Senior Laravel Backend-Driven Full-Stack Engineer

Manila Recruitment; Taguig; On-site; PHP 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Manila Recruitment seeks a Senior Full Stack Developer to build backend-led capabilities for our Flights and Trains platform. The role is roughly 70% backend and 30% frontend, with PHP/Laravel and React as core technologies.

You will own substantial work from problem definition through production and explain engineering choices to stakeholders. Responsibilities include designing REST APIs, maintaining databases, and delivering reliable software in a Kubernetes/AWS environment.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven backend services or product features in PHP/Laravel.
• Practical React experience for a secondary frontend scope.
• Strong relational DB fundamentals and ORM behavior.
• Production REST APIs, authentication and secure web practices.
• Experience designing for scale, resilience and HA.
• Ability to surface ambiguity and seek alignment independently.
• Excellent written and spoken English for international collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Build new product features and third‑party integrations across backend and frontend.
• Develop and maintain PHP/Laravel services and React interfaces.
• Design and manage production REST APIs and secure integrations.
• Develop and optimize relational databases, including schema changes and indexing.
• Create and maintain automated tests to support reliable delivery.
• Diagnose defects, improve reliability and address technical debt.
• Refine user stories and tickets for clear outcomes and release risks.
• Work with event buses in an event‑driven architecture.
• Contribute to a hybrid ecosystem of monoliths and microservices on Kubernetes in AWS.
• Apply Domain‑Driven Design with clear domain separation and low coupling.

Skills

PHP/Laravel

React

REST APIs

SQL & relational DBs

Automated testing

Code reviews

Domain‑Driven Design

Event-driven concepts

High availability

Independent work

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

Manila Recruitment seeks a Senior Full Stack Developer to build backend-led capabilities for our Flights and Trains platform. The role is roughly 70% backend and 30% frontend, with PHP/Laravel and React as core technologies.

You will own substantial work from problem definition through production and explain engineering choices to stakeholders. Responsibilities include designing REST APIs, maintaining databases, and delivering reliable software in a Kubernetes/AWS environment.