive social benefits.
- Clear opportunities for career progression and professional growth.
- Support for certifications, conferences, training, and continuous learning.
- A collaborative, supportive engineering culture focused on technical excellence.
- 20+ days of paid annual leave.
Why Ignite Vision?
At Ignite Vision, engineering is at the heart of our business. We value technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration, and we encourage our engineers to contribute ideas, influence architectural decisions, and continuously improve the products we build. If you’re looking for an opportunity to solve challenging technical problems while growing alongside a talented team, we’d love to hear from you.