Senior PHP Engineer

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🇵🇰 Pakistan – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Smart Working

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

Smart Working is a recruitment service specializing in sourcing and providing top-tier software developers from around the world to meet the needs of businesses. With a robust vetting process that includes technical assessments and background checks, Smart Working ensures that clients receive highly skilled developers adept in various programming languages and frameworks. The company focuses on flexible and remote hiring solutions, allowing businesses to efficiently scale their development teams while benefiting from significant cost savings.

📋 Description

• Own and evolve the PHP backend ingesting GPS and telematics data, safety hardware events and DVR video • Build and maintain APIs for the web platform, mobile application and integration partners • Deliver the Yii2-to-Laravel migration • Deliver the MariaDB-to-PostgreSQL migration • Support decomposition of the existing monolith into microservices • Take over systems from a retiring contractor and become productive despite limited documentation • Support the backend for the AI product line alongside the computer vision developer • Take end-to-end ownership of production systems • Work independently within a small senior team • Apply architectural judgement to microservices and database migrations, prioritizing data integrity • Work with Bitbucket Pipelines and PHPUnit • Make production engineering decisions for systems used by local authorities • Collaborate with the developer leading computer vision work

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of commercial PHP backend development at Expert level • 5+ years of experience with large-scale SaaS or complex production systems at Expert level • 3+ years of PostgreSQL experience at Advanced level • 5+ years of API design and third-party integration experience at Advanced level • 3+ years of high-volume data processing experience at Advanced level, including event-driven systems and ingestion pipelines • 3+ years of Laravel and/or Yii2 experience at Advanced level • 3+ years of PHPUnit experience at Advanced level; Pest or Codeception may substitute • 2+ years of microservices or monolith-decomposition experience at Intermediate level • 2+ years of AWS experience at Intermediate level; Azure or GCP may substitute • Experience in telematics, fleet or logistics; IoT, GPS/location technology or connected-device experience may substitute • Experience with video, CCTV or large media file handling; large-file storage, retrieval and retention at scale may substitute • Ability to take end-to-end ownership of mature production systems and work independently with limited hand-holding • Strong complex-system exposure is essential • Experience with MariaDB/MySQL at scale • Front-end experience is nice to have, not required • Familiarity with CI/CD using Bitbucket Pipelines or alternatives • Familiarity with AI or computer vision is nice to have • Target start date of November 2026

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time, long-term employment • Remote-first work environment • Genuine community focused on employee growth and well-being • Opportunities for personal and professional growth • Collaboration with global teams and products • Flexible working practices • Work with a highly rated Glassdoor workplace