Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Laravel + Next.js) - Remote

Jobgether; Ireland; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent contract

Fully remote role with worldwide scope

Enterprise-scale projects

AI-powered product development

International clients

Technical leadership opportunities

Professional development

Collaborative engineering culture

Job summary

Jobgether is listing a Senior Software Engineer position based in Ireland. You will work across the stack, building features with Laravel backend and Next.js frontend, while migrating MongoDB to PostgreSQL and optimizing performance.

You will collaborate with DevOps on Docker-based infrastructure, CI/CD, and cloud operations. The role emphasizes ownership of features, architectural input, and mentoring junior engineers within a global client environment.

Qualifications

• At least five years of professional software development experience.
• Strong expertise in Laravel and PHP, including backend services and API development.
• Solid experience with Next.js and React.js, along with TypeScript and JavaScript.
• Practical experience working with PostgreSQL and optimizing database performance.
• Good understanding of MongoDB and experience working with different database technologies.
• Experience designing, building, and consuming REST APIs and integrating third-party services.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and working in Linux server environments.
• Understanding of CI/CD workflows, version control with Git, and deployment processes.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience maintaining and improving applications already running in production.
• Ability to quickly understand large codebases and work effectively within established architectures.
• Familiarity with web server technologies such as Nginx and infrastructure tools such as Cloudflare.
• Good communication skills, teamwork, and the ability to contribute to technical discussions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain new features for a large-scale production web application.
• Work confidently within an existing codebase, understanding its architecture and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Build, maintain, and optimize backend services and REST APIs using Laravel and PHP.
• Develop responsive frontend features using Next.js, React.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Tailwind CSS.
• Complete the migration of existing MongoDB components to PostgreSQL while maintaining data integrity and application reliability.
• Optimize PostgreSQL queries, database structures, and overall application performance.
• Integrate and maintain third-party APIs, including payment gateways, ERP systems, and other external services where required.
• Manage background jobs, queues, cron jobs, scheduled tasks, and workers to ensure reliable processing.
• Collaborate with the DevOps engineer to improve Docker-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and cloud operations.
• Troubleshoot production issues, identify root causes, and implement sustainable solutions.
• Improve application scalability, security, stability, and maintainability.
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical planning, and code reviews.
• Support and mentor junior developers when needed, contributing to a collaborative engineering culture.

Skills

Laravel & PHP

Next.js/React/TS

PostgreSQL

API design

Code reviews

Production support

Mentoring

Tools

Docker

Git

Nginx

Cloudflare

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Redis

RabbitMQ

WebSockets

Job description

Jobgether is listing a Senior Software Engineer position based in Ireland. You will work across the stack, building features with Laravel backend and Next.js frontend, while migrating MongoDB to PostgreSQL and optimizing performance.

You will collaborate with DevOps on Docker-based infrastructure, CI/CD, and cloud operations. The role emphasizes ownership of features, architectural input, and mentoring junior engineers within a global client environment.