Software Engineer (Go, Typescript & PHP) Enterprise Supervision

Join the Enterprise Supervision team at Tyler Technologies

as a Software Engineer supporting a large-scale platform used by public sector organizations across the United States. This role focuses on maintaining, improving, and modernizing an established application stack built primarily with PHP, TypeScript, and MySQL, while contributing to the gradual introduction of Go-based APIs and services.

You will play a key role in stabilizing and enhancing existing systems, supporting engineering operations, and helping evolve the platform toward a more scalable, service-oriented architecture.

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The candidate must come into the Plano, TX or Modesto CA office at least 3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance a large-scale web application built with PHP, TypeScript, and MySQL.
• Maintain and enhance scalable, high-performance applications using AWS-native event-driven services, including API Gateway, EventBridge, Step Functions, Lambda, and SQS.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues, performance bottlenecks, and reliability concerns across the platform.
• Implement new features and improvements while ensuring system stability and maintainability.
• Contribute to the design, development, and support of new backend services written in GO as part of ongoing system modernization.
• Participate in debugging, root cause analysis, and production support activities.
• Collaborate with QA, Product, DevOps, and other engineering teams to deliver reliable software in an Agile environment.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, with strong attention to documentation and operational readiness.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure in AWS environments.
• Support the gradual modernization of legacy components and reduction of technical debt.
• Mentor junior developers and foster a culture of continuous learning and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree: in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years: of professional software development experience working on web or SaaS applications.
• Experience: with PHP backend development.
• Experience: working with TypeScript or modern JavaScript in web applications.
• Solid understanding: of MySQL or other relational databases, including query optimization and schema design.
• Experience: building or maintaining RESTful APIs.
• Ability: to troubleshoot and improve existing production systems.
• Familiarity: with Docker-based development environments.
• Experience: working in Agile development teams.
• Strong communication: and problem-solving skills.

Preferred

• Experience: developing backend services in GO.
• Experience: working with AWS cloud services, particularly serverless or event-driven components (API Gateway, Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, Step Functions).
• Experience: with PHP frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony.
• Familiarity: with Infrastructure as Code tools such as AWS SAM, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
• Experience: with observability and monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, X-Ray, or Datadog.
• Experience: working on legacy codebases undergoing modernization.