Senior Backend Engineer (Laravel)
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About the Role
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,.
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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
- At least 3 years of strong Laravel experience in production systems
- Deep understanding of OOP, SOLID principles, design patterns, and system design
- 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)
- Experience with AWS, Docker, Linux, Git, CI/CD, application monitoring, and performance optimization
- Testing as a habit
- Clear written communication and ability to document and defend design decisions
Full Job Posting
About the role
- We're a digital healthcare company building the platform that powers our clinical and pharmacy operations.
- 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 plays an increasingly important role, you'll 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
What we're looking for
- 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
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