**Job Title:** Senior PHP Engineers
We are seeking skilled professionals to join our team as Senior PHP Engineers. The successful candidates will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining backend services and APIs in PHP (modern object-oriented PHP, preferably Laravel) backed by MySQL.
Key Responsibilities:
* Designing, building, and maintaining backend services and APIs in PHP (modern object-oriented PHP, preferably Laravel) backed by MySQL, with a focus on performance, reliability, and clear domain boundaries.
* Managing dependencies with Composer, keeping our services up-to-date, secure, and easy to work on including external and internal packages.
* Working with containerised services (e.g., Docker) deployed to AWS EKS, helping to design and tune container builds, health checks, resource usage, and scaling behaviour.
* Implementing and integrating serverless components in AWS Lambda where they make sense (event-driven processing, glue code, automation tasks) alongside our containerised workloads.
* Collaborating daily with Product, QA, DevOps, Security, and other engineers to refine requirements, design solutions, and break work down into deliverable slices within our sprint cycles.
* Owning complex tickets end-to-end – from reading technical specs and architecture diagrams, to implementation, test coverage, code review feedback, and production rollout.
* Contributing to and using our CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable deployments, and helping to improve build, test, and deploy stages for PHP and containerised services.
* Actively participating in incident response when needed – investigating production issues, restoring service quickly, and contributing to root cause analysis and follow-up improvements.
* Applying security and compliance best practices in your day-to-day work – from secure coding and dependency management to handling of data and secrets.
The ideal candidate will have strong, recent experience in PHP and a modern framework (ideally Laravel) building production systems at scale. They will also have a deep understanding of Composer and how to structure PHP services for long-term maintainability.
The successful candidate will have hands-on experience with AWS and containerised development, comfortable working with Docker, EKS (or Kubernetes), and Lambda. They will also have a solid grasp of modern engineering practices, such as automated testing, code review, trunk/branch strategies, CI/CD, observability, and managing technical debt.