Senior PHP Backend Engineer

Coinspaid Enterprise; Colombia; Hybrid; COP 24,000,000 - 60,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Office option + relocation support

Flexible async environment

Course and language learning budget

Medical insurance or reimbursement

Mental health support

Team offsites and company events

Merch shop with rewards

Job summary

Coinspaid Dev, the engineering brand of Coinspaid, is seeking a senior PHP backend engineer to design and scale services across distributed systems. You will work with cross-functional teams to implement features on PHP/MySQL stacks, contribute to architecture discussions, and uphold high code quality.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in OO PHP, Laravel, and modern tooling; familiarity with Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes, and automated testing is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of OO PHP development and modern PHP tools.
• Strong PHP skills with Laravel framework.
• Experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL and transactions.
• DDD practices: bounded contexts, aggregates, domain events.
• Kafka or similar message brokers in production.
• Docker/Docker Compose and Kubernetes experience.
• Good English (B1+) and Russian.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, design solutions, and deliver features
• Design, develop, and maintain backend systems using PHP and MySQL(or similar), ensuring they are scalable and maintainable
• Implement and optimize complex features with a focus on clean, reusable, and efficient code
• Write unit tests to ensure the reliability and scalability of code
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and ensure adherence to best practices in software development
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance, and security
• Share on-call duties with the team to ensure smooth operations of the systems in production
• Stay updated with new technologies and trends, and introduce them where appropriate to enhance system performance and maintainability

Skills

PHP

Laravel

MySQL/PostgreSQL

DDD concepts

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Unit testing

Security best practices

English (B1+) and Russian

Tools

Docker

Docker Compose

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Apache Kafka

Job description

Coinspaid Dev is the engineering brand behind the technology, infrastructure, and R&D expertise built within Coinspaid. With more than 120 engineersand over 11 years of industry experience, Coinspaid Dev brings together software engineering, infrastructure, security and R&D teams with experience building distributed systems and blockchain infrastructure operating across more than 20 blockchain networks. Coinspaid Dev emerges as an independent engineering brand with a straightforward mission: to advance blockchain infrastructure engineering and contribute practical expertise back to the industry. The structure is new. The experience behind it is not.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional and cross-domain teams to gather requirements, design solutions, and deliver features
• Design, develop, and maintain backend systems using PHP and MySQL(or similar), ensuring they are scalable and maintainable
• Implement and optimize complex features with a focus on clean, reusable, and efficient code
• Write unit tests to ensure the reliability and scalability of code
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and ensure adherence to best practices in software development
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance, and security
• Share on-call duties with the team to ensure smooth operations of the systems in production
• Stay updated with new technologies and trends, and introduce them where appropriate to enhance system performance and maintainability

Requirements:

• Experience (5+ years) in object-oriented PHP and modern PHP tools
• Software design principles (SOLID, KISS, DRY) and layered architecture
• Applied DDD practices: bounded contexts, aggregates, domain events
• Good knowledge of the latest versions of Laravel framework
• Strong understanding of relational databases like MySQL/PostgreSQL including transaction management
• Experience in database query optimization, analysing deadlocks and db performance
• Message-driven services in production with Apache Kafka or a comparable broker
• Handling money in application code: exact arithmetic, explicit rounding rules, multi-currency precision, idempotent money-moving operations
• Security best practices
• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana or similar)
• Working with Docker/Docker Compose/Kubernetes on a daily basis
• Good level of spoken and written English (B1+) and Russian

Nice to have:

• Experience with Go
• Fintech, payments, or crypto domain experience
• High-load

Why joinCryptoProcessing byCoinspaid

You’ll be joining a company that is actively shaping its space – with enough scale to matter and enough room to make an impact.

At Coinspaid, people are expected to think, contribute, and take ownership – and are supported in doing so.

We focus on flexibility, wellbeing, and long-term growth – without overcomplicating how benefits work.

Flexible Benefits

Benefit Bar – up to €230/monthA flexible monthly budget you can use for what matters most to you – from sports and mental health to coworking, home office, or medical-related expenses.

Work & Flexibility

• Fully remote work from almost anywhere
• Optional offices and relocation support
• Flexible, async-friendly environment

Growth & Learning

• Budget for courses, certifications, and professional development
• Language learning support
• Cross-team learning and knowledge sharing

Wellbeing & Support

• Medical insurance or reimbursement depending on location
• Access to mental health support
• Financial support for important life events

Extras

• Merch shop with rewards system
• Team offsites and company events

To learn more please visit: https://coinspaid.com/about-us/ & https://coinspaid.com/careers/