Backend Engineer - Statements System

Caliberly; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company in Dubai is seeking a skilled Backend Engineer to modernize their financial reporting application. The ideal candidate will have experience in PHP development, database migrations, and cloud systems, particularly AWS. You will be responsible for maintaining the backend, leading the database migration from SQLite to PostgreSQL, and building APIs for external services. Join a focused team to play a critical role in enhancing the Statements System.

Qualifications

• Experience with backend logic and data migrations.
• Familiarity with building APIs and cloud systems.
• Proven ability to refactor legacy code.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and extend the PHP backend of the Statements System.
• Lead the migration from SQLite to PostgreSQL.
• Build and expose REST APIs to external services.
• Refactor legacy code to a modern structure.
• Collaborate with DevOps to migrate infrastructure to AWS.
• Ensure data consistency, system stability, and performance.

Skills

PHP backend development

Data migration

Building REST APIs

Cloud deployment (AWS)

Database management (PostgreSQL)

Job description

About the job Backend Engineer - Statements System

Overview

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join a small, focused team modernizing and maintaining our Statements System, a financial reporting application written in PHP. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with backend logic, handling data migrations, building APIs, and deploying systems to the cloud. Youll play a critical part in migrating our database from SQLite to PostgreSQL, integrating with a payments gateway, and helping transition the system to AWS.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and extend the PHP backend of the Statements System.
• Lead the migration from SQLite to PostgreSQL.
• Build and expose REST APIs to external services (e.g., payments gateway).
• Refactor legacy code to modern, testable structure.
• Collaborate with DevOps to migrate infrastructure to AWS.
• Ensure data consistency, system stability, and performance.