Senior Backend Engineer – PHP/Rust Migration

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🕒 March 17

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South Geeks

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11 - 50 employees

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☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

Recruitment • SaaS • Enterprise

South Geeks is a company that excels at building high-performing software development teams by bridging Latin American talent with global opportunities, enabling successful partnerships. With a strong emphasis on putting people first, South Geeks provides a customized approach to connecting skilled software developers with clients, ensuring the best culture and talent fit for collaborative team building. They are committed to long-term relationships, making ongoing efforts to help team members grow and succeed professionally. South Geeks prides itself on a low attrition rate due to its supportive and rewarding work environment, and its focus on strong communication and in-demand capabilities. They employ mid to senior-level software developers, testers, data scientists, and DevOps specialists, continuously developing their skills under the guidance of performance coaches. South Geeks is known for its people-focused, curated approach to staffing, making both clients and staff feel valued and supported. With a leadership team from Latin America, they truly understand and respect the culture and the people they work with, enhancing the overall experience for both engineers and clients.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain backend functionality in a PHP-based payment processing platform. • Contribute to the gradual migration of selected systems from PHP to Rust. • Troubleshoot production issues and perform data investigations when needed. • Participate in weekly production releases and help maintain stable deployment cycles. • Review code and collaborate with engineers to maintain code quality. • Support and evolve system observability through logging, monitoring, and debugging tools. • Work closely with the team to understand and maintain complex payment workflows tied to government systems.

🎯 Requirements

• Senior-level experience developing backend systems in PHP, ideally within a LAMP-based architecture. • Strong experience working with MySQL and relational database design. • Experience maintaining and evolving large, long-lived codebases. • Solid understanding of Unix/Linux environments and server-based application development. • Experience debugging production systems and investigating complex data or processing issues. • Familiarity with automated testing practices and maintaining large test suites. • Experience working with message queues, logging systems, or asynchronous processing. • Ability to work independently while collaborating through code reviews and technical discussions. • Strong analytical skills and ability to learn complex technical and business domains.

🏖️ Benefits

• Long-term projects • 100% remote work • Payment in USD • Paid Time Off (PTO) • Work-from-home & training reimbursement • English lessons • Technical training • Career coaching