What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer (PHP/STOMP) position at ImagineX Consulting?
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, 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.
- Strong 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.
- 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.
- Engineers 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.