PHP Developer (Remote)
Himeros Brothers is hiring a PHP Developer to build and maintain the backend of our adult entertainment and glamour publishing platforms. You will work on high-traffic sites, improving performance, reliability, and feature delivery while collaborating closely with content, SEO, and design.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys pragmatic engineering, clean code, and rapid shipping. You will work across templates, APIs, integrations, and infrastructure that support our editorial and media experiences.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain PHP-based applications, APIs, and templates for content-heavy sites
- Optimize performance, caching, and database queries to handle sustained traffic
- Implement features that support editorial workflows, metadata, and structured content
- Improve code quality through testing, refactoring, and documentation
- Collaborate with SEO and content teams on schema, URL structures, and rendering for search
- Integrate third-party services (analytics, search, storage) securely and efficiently
- Monitor and address issues related to uptime, security, and data integrity
Requirements
- Strong experience with PHP 7/8 and modern development practices
- Solid grasp of HTTP, MVC patterns, routing, and templating
- Proficiency with relational databases (MySQL/MariaDB) and query optimization
- Experience with version control (Git) and collaborative workflows
- Familiarity with performance tuning, caching layers, and basic devops practices
- Comfort working with adult-oriented content and the compliance nuances it requires
- Clear communication and ability to work asynchronously in a remote team
What We Offer
- Meaningful ownership over backend systems powering established adult entertainment sites
- Direct collaboration with product, editorial, and SEO to ship impactful features
- Remote-first flexibility with reasonable scope and iterative delivery
- Opportunities to optimize high-traffic properties and see tangible results
- Focused, respectful team operating at the intersection of culture, media, and technology
If you are a pragmatic PHP engineer who cares about performance, stability, and shipping well-scoped work within adult entertainment, we would like to hear from you.