Senior PHP Backend Engineer — Fintech-Scale, Remote

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, 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.