Senior PHP & Full-Stack Engineer — Ownership, APIs & Modernization

Niu - Collaboritve Community; Kuwait City; On-site; KWD 15,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Niu - Collaboritve Community in Kuwait City, Kuwait seeks a Senior PHP / Full-Stack Developer to own the existing software, maintain a CodeIgniter application, and support modernization efforts. The role requires hands-on work with databases, APIs, and AI-assisted coding tools, on-site full-time.

You will collaborate with management to translate business needs into reliable software, solve complex problems, and ensure secure, scalable solutions while contributing to documentation and deployment

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining production PHP/CodeIgniter applications.
• Ability to build and maintain REST APIs and database queries.
• Familiarity with Git workflows and deployment processes.
• Experience using AI coding tools and verifying generated code.

Responsibilities

• Take over the existing codebase and understand architecture, dependencies, and deployment.
• Investigate and fix bugs; improve stability and performance.
• Build and maintain features, APIs, and integrations.
• Refactor for code quality and secure coding practices; implement tests.

Skills

PHP

CodeIgniter

JavaScript

HTML

CSS

SQL

REST APIs

Git

AI-assisted development

Job description

Niu - Collaboritve Community in Kuwait City, Kuwait seeks a Senior PHP / Full-Stack Developer to own the existing software, maintain a CodeIgniter application, and support modernization efforts. The role requires hands-on work with databases, APIs, and AI-assisted coding tools, on-site full-time.

You will collaborate with management to translate business needs into reliable software, solve complex problems, and ensure secure, scalable solutions while contributing to documentation and deployment