Senior Software Developer- PHP

Sensaria is a leader in the Wall Decor and Print-On-Demand industry. We operate 8+ e-commerce storefronts, two business-to-business brands, in-house art creation, and coast-to-coast production facilities. Sensaria brings moments and art to life. We are proud to be a leading innovator in our industry, enabling more for customers - more products, more quality and speed. We are enthusiastic, we think bigger and work hard to unlock opportunity and achieve incredible results.

Where most see a blank canvas, Sensaria sees infinite possibility. The chance to impact the senses and shape a moment in time, realizing a vision of design and decor that can reinvent, renew, and revive. With equal parts passion and operational excellence, Sensaria creates new ways to bring art and memories to life in any space. And through innovation, quality and speed, the company empowers unlimited growth potential for clientele. Enabling more for customers - more efficiency, more creativity, and more moments of inspiration, Sensaria thinks bigger and bolder to unlock opportunity and achieve incredible results together.

Job Description Overview:

As a Senior Software Developer, you will work in our agile development environment and add new features, enhance current functionality, and fix bugs in our order management systems. Our systems and services are comprised of several different technologies, but this position will center around PHP/MySQL. This role will also interact with other organizations and teams within Sensaria / Circle Graphics and will have the opportunity to interface with other internal APIs and systems.

This role is not eligible for work sponsorship at this time.

This role will be based in our Morrisville, NC HQ location. (we are open to remote candidates in the Eastern & Central time zones)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Software Development

• Work in an Agile environment to collaborate, analyze, design, develop, deploy, and support applications to meet business and technical needs and requirements.

• Write well-designed, testable code with containerized deployments and continuous integration testing approaches.

• Help break down, estimate, and provide just-in-time design for small increments of work.

• Provide direction and share knowledge with team members.

• Participate in weekly sprint cycles

• Keep stakeholders informed of your progress using the issue management system.

Systems Support

• Work with the e-commerce team to support and enhance the day-to-day operations of the applications and systems you will be working on.

• Collaborate with end-users to find innovative solutions to problems.

• Resolve critical production downtime issues.

EDUCATION AND FORMAL TRAINING:

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year College or University plus at least three years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITY:

Technical skills requirements:

• PHP (8.x)

• An MVC framework such as Laminas/Zend, Laravel, or Symfony

• Familiarity with test-driven development; Unit and Integration Testing using PHPUnit/Pest/Cypress/Playwright

• Experience with software debuggers like XDebug

• Experience using AWS SQS, Eventbridge, and other distributed work queue systems

• Experience developing solutions in a cloud environment (AWS preferred), including ECS, Lambda, and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform

• Experience with Docker/containerization and CI/CD pipelines (Buildkite or similar) for automated builds and deployments

• Familiarity with Git

• RDBMS experience with query optimization with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL

• Familiarity with Monday/Linear for task management

• Experience working with distributed services and microservices

• Familiarity with front-end frameworks (Vue, TypeScript) for customer-facing experiences is a plus

• Comfortable with AI assisted development (Claude Code/Codex)

Additional Preferred skills:

• Automated deployment/system maintenance

• Adaptability and ability to pick up new techniques quickly.

• Good interpersonal and communication skills

• Keep up to date with technology advances in your field and how this affects the business environment.

• Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize.

• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

• Capable of presenting technical information clearly and concisely.

• Ability to “multi-task” while also reassessing priorities on a continual basis.

INTELLECTUAL DEMANDS:

• Must be opinionated and willing to ask questions to fully understand issues and tasks.

• Must be self-disciplined and able to work independently when needed.

• Must be approachable and responsive to a variety of cross-functional teams and issues.

• Must be able to resolve problems, handle conflict and make effective decisions.

• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of production employees, peers, executives, and vendors.

Location: Hybrid in Morrisville, NC at our HQ location (Open to Remote in EST or CST time zones only)

Schedule: Monday-Friday 8AM-5PM

Benefits:

Circle Graphics + Sensaria offers a competitive compensation package, which includes vacation days, sick days, paid holidays, paid maternity and paternity leave, paid floating holiday, along with Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, STD, LTD, Optional Life insurance, and opportunities for professional development. .

Circle Graphics + Sensaria is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status, and all other legally required non-discriminatory categories. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive and collaborative workplace where every team member can thrive.