Own feature delivery from backend to frontend, ensuring seamless functionality across the stack
Design tables, relationships, and constraints for new domains and evolve existing schemas without breaking critical workflows
Ensure data models are well-documented, consistent, and aligned with business goals
Make pragmatic architectural decisions that balance speed, safety, scalability, and long-term maintainability
Manage complex workflows including user registrations, subscription renewals, e-commerce transactions, and payment integrations
Maintain operational resilience of background jobs supporting mission-critical tasks
Mentor mid-level engineers and guide junior developers to build technical excellence across the team
Lead code reviews with a focus on data modeling, architecture, and clean code standards
Set patterns and standards for modules, services, and models aligned with business goals
Work directly with product teams and founders to translate business requirements into clear technical designs
Break work into coherent projects to maintain alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders
Communicate trade-offs clearly and propose improvements to enhance overall system quality
Design safe, reversible database migrations
Ensure scalability and reliability of production systems
Take ownership of background jobs, queue usage, and observability using monitoring tools such as Grafana

Requirements

10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development using PHP and Laravel
Experience building large, complex Laravel applications from initial development through deployment
Hands-on experience with data modeling, system architecture, and evolving schemas for performance and scalability
Experience building and maintaining e-commerce systems, including orders, subscriptions, payments, and third-party integrations
Experience with PHP packages, background jobs, queue systems, and event-driven architectures
Strong expertise in data modeling and architectural decision-making
Full-stack capability with experience using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Ability to lead technical decisions while remaining highly hands-on in code
Proven mentorship and leadership skills
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

PHPLaraveldata modelingsystem architecturee-commerce systemsHTMLCSSJavaScriptbackground jobsqueue systems

Soft Skills

mentorshipleadershipcommunicationcollaborationtechnical decision-makingproject managementproblem-solvingcode reviewtrade-off analysisguidance