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We are looking for a skilled PHP Developer who can take ownership of building reliable, secure, and maintainable backend systems for modern web applications. You will work closely with frontend developers, product teams, and other engineers to develop APIs, manage databases, and support production-ready application features.
This role is for someone who can understand business requirements, write clean PHP code, and build backend functionality that performs well under real-world usage. You should be comfortable working with existing PHP codebases, improving application quality, fixing bugs, and building features that are stable, scalable, and easy to maintain.
You will not only write PHP scripts. You will think through application architecture, database design, authentication, authorization, validation, API structure, performance, error handling, and long-term maintainability. You will be expected to make practical technical decisions, identify backend risks early, and build solutions that other developers can confidently work with.
This is a hands-on backend development role. You should be able to take features from requirement to implementation, troubleshoot production issues, optimize database queries, and collaborate with frontend teams to deliver complete product functionality.
The ideal candidate has strong PHP development experience, solid database knowledge, API development skills, and the ability to build dependable systems for serious products.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain secure, scalable, and reliable PHP-based web applications.
- Develop backend features, APIs, business logic, and server-side workflows.
- Work with databases to design schemas, write queries, and optimize performance.
- Implement authentication, authorization, validation, and secure backend processes.
- Integrate third-party services, payment gateways, CRMs, communication tools, and external APIs.
- Debug backend issues, fix bugs, and improve application reliability.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-structured PHP code.
- Collaborate with frontend developers to ensure smooth API integration.
- Improve backend performance, scalability, logging, and error handling.
- Support deployment, maintenance, and production troubleshooting of PHP applications.
Candidate Requirements
- Strong experience with PHP development and modern backend development practices.
- Experience with PHP frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, Yii, or similar.
- Good understanding of relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar.
- Experience building and maintaining REST APIs or backend services.
- Ability to design efficient data models and optimize database queries.
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, sessions, tokens, and backend security best practices.
- Experience integrating third-party APIs and external services.
- Familiarity with Git, code reviews, debugging, and collaborative development workflows.
- Understanding of caching, queues, background jobs, logging, and performance optimization.
- Ability to troubleshoot production issues with confidence and structure.
Experience Level
Mid to senior level, typically 3+ years in PHP development or backend engineering roles.
Work Type
Full-time Remote
Benefits / Why Join Us
- Work remotely with global teams and international clients
- Long-term contract opportunities with stable workloads
- Competitive compensation based on skills and experience
- Flexible and remote-first work environment
- Opportunity to work on real products and business operations
- Grow your experience with fast-moving companies and modern teams
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