Senior Backend Engineer (Laravel)
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About the Role
We are looking for a senior backend engineer to design and build the next generation of our digital healthcare platform. You will own backend services from architecture to deployment, mentor developers, and integrate AI services.
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Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services in Laravel, from architecture through to production
- Work on core platform capabilities: data modelling, APIs, background processing, and integrations
- Design secure, well documented, versioned REST APIs
- Build event driven and asynchronous systems with queues and background jobs
- Optimise database performance and application scalability
- Write automated tests and help improve engineering and release practices
- Integrate third party services, including commerce, logistics, and AI/LLM APIs
- Review code and help raise the overall standard of the team
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional backend development, with at least 3 years of strong Laravel experience in production systems
- Deep understanding of Object Oriented Programming (OOP), SOLID principles, design patterns, and system design
- Strong data modelling and system design instincts
- Experience with Shopify APIs, Eloquent ORM optimisation, MySQL performance tuning, Redis, queue based systems, AWS infrastructure, and scalable REST APIs
- Solid MySQL depth (indexing, query optimisation, performance under growth), plus Redis and queue based asynchronous processing
- Experience with AWS, Docker, Linux, Git, CI/CD, application monitoring, and performance optimization
- Testing as a habit, you write tests, you expect CI to catch problems
- Working knowledge of AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch)
- Clear written communication and ability to document and defend design decisions
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About The Role
- We're a digital healthcare company building the platform that powers our clinical and pharmacy operations.
- We're expanding that platform significantly this year, and we're looking for a senior backend engineer to help design and build its next generation.
- You'll take ownership of backend services from initial architecture through deployment and long term maintenance.
- You'll design scalable systems, implement new features, review code, improve application performance, and continuously reduce technical debt.
- You'll regularly switch between multiple products and projects, helping teams deliver features quickly without compromising quality or maintainability.
- Beyond writing code, you'll participate in architecture discussions, mentor developers, review pull requests, and help shape engineering standards.
- As AI continues to play an increasingly important role, you'll also help build intelligent workflows, integrate AI services, and explore new ways of using modern language models.
What You'll Be Doing
- Designing and building backend services in Laravel, from architecture through to production
- Working on core platform capabilities: data modelling, APIs, background processing, and integrations
- Designing secure, well documented, versioned REST APIs
- Building event driven and asynchronous systems with queues and background jobs
- Optimising database performance and application scalability
- Writing automated tests and helping improve our engineering and release practices
- Integrating third party services, including commerce, logistics, and AI/LLM APIs
- Reviewing code and helping raise the overall standard of the team
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional backend development, with at least 3 years of strong Laravel experience in production systems you helped design
- Deep understanding of Object Oriented Programming (OOP), SOLID principles, design patterns, and system design
- Strong data modelling and system design instincts, and the ability to reason about trade offs
- Experience with Shopify APIs, Eloquent ORM optimisation, MySQL performance tuning, Redis, queue based systems, AWS infrastructure, and scalable REST APIs is essential
- Solid MySQL depth (indexing, query optimisation, performance under growth), plus Redis and queue based asynchronous processing
- Experience with AWS, Docker, Linux, Git, CI/CD, application monitoring, and performance optimization is essential
- Testing as a habit, you write tests, you expect CI to catch problems, and you take reliability seriously
- Working knowledge of AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch), enough to be self sufficient
- Clear written communication and the ability to document and defend design decisions
Nice to have
- Experience in a regulated domain (healthcare, fintech, or similar) where compliance and auditability are design inputs
- Multi tenant SaaS experience
- LLM integration work (Anthropic or OpenAI APIs), with an interest in evaluation and reliability rather than demos
- Shopify API experience
- Event driven architecture in production
Tech stack
- PHP 8.x / Laravel (Horizon, Queues, Events, Scheduler)
- MySQL
- Redis
- REST APIs
- AWS
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Anthropic & OpenAI APIs
- Vue.js + Inertia on the frontend (backend focused role)
The challenges you'll be working on
- Designing backend systems capable of handling millions of requests
- Building AI powered products and integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into real world workflows
- Architecting and developing greenfield applications from concept to production
- Scaling and optimising large Laravel codebases
- Designing secure, maintainable, and high performance REST APIs
- Building event driven and asynchronous systems using queues and background processing
- Optimising database performance, caching strategies, and application scalability
- Improving developer experience through automation, tooling, and engineering best practices
- Building reliable cloud native applications on AWS
Benefits
- We're an equal opportunity employer.
- As a regulated healthcare business, the successful candidate will undergo a basic background check.
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