Senior PHP/Laravel Backend Engineer for Health AI Platform

LaraBench; United States; À distance; USD 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Housecall, a healthcare tech startup, seeks a Senior Backend Software Engineer with deep PHP/Laravel experience to lead the design and evolution of core platform services. You will partner with product, frontend, and mobile engineers to deliver critical features, improve performance, and drive best practices.

You will own backend initiatives end-to-end, design robust REST APIs, and ensure data integrity across MySQL/PostgreSQL while mentoring colleagues and shaping engineering standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production backend systems, including 3+ years with PHP and Laravel.
• Proven experience designing scalable backend architectures.
• Strong relational database expertise (PostgreSQL/MySQL): schema design, indexing, query plans, migrations, and performance tuning.
• Strong API design experience (versioning, authentication/authorization, pagination, error handling, rate limiting).
• Strong testing mindset and execution (unit/feature/integration; PHPUnit/Pest) and comfort improving legacy code safely.
• Experience with production operations: debugging, monitoring, incident response, and postmortems.
• Strong communication and ability to lead technical discussions in a remote, cross-functional team.

Responsabilités

• Own and lead backend initiatives end-to-end: discovery, technical design, delivery, rollout, and iteration.
• Architect, build, and maintain backend services and REST APIs using Laravel/PHP.
• Drive system performance and production reliability (monitoring, incident response, root-cause fixes).
• Embed security into development with secure coding practices, least-privilege access, secrets handling, audit logging, encryption where appropriate. Support evidence collection for audits (policies, controls, change history, traceability)
• Design and evolve data models; manage migrations and ensure data integrity for MySQL and other database technologies.
• Establish and uplift engineering standards: code quality, testing strategy, API conventions, observability, and security practices.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to translate product requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, reviews, and guidance on architecture and best practices.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation (APIs, runbooks, architectural decision records).

Connaissances

PHP

Laravel

Backend architecture

API design

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Testing

CI/CD

Git

Security

Outils

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Monitoring

Description du poste

Housecall, a healthcare tech startup, seeks a Senior Backend Software Engineer with deep PHP/Laravel experience to lead the design and evolution of core platform services. You will partner with product, frontend, and mobile engineers to deliver critical features, improve performance, and drive best practices.

You will own backend initiatives end-to-end, design robust REST APIs, and ensure data integrity across MySQL/PostgreSQL while mentoring colleagues and shaping engineering standards.