Senior PHP Engineer — Remote UK Backend & SOA Architect

Airalo; Glasgow; Remote; GBP 92,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-call rotation with standby fees + O

Rest & Recovery after night incidents

Shared load: weekday/weekend rotations

Job summary

Airalo is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to evolve our global platform serving 30M+ users. You will lead distributed systems, balance rapid innovation with stability, and apply architectural rigor across Laravel and Symfony in a remote UK setting.

Strong coaching, SOA movement, and cloud/delivery discipline are valued. You'll collaborate with Product and DevOps, drive high-quality, scalable services, and maintain system reliability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional backend development with PHP.
• 4+ years building enterprise apps in Laravel or Symfony.
• Mastery of distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• AI proficiency: using AI tools to aid development and validation.
• SQL and NoSQL performance tuning and transactional handling.
• Experience on AWS and containerized environments (Docker).
• Commitment to clean code, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.
• Fluent English and ability to explain trade-offs to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of high-performance distributed systems for global traffic.
• Develop and refine services to improve scalability and efficiency.
• Drive transition to SOA for modularity and resilience.
• Set code quality standards including SOLID, patterns, and testing.
• Coach mid-level engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Identify bottlenecks and apply advanced caching and DB strategies.
• Collaborate with Product and DevOps to translate requirements into roadmaps.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

Symfony

AWS

Docker

CI/CD

English

Job description

Airalo is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to evolve our global platform serving 30M+ users. You will lead distributed systems, balance rapid innovation with stability, and apply architectural rigor across Laravel and Symfony in a remote UK setting.

Strong coaching, SOA movement, and cloud/delivery discipline are valued. You'll collaborate with Product and DevOps, drive high-quality, scalable services, and maintain system reliability.