Senior PHP Backend Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional and cross-domain teams to gather requirements, design solutions, and deliver features
• Design, develop, and maintain backend systems using PHP and MySQL(or similar), ensuring they are scalable and maintainable
• Implement and optimize complex features with a focus on clean, reusable, and efficient code
• Write unit tests to ensure the reliability and scalability of code
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and ensure adherence to best practices in software development
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance, and security
• Share on-call duties with the team to ensure smooth operations of the systems in production
• Stay updated with new technologies and trends, and introduce them where appropriate to enhance system performance and maintainability

Requirements:

• Experience (5+ years) in object-oriented PHP and modern PHP tools
• Software design principles (SOLID, KISS, DRY) and layered architecture
• Applied DDD practices: bounded contexts, aggregates, domain events
• Good knowledge of the latest versions of Laravel framework
• Strong understanding of relational databases like MySQL/PostgreSQL including transaction management
• Experience in database query optimization, analysing deadlocks and db performance
• Message-driven services in production with Apache Kafka or a comparable broker
• Handling money in application code: exact arithmetic, explicit rounding rules, multi-currency precision, idempotent money-moving operations
• Security best practices
• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana or similar)
• Working with Docker/Docker Compose/Kubernetes on a daily basis
• Good level of spoken and written English (B1+) and Russian

Nice to have:

• Experience with Go
• Fintech, payments, or crypto domain experience
• High-load