Senior PHP Backend Engineer — APIs, Laravel & Cloud

FOLEON B.V.; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working: 2 days in office + WFH

NS Business Card or up to €400/month

Pension program contributions

Learning budget: €500 yearly

25 holiday days + extra days off

Floating holidays for inclusivity

Work from abroad: 2x/yr up to 3 weeks

Office lunch contributions

Fitness support: up to €25/month

Lease a bike

Mental health support

Volunteer day

Employee recognition program

Job summary

FOLEON B.V. is hiring a senior back-end developer to help evolve a mature SaaS platform. You’ll design, build, test, and maintain back-end functionality using PHP and Node, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver customer-facing features.

You’ll work with Doctrine, relational databases, and modern PHP practices, with automated testing (PHPUnit) and CI/CD workflows. Hybrid work model with strong testing culture and scalable architecture emphasized.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional back-end development experience, with strong hands-on experience in PHP.
• Experience with modern PHP application development and frameworks; Laravel experience is a strong plus.
• Practical experience with Doctrine, relational databases, data modelling, and query optimization.
• Comfortable writing automated tests, especially with PHPUnit, and working in CI/CD-enabled development workflows.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, service boundaries, authentication, validation, error handling, and maintainable integration patterns.
• Familiarity with cloud-native delivery, containers, observability, and production operations is a plus, including experience with microservices architectures on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain back-end functionality across our platform.
• Work primarily with PHP and Node-based systems, collaborating with front-end and product teams.
• Develop robust APIs, maintainable services, and well-tested back-end features.
• Contribute to refactoring and modernization of existing systems including legacy components.
• Participate in code reviews, technical planning, and production support.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

Doctrine

REST APIs

CI/CD

Testing (PHPUnit)

Cloud/GCP

Kubernetes/AWS

Tools

Doctrine

CI/CD Tools

Docker

GCP

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

FOLEON B.V. is hiring a senior back-end developer to help evolve a mature SaaS platform. You’ll design, build, test, and maintain back-end functionality using PHP and Node, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver customer-facing features.

You’ll work with Doctrine, relational databases, and modern PHP practices, with automated testing (PHPUnit) and CI/CD workflows. Hybrid work model with strong testing culture and scalable architecture emphasized.