Senior PHP Developer (Middle-Strong or Senior)
Senior PHP Developer (Middle-Strong or Senior)
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Position: Senior PHP Developer (Middle-Strong or Senior)
Location: Remote Full-time B2B (GMT 1 GMT 3)
English and Ukrainian (or Russian) is a must.
About the Company
Our clients company is a SaaS platform specializing in post-purchase analytics and customer experience for e-commerce businesses. They are stable with their legacy platform in operation while also building a new flexible architecture for scaling.
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Senior PHP Developer to help continue the development and evolution of the platform. Youll spend 70% of your time building the new platform and 30% maintaining the legacy platform.
Responsibilities
70% Develop the new platform (Laravel 12.1 Google Cloud Run PostgreSQL Pub/Sub modular app-store architecture).
30% Maintain and evolve the legacy platform (Laravel 8 PHP 7.4 Google Compute Engine MySQL Redis queues).
Fix bugs and prevent regressions ensuring SLA fixes.
End-to-end development of new features.
Write unit/feature tests to cover your code.
Perform code reviews; apply DDD thinking.
Optimize performance write critical parts in pure PHP or Symfony if needed.
Improve architecture and maintain clean code (PSR readability).
Tech Stack
Core: PHP 8.x Laravel 12/8 Symfony (on-demand) DDD principles.
Infra: Google Cloud Run / Compute Engine Pub/Sub Redis Docker.
DB: PostgreSQL (new) MySQL 5.7 (legacy).
Integrations: Stripe/Paddle Google Gemini external REST/GraphQL APIs.
Tools: GitHub ClickUp AI assistants (Cursor etc.).
Requirements
5 years of professional PHP development experience.
Strong experience with Laravel 12 (or 10); experience with writing packages and working with queues (Horizon/Queues Google Pub/Sub).
Experience supporting projects on Laravel 8.
Familiarity with writing unit/integration tests (PHPUnit Pest).
Solid understanding of DDD PSR and writing readable code.
Self-organization responsibility and a results-oriented approach without micromanagement.
Fluent in Russian (team language) and good working knowledge of English (for documentation and communication).
Nice-to-Have Skills
Experience with Google Cloud (Run Pub/Sub IAM Monitoring/Logging).
Experience optimizing high-load projects profiling PHP.
Familiarity with payment systems like Stripe or Paddle.
Experience with Symfony pure PHP or NodeJS/Go/Rust for high-performance services.
Shopify API experience.
Understanding of eCommerce basics.
NodeJS experience for performance-critical tasks.
Experience with modular architectures (app-store modules).
LLM/AI integration experience.
Performance optimization and profiling (p95/p99).
What We Offer
Fully remote work within a comfortable time zone (GMT 1 5 preferred).
A small friendly team with no bureaucracy and low turnover.
21 days of paid vacation.
Direct influence on the product transparent processes and minimal meetings.
Collaborative planning with the founder: quick decision-making and the opportunity to propose and implement your ideas.
Employment Type
Full Time
