Senior Software Engineer (PHP/STOMP)
ImagineX is a tech company that deploys AI-assisted teams to build and secure mission-critical enterprise solutions with our clients – spanning software, data, and AI. Structured like a software company, not a traditional consultancy, we blend deep technical expertise with authentic values, achieving world-class satisfaction (NPS 91). Our dedicated teams specialize in software, data, and AI across the U.S. and LATAM, bridging the gap between boutique agility and enterprise scale. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer who can design, implement, operationalize, and support enterprise-grade messaging solutions using Amazon MQ and the STOMP protocol. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in distributed systems, understands event-driven architectures, and has hands-on experience integrating PHP applications with message brokers. You will play a key role in modernizing enterprise integrations, enabling asynchronous communication patterns, and improving the reliability and scalability of mission-critical applications. This is a 100% remote full-time opportunity. Key ResponsibilitiesDesign, build, and operationalize messaging solutions using Amazon MQ (ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ) to support reliable communication between enterprise applications and services. Develop and maintain PHP-based integrations leveraging the STOMP protocol for message publishing, consumption, routing, and processing. Configure and manage Amazon MQ brokers across development, test, and production environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and operational stability. Monitor messaging infrastructure and proactively troubleshoot broker performance issues, message delivery failures, queue backlogs, dead-letter queues, and connectivity problems. Collaborate with application development, infrastructure, security, and platform teams to onboard new messaging workloads and establish integration standards. Support the full lifecycle of messaging solutions, including architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, migration, and production support. Implement automation, observability, and CI/CD integration for messaging platforms, including monitoring, alerting, logging, and infrastructure provisioning. Required Experience & SkillsStrong hands-on experience with Amazon MQ and proven experience implementing STOMP-based messaging solutions in PHP applications Experience designing and supporting message-oriented middleware in enterprise environments. Strong understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, pub/sub architectures, queues, topics, and event-driven system design. Experience troubleshooting broker performance issues, message delivery failures, and high-volume messaging workloads. Familiarity with AWS services and cloud-native integration patterns. Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and operational support processes for messaging platforms.
Nice-to-Have
Skills (Differentiators)Experience with ActiveMQ Artemis, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, or other streaming/event platforms. Experience migrating legacy messaging solutions to Amazon MQ. Knowledge of enterprise security patterns, including TLS, certificate management, OAuth, and role-based access controls. Experience with Java, Python, or Node.js in addition to PHP. Exposure to microservices architectures and event-driven application modernization initiatives. Who Thrives HereEngineers who enjoy solving complex integration and messaging challenges at enterprise scale. Professionals who value reliability, operational excellence, and system observability. Builders who want to modernize enterprise application architectures through event-driven design. Team players who collaborate deeply across application, infrastructure, and security domains. SPONSORSHIP NOT AVAILABLE Apply To This Job