PHP Engineer

Accountabilities

• Develop, maintain, and improve production features across the PHP/Laravel backend and JavaScript, CSS, and HTML frontend.


• Maintain and modernize the application while ensuring changes are introduced safely and sustainably.


• Keep PHP, Laravel, and other application dependencies current, including managing safe framework and version upgrades.


• Improve automated testing, observability, developer tooling, CI, and deployment automation to support reliable software delivery.


• Investigate, triage, and resolve production incidents, defects, and technical issues through structured debugging and root-cause analysis.


• Contribute to the modernization and migration of the application onto a cloud platform in collaboration with platform and DevOps teams.


• Document system behavior, dependencies, operational procedures, and runbooks to improve knowledge sharing and maintainability.


• Work autonomously on assigned priorities while taking ownership of delivering reliable technical solutions.


• Provide regular updates on progress, priorities, risks, and technical developments.


• Collaborate with distributed teams across Europe, the United States, South America, and Asia while adapting effectively to diverse professional and cultural environments.


• Participate in occasional travel as required by the role.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience building and maintaining production PHP applications and systems.


• Strong hands-on experience with the Laravel framework, including safe framework and dependency upgrades.


• Working knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, with the ability to contribute to an established frontend.


• Demonstrated ability to improve and evolve mature codebases safely rather than relying on complete rewrites.


• Strong debugging, incident-response, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis capabilities.


• Solid understanding of relational databases and SQL.


• Strong experience with Git, CI/CD workflows, automated testing, and disciplined software development practices.


• Ability to work independently, take ownership of assigned work, and collaborate effectively with platform and DevOps specialists.


• Professional written and spoken English at B2 level or above.


• Experience with system migration or modernization projects is desirable.


• Familiarity with Kafka or other message queues, S3 or similar object storage, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS is an advantage.


• Experience with security hardening and dependency management is beneficial.


• Exposure to cybersecurity threat intelligence, data pipelines, or high-volume data ingestion systems is a plus.


• React experience is desirable and may provide opportunities to contribute to additional frontend platforms.


• Comfort using AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude or Codex is advantageous.


• Strong communication, collaboration, reliability, and problem-solving skills.

• Market-competitive compensation.


• Fully remote working opportunity within Europe.


• B2B contractor arrangement with a 12-month contract basis.


• Remote-friendly and collaborative working culture.


• Wellness programs designed to support employee wellbeing.


• Employee recognition program.


• Access to professional development and learning opportunities.


• Opportunity to work on meaningful technology supporting cybersecurity intelligence operations.


• Collaboration with an international, geographically distributed engineering and technology community.


• Occasional travel opportunities as part of the role.


• Inclusive environment focused on people, customers, innovation, openness, and integrity.

This listing is from Lever. View original listing ↗