Senior Software Developer

Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer (PHP/Laravel) who can balance legacy support with modern engineering to build robust, scalable, and efficient applications.

Stack

• Backend: Laravel 5.x (legacy), Laravel 12, PHP 7.4 & 8.2+
• Data: Amazon DocumentDB (MongoDB), OpenSearch, Redis
• Infra: AWS S3, Redis queues, feature flags, CI/CD
• Frontend touchpoints: AngularJS 1.6 (light maintenance)

What You’ll Do

• Deliver features across multiple repos (legacy + microservices).
• Design clean, versioned APIs with OpenAPI specs.
• Optimize DocumentDB queries, indexes, and caching.
• Tune OpenSearch indexes for zero-downtime reindexing.
• Implement observability: logs, metrics, tracing.
• Secure the platform (JWT/Passport, OWASP best practices).
• Modernize legacy apps incrementally.
• Mentor peers and uphold coding standards (PSR-12, SOLID)

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 6+ years professional PHP; 4+ years Laravel. Strong with Laravel (lates).
• Deep PHP 8.x knowledge, while pragmatic about legacy compatibility (polyfills, Str helpers, guards).
• Strong MongoDB/DocumentDB experience: indexes, TTL, upserts, aggregation basics; schema validation at app level.
• Hands-on with OpenSearch/Elasticsearch: mappings, analyzers, reindex strategies, query performance.
• Advanced API engineering: REST versioning, idempotency, pagination, error taxonomy, rate limiting.
• Reliability mindset: retries/backoff, circuit breakers, timeouts, bulk/async processing, queues.
• Observability: structured logs, metrics, traces; able to diagnose p95/p99 regressions.
• Security: CSRF/CORS, injection prevention, IDOR, mass assignment, policy/gate enforcement.
• Testing/tooling: PHPUnit, Larastan/PHPStan, Laravel Pint; disciplined CI/CD.
• i18n awareness: Arabic/English, RTL, safe escaping for HTML/XML/feeds.
• AWS S3 experience (namespacing, encryption, presigned flows).

Nice to Have

• ATS/job feed ecosystems and third-party integrations.
• Payments (Stripe/PayPal) and carrier billing knowledge.
• Queue ops with Horizon and advanced caching strategies (tagged cache, invalidation).
• Experience with async job processing and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
• Basic AngularJS 1.6 maintenance for admin views.

How We Work

• Opinionated guidelines: PSR-12, SOLID, small PRs, strong typing, thin controllers.
• Golden rules: fail fast in dev/test; fail safe in prod; security first; ship observability with features.
• Collaboration: open knowledge sharing through docs, runbooks, and reviews.
• Branching: main, develop, feature/hotfix; CI gates (Pint, Larastan/PHPStan, PHPUnit, OpenAPI, audit).

Location

• Remote (timezone UTC+4).Role & responsibilities