Senior PHP Backend Engineer (CodeIgniter/Laravel)

FPT Software Philippines Corporation; Cebu City; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

FPT Software Philippines Corporation is seeking an experienced PHP backend developer to maintain and extend customer-facing APIs and admin CMS components. The role focuses on CI3 and Laravel stacks, RESTful design, and cloud-based deployment across containerized runtimes.

You will build batch processing, serverless functions, and data pipelines, while collaborating with offshore teams and mobile developers to deliver stable CMS releases and reliable services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend development with PHP and OOP.
• Hands-on CodeIgniter CI3 including controllers, models, libraries, hooks and CI-style queries.
• Experience with Laravel 6 and Laravel 9.
• REST API design and implementation.
• Cloud platform operations and batch/cron processing.
• Relational database design and optimization.
• Legacy maintenance mindset and debugging skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain customer-facing mobile backend API on CI3/PHP 8.x.
• Build and schedule batch and cron jobs for data preparation and delivery.
• Enhance operator CMS on Laravel 6/7/9 stack and CMS screens.
• Develop and operate promotion APIs on Laravel 9 PHP 8.x in container-based runtimes.
• Maintain reporting batches and export to cloud storage.
• Write serverless functions in PHP/Python for data sync and notifications.
• Support serverless container jobs written in TypeScript/Node.
• Design and tune relational schemas, queries, and indexes.
• Diagnose production incidents and coordinate with client/offshore teams.
• Maintain unit tests and Cypress/TypeScript end-to-end suite.
• Peer reviews, pull requests, and release coordination.
• Communicate with client, offshore teams, and mobile developers.

Skills

PHP

CI3

CodeIgniter

Laravel

REST API

Cloud operations

Batch processing

Relational DB

Legacy maintenance

Job description

FPT Software Philippines Corporation is seeking an experienced PHP backend developer to maintain and extend customer-facing APIs and admin CMS components. The role focuses on CI3 and Laravel stacks, RESTful design, and cloud-based deployment across containerized runtimes.

You will build batch processing, serverless functions, and data pipelines, while collaborating with offshore teams and mobile developers to deliver stable CMS releases and reliable services.