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Averity

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Averity, New York, New York, us, 10261

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Senior PHP Engineer (Symfony) U.S. Remote (ET Preferred)

About the Company

Our client isnt just a 3PL*theyre a growth partner for ecommerce and DTC brands. Their AI-powered platform and network of owned & operated fulfillment centers help 1,500+ merchants

stress less and grow more . With 2,500+ team members across five countries, theyre building the fastest click-to-delivery and real-time inventory visibility with a merchant-first mindset. *Quick note:

3PL = Third-Party Logistics they store inventory, pick/pack, and ship orders for ecommerce brands, powered by their own WMS and apps. Why Join

Global, owned network:

12+ fulfillment centers across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., and EU (no outsourcing).

Proprietary tech:

AI-powered, real-time view of inventory & orders; robust internal platform used by associates, robots, pack stations, and conveyors.

Hands-on support:

On-site teams at every facility; mom-and-pop care at global scale.

Transparent pricing:

Predictable, all-in pricing; long-term partnerships.

Here for the long haul:

$10M+ annual R&D investment; they open-source selectively and contribute back.

The Role

Youll join the

Product Development team

to build and scale the backend that powers fulfillmenteverything from order ingestion and wave planning to pick/pack/ship workflows, device clients, and integrations with autonomous robots and conveyors. Youll work U.S. hours (ET preferred) and partner closely with a seasoned global engineering org. Reporting to:

Director of Engineering (Europe) Location:

U.S. Remote (East Coast strongly preferred) Compensation target:

$110k$130k base

DOE (plus standard benefits) Tech Stack

Core:

PHP 8.3,

Symfony 6 , Doctrine ORM, MySQL 8, RabbitMQ, GraphQL, Elasticsearch

Infra:

Docker, Kubernetes (AWS), Argo CD, GitLab CI

Quality/Obs:

PHPStan, PHP_CodeSniffer, PHPUnit, custom phpstan rules & sniffs, >15k DB integration tests, E2E Cypress

Ops:

DataDog, Sentry, Opsgenie; HA/failover/autoscaling

What Youll Do

Design and implement

high-throughput Symfony services

and REST-like APIs used by web clients, iOS picker devices, micro-computer packers, and automation equipment.

Tackle

concurrency and race conditions

common in warehouse environments; write resilient code that behaves under load.

Optimize

MySQL at terabyte scale

(indexes, query plans, partitions) and tune

RabbitMQ

consumers for throughput and reliability.

Contribute to the

monorepo

(shared libs, CI checks, codegen, docs) and improve developer ergonomics.

Write

reliable tests

(PHPUnit + DB integration datasets) and participate in two-round reviews with QA/E2E verification.

Partner with TPMs and operations to turn floor feedback into shippable software deployed multiple times per day

with one-click Argo CD.

Help

retire legacy , reduce tech debt, and raise bar on code health (static analysis, coverage, custom rules).

Nice to Have

Deep Symfony internals; custom bundles/components

GraphQL schema design at scale; Elasticsearch relevance tuning

Event-driven design; idempotency patterns; exactly-once/at-least-once semantics

SRE/operability instincts (dashboards, SLOs, on-call rotation with Opsgenie)

Experience in WMS/3PL, ecommerce, or high-volume transactional systems

How They Work (and what theyre proud of)

Fully dockerized local dev;

single-click, per-MR ephemeral clusters

for CI testing.

Automated API docs

for REST-like endpoints.

Renovate-bot

and comprehensive security scans.

Open-source select tools and contribute back to the community.

Impact in Your First 90 Days

30 days:

ship a meaningful feature/bugfix to production; add/extend tests; land a small performance win.

60 days:

own a service area; drive a schema/index change with measurable latency or throughput improvements.

90 days:

lead a cross-component change (e.g., queue topology + consumer tuning) that improves SLAs during peak.

Interview Process

Take-home

technical exercise + small code submission

90-minute

technical deep-dive with a senior engineer

~3-hour

panel with the broader team They move quickly. Note: they actively assess for

authentic, original work

(they can detect AI-generated submissions).

Must-Have Qualifications

510+ years building

production PHP

systems (3+ with

Symfony

preferred; strong Laravel ok if willing to switch)

Advanced

SQL/MySQL

skills (indexes, query plans, locking, transaction boundaries)

Experience with

queues

(RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.) and distributed systems trade-offs

Proficiency with

Docker , CI, code quality tooling, and rigorous automated testing

Clear communication, ownership, and a bias to ship U.S. business hours

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

Kubernetes on AWS; Argo CD; GitLab CI pipelines

GraphQL APIs at scale; Elasticsearch optimization

Warehouse/IoT device clients, automation, or robotics integrations

Observability (DataDog/Sentry), incident response, on-call participation

Compensation

$125,000 per year #J-18808-Ljbffr