Looking for PHP developer + Magento (7 - 13 Years Experience) : Remote contract

Company Description Antern Technologies is a product and engineering services company with over a decade of experience building scalable digital platforms and enterprise solutions. The organization specializes in AI-driven products and custom technology solutions that help clients modernize systems, improve operational efficiency, and achieve measurable business outcomes.
Role Description This is a full-time remote contract role for a PHP Developer with strong Magento experience, ideally with 7–13 years of professional background. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining back-end services and Magento-based applications, ensuring performance, security, and scalability. The developer will work on building new features, integrating third-party APIs, optimizing existing modules, and troubleshooting complex technical issues.
Magento Open Source 2.4.7-p10 + custom modules
Backend: PHP 8; Composer 2
Database: MySQL; Aurora; MariaDB
Search Engine: OpenSearch 1.3
Web and cache: Nginx; Redis 7; Varnish 6
React applications: React 17; JavaScript; TypeScript; Redux / Redux Toolkit; React Router; Node 22
Storage and queue brokers: AWS SQS; S3
Quality tooling: PHPUnit 9; PHPCS / Magento Coding Standard; PHPStan; PHPMD; MFTF; Allure; Selenium
External integrations: Stripe; QuickBooks; Plivo; Google Maps; Mapbox
Team Management: Asana; Slack; GitHub
Development: Linux; Docker; Git; CI; Copilot
Key Responsibilities
Candidates should possess strong skills in Back-End Web Development, with hands-on experience in PHP and Magento, including custom module development and performance optimization.
Candidates should possess solid Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) skills, including designing maintainable architectures, applying design patterns, and writing reusable, testable code.
Desired skills:
PHP 8 and OOP. SOLID principles and maintainable business logic.
Magento 2 custom development. Create and maintain modules; understand module configuration, application areas, request handling and the catalog and sales domains.
Magento best practices. Dependency injection, plugins, observers, service contracts, repositories and generated factories; extend functionality.
Magento data model. Resource models, collections, EAV, declarative schema and data patches.
SQL and MySQL or MariaDB. JOINs, transactions, indexes and EXPLAIN; investigate slow queries and avoid inefficient collection loading.
OpenSearch. Understand search indexes, mappings, aliases and Magento indexers; diagnose indexing failures and search issues.
Redis and Magento caching. Understand application cache, full page cache, sessions, cache tags and invalidation; diagnose stale data and cache-related errors.
Composer and Docker workflow. Manage dependencies, autoloading and lock files; work inside containers.
Magento Coding Standard and review changes.
REST API and integrations. Work with HTTP, JSON, authentication and service contracts.

Work arrangement
Yes