PHP Engineer

Jobgether; Ireland; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote within Europe

B2B contractor arrangement (12 months)

Remote-friendly culture

Wellness programs

Employee recognition program

Professional development opportunities

International teammates

Occasional travel opportunities

Inclusive environment

Job summary

Jobgether is partnering with a company to hire a PHP Engineer based in Ireland for a fully remote role. You will maintain a mature Laravel application, contribute to backend and frontend work, and help modernize the platform toward a cloud-based solution.

You’ll join a pragmatic, full-stack–minded team focused on quality, ownership, and continuous improvement, with opportunities to optimize testing, observability, and deployment practices across regions.

Qualifications

• Significant professional experience building/maintaining production PHP applications.
• Strong hands-on experience with Laravel, including safe upgrades.
• Frontend contribution with JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
• Ability to evolve mature codebases safely without rewrites.
• Strong debugging, incident response, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Relational databases and SQL understanding.
• Git, CI/CD workflows, automated testing, and disciplined development.
• Ability to work independently and with platform/DevOps teams.
• English at B2 level or above; strong communication.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and improve production features across PHP/Laravel backend and frontend.
• Modernize the application while ensuring safe, sustainable changes.
• Keep PHP, Laravel, and dependencies current with safe upgrades.
• Improve automated testing, observability, tooling, CI, and deployment automation.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents through structured debugging.
• Collaborate on cloud migration with platform/DevOps teams.
• Document system behavior, dependencies, and runbooks.
• Work autonomously on priorities and deliver reliable solutions.
• Provide progress updates on priorities, risks, and technical developments.
• Collaborate with distributed teams across Europe, the US, S. America, and Asia; travel occasionally.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

JavaScript

SQL

CI/CD

Git

Testing

Debugging

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

React

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a PHP Engineer based in Ireland.

Join a fully remote engineering team working on a mature internal platform that supports the creation and publication of intelligence content.

You’ll help maintain and modernize a production Laravel application while contributing across both backend and frontend technologies.

The role combines hands‑on development with opportunities to improve testing, observability, tooling, and deployment practices.

You’ll play an important part in gradually moving an established system toward a modern cloud platform.

With significant autonomy, you’ll have the opportunity to make thoughtful improvements while keeping a dependable production environment running smoothly.

You’ll collaborate closely with platform and DevOps specialists as well as distributed colleagues across multiple regions.

This role is well suited to a pragmatic, full‑stack‑minded engineer who values quality, ownership, and methodical modernization.

Accountabilities

• Develop, maintain, and improve production features across the PHP/Laravel backend and JavaScript, CSS, and HTML frontend.
• Maintain and modernize the application while ensuring changes are introduced safely and sustainably.
• Keep PHP, Laravel, and other application dependencies current, including managing safe framework and version upgrades.
• Improve automated testing, observability, developer tooling, CI, and deployment automation to support reliable software delivery.
• Investigate, triage, and resolve production incidents, defects, and technical issues through structured debugging and root‑cause analysis.
• Contribute to the modernization and migration of the application onto a cloud platform in collaboration with platform and DevOps teams.
• Document system behavior, dependencies, operational procedures, and runbooks to improve knowledge sharing and maintainability.
• Work autonomously on assigned priorities while taking ownership of delivering reliable technical solutions.
• Provide regular updates on progress, priorities, risks, and technical developments.
• Collaborate with distributed teams across Europe, the United States, South America, and Asia while adapting effectively to diverse professional and cultural environments.
• Participate in occasional travel as required by the role.

Requirements:

• Significant professional experience building and maintaining production PHP applications and systems.
• Strong hands‑on experience with the Laravel framework, including safe framework and dependency upgrades.
• Working knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, with the ability to contribute to an established frontend.
• Demonstrated ability to improve and evolve mature codebases safely rather than relying on complete rewrites.
• Strong debugging, incident‑response, troubleshooting, and root‑cause analysis capabilities.
• Solid understanding of relational databases and SQL.
• Strong experience with Git, CI/CD workflows, automated testing, and disciplined software development practices.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of assigned work, and collaborate effectively with platform and DevOps specialists.
• Professional written and spoken English at B2 level or above.
• Experience with system migration or modernization projects is desirable.
• Familiarity with Kafka or other message queues, S3 or similar object storage, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS is an advantage.
• Experience with security hardening and dependency management is beneficial.
• Exposure to cybersecurity threat intelligence, data pipelines, or high‑volume data ingestion systems is a plus.
• React experience is desirable and may provide opportunities to contribute to additional frontend platforms.
• Comfort using AI‑assisted coding tools such as Claude or Codex is advantageous.
• Strong communication, collaboration, reliability, and problem‑solving skills.

Benefits:

• Market‑competitive compensation.
• Fully remote working opportunity within Europe.
• B2B contractor arrangement with a 12‑month contract basis.
• Remote‑friendly and collaborative working culture.
• Wellness programs designed to support employee wellbeing.
• Employee recognition program.
• Access to professional development and learning opportunities.Opportunity to work on meaningful technology supporting cybersecurity intelligence operations.
• Collaboration with an international, geographically distributed engineering and technology community.
• Occasional travel opportunities as part of the role.
• Inclusive environment focused on people, customers, innovation, openness, and integrity.

How Jobgether works:

We use an AI‑powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top‑fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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