Senior PHP Developer

Talentgrator
Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for an experienced Senior PHP Developer to join our team and take ownership of critical components of a large-scale, high-load platform processing tens of thousands of requests per second and terabytes of data daily. Our core product is a powerful enterprise monolith with a modular architecture. As the business continues to grow, we focus on maintaining exceptional reliability, performance, and scalability while continuously evolving the platform. You will work alongside a team of senior-level engineers, contributing to architectural decisions, optimizing distributed processes, and driving engineering excellence across the organization.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of commercial PHP development experience.
  • Strong knowledge of PHP 8.x and modern backend development practices.
  • Deep understanding of OOP, SOLID principles, design patterns, and clean architecture.
  • Experience building and maintaining large-scale backend systems.
  • Strong experience with Symfony and/or Laravel.
  • Advanced knowledge of MySQL, including query optimization, indexing strategies, replication, and locking mechanisms.
  • Experience with high-volume data processing.
  • Experience with Redis.
  • Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka.
  • Understanding of observability, logging, and application profiling.
  • Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience working in CI/CD environments.
  • Strong ownership mindset and accountability.
  • Ability to work independently and make technical decisions.
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with ClickHouse at scale.
  • Experience building analytics or data lake solutions.
  • Experience refactoring large monolithic applications into modular domains.
  • Knowledge of OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and optimize key modules of a high-performance PHP platform.
  • Ensure reliability, maintainability, and scalability of the codebase.
  • Take technical ownership of critical business domains and services.
  • Participate in architectural decision-making for a large enterprise monolith.
  • Design integration patterns with databases and external systems.
  • Improve modularity and maintain clear boundaries between platform components.
  • Design efficient data models and storage strategies.
  • Optimize MySQL queries and ORM performance under heavy production workloads.
  • Work with large datasets and contribute to analytical solutions using ClickHouse.
  • Design and maintain asynchronous processing solutions using Apache Kafka.
  • Build reliable integrations between internal services and external systems.
  • Integrate telemetry into applications using OpenTelemetry-based solutions.
  • Analyze application performance and identify bottlenecks.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents.
  • Contribute to monitoring, logging, and tracing practices.
  • Conduct meaningful code reviews and mentor fellow engineers.
  • Promote high development standards and best practices.
  • Collaborate closely with Product Managers, QA Engineers, DevOps, and other stakeholders.

Benefits

  • 20 vacation days and 5 family days yearly
  • Flexible start to the workday
  • Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist
  • Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events
  • Access to our internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities
  • Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support
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