Senior PHP Backend Engineer – Remote (Argentina)

SportsTechJobs; Argentina; Remote; ARS 92,241,000 - 138,361,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

OSDE 410

English lessons

Remote-friendly work from Argentina

40% discount on Fever experiences

Job summary

Fever is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (PHP) to own backend services powering live experiences, payments, and reconciliation at scale. You will design, implement and evolve high-performance PHP 8+ services, work with microservices, and ensure robust observability in a distributed, event-driven environment.

You will partner with infra, product, and frontend teams in a remote-friendly Argentina setup, contribute to API design, and help drive deployments via CI/CD.

Qualifications

• Robust experience building backend systems, especially using PHP 8+.
• Solid experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs at scale.
• Deep understanding of MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Strong knowledge of microservices, distributed systems, concurrency and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines and delivering software from dev to production.
• Good technical judgment for balancing speed and stability.
• Experience with testing and code quality tools (PHPUnit, PHPStan, SonarCloud).
• Excellent command of Git and collaborative development.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend APIs and services for critical business domains (payments, reconciliation, fiscal automation, logistics).
• Work on high-concurrency systems focusing on stability, resiliency, and traceability.
• Integrate external services with complex and mission-critical logic.
• Participate in architectural decisions to ensure scalability and maintainability.
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and deployment workflows.
• Use Docker for local and production environments, and AWS services (SQS, Lambdas, CloudWatch, SNS, S3) for distributed infrastructure.
• Promote engineering excellence through clean code, testing and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate in an agile, cross-functional squad with backend, infra, QA and product.

Skills

PHP 8+

RESTful APIs

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Microservices

Docker

AWS

CI/CD

Testing

Git

English

Tools

Docker

AWS

CI/CD tools

Swagger/OpenAPI

Job description

Fever is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (PHP) to own backend services powering live experiences, payments, and reconciliation at scale. You will design, implement and evolve high-performance PHP 8+ services, work with microservices, and ensure robust observability in a distributed, event-driven environment.

You will partner with infra, product, and frontend teams in a remote-friendly Argentina setup, contribute to API design, and help drive deployments via CI/CD.