Senior Backend Engineer (Laravel)

Rightangled; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Rightangled in Dubai is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and build the next generation of our platform powering clinical and pharmacy operations.

You will own backend services end-to-end, mentor teammates, participate in architecture, and drive reliable, scalable systems. The role emphasizes Laravel, MySQL, Redis, AWS, and AI-enabled workflows.

Join a regulated healthcare environment, contribute to AI integrations, and help raise engineering standards across the company.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional backend development with production systems.
• At least 3 years of strong Laravel experience on live projects.
• Proficient in OOP, SOLID, design patterns and system design.
• Strong data modelling and scalability instincts.
• Experience with Shopify APIs, MySQL tuning, Redis and queue-based processing.
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Linux, Git, CI/CD and monitoring.
• Testing as a habit; CI/CD and reliability focus.
• Clear written communication and design defense.

Responsibilities

• Design backend services in Laravel from architecture to production.
• Develop core platform capabilities: data modelling, APIs, background jobs.
• Design secure, well-documented REST APIs.
• Build event-driven systems with queues and async processing.
• Optimize database performance and scalability.
• Write automated tests and improve release practices.
• Integrate third-party services including commerce and AI APIs.
• Review code and raise engineering standards.

Skills

Backend development

OOP

System design

Data modelling

REST APIs

Testing

Tools

Shopify APIs

Eloquent ORM

MySQL

Redis

Queues

AWS

Docker

Linux

Git

CI/CD

Job description

About the role

We're a digital healthcare company building the platform that powers our clinical and pharmacy operations. We're expanding that platform significantly this year, and we're looking for a senior backend engineer to help design and build its next generation.

You'll take ownership of backend services from initial architecture through deployment and long-term maintenance. You'll design scalable systems, implement new features, review code, improve application performance, and continuously reduce technical debt.

You'll regularly switch between multiple products and projects, helping teams deliver features quickly without compromising quality or maintainability. Beyond writing code, you'll participate in architecture discussions, mentor developers, review pull requests, and help shape the engineering standards followed across the company.

As AI continues to play an increasingly important role in our products, you'll also help build intelligent workflows, integrate AI services, and explore new ways of using modern language models to improve customer experiences and internal operations.

What you'll be doing

• Designing and building backend services in Laravel, from architecture through to production
• Working on core platform capabilities: data modelling, APIs, background processing, and integrations
• Designing secure, well-documented, versioned REST APIs
• Building event-driven and asynchronous systems with queues and background jobs
• Optimising database performance and application scalability
• Writing automated tests and helping improve our engineering and release practices
• Integrating third‑party services, including commerce, logistics, and AI/LLM APIs
• Reviewing code and helping raise the overall standard of the team

What we’re looking for

• 7+ years of professional backend development, with at least 3 years of strong Laravel experience in production systems you helped design — we care more about what you’ve built than the exact number of years
• Deep understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), SOLID principles, design patterns, and system design
• Strong data modelling and system design instincts, and the ability to reason about trade-offs
• Experience with Shopify APIs, Eloquent ORM optimisation, MySQL performance tuning, Redis, queue‑based systems, AWS infrastructure, and scalable REST APIs is essential
• Solid MySQL depth (indexing, query optimisation, performance under growth), plus Redis and queue‑based asynchronous processing
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Linux, Git, CI/CD, application monitoring, and performance optimization is essential
• Testing as a habit, you write tests, you expect CI to catch problems, and you take reliability seriously
• Working knowledge of AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch), enough to be self‑sufficient
• Clear written communication and the ability to document and defend design decisions

Nice to have

• Experience in a regulated domain (healthcare, fintech, or similar) where compliance and auditability are design inputs
• Multi‑tenant SaaS experience
• LLM integration work (Anthropic or OpenAI APIs), with an interest in evaluation and reliability rather than demos
• Shopify API experience
• Event‑driven architecture in production

Tech stack

PHP 8.x / Laravel (Horizon, Queues, Events, Scheduler) · MySQL · Redis · REST APIs · AWS · Docker · GitHub Actions · Anthropic & OpenAI APIs · Vue.js + Inertia on the frontend (this is a backend‑focused role; frontend fluency is welcome but not required)

The challenges you’ll be working on

As part of our engineering team, you’ll work on a variety of technical challenges, including:

• Designing backend systems capable of handling millions of requests.
• Building AI‑powered products and integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into real‑world workflows.
• Architecting and developing greenfield applications from concept to production.
• Scaling and optimising large Laravel codebases.
• Designing secure, maintainable, and high‑performance REST APIs.
• Building event‑driven and asynchronous systems using queues and background processing.
• Optimising database performance, caching strategies, and application scalability.
• Improving developer experience through automation, tooling, and engineering best practices.
• Building reliable cloud‑native applications on AWS.

We’re an equal‑opportunity employer. As a regulated healthcare business, the successful candidate will undergo a basic background check.