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Senior Backend Engineer (Laravel)

Rightangled
Dubai, UAE
Full Time
Senior
1 weeks ago
LaravelPHPMySQLRedisAWSDocker
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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 looking for a senior backend engineer to help design and build its next generation.

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
  • 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

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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