Senior PHP Engineer

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £91.6k - £135k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Airalo

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51 - 200 employees

📡 Telecommunications

✈️ Travel

Telecommunications • Technology • Travel

Airalo is the world's first eSIM store that provides digital SIM cards (eSIMs) to travelers in over 200 countries and regions globally. The company offers an innovative solution to avoid high roaming charges by allowing users to purchase and activate eSIMs via its app, ensuring instant connectivity without the need for physical SIM cards. Airalo caters to various travelers by providing local, regional, and global eSIMs with transparent, prepaid pricing plans, supported by 24/7 customer service. The platform also supports partnership through APIs and offers incentives such as referral credits. Airalo represents a modern approach to global mobile connectivity, making it an essential tool for frequent travelers.

📋 Description

• Lead the design of high-performance distributed systems capable of handling global traffic • Develop and refine services to improve scalability and efficiency • Drive the transition toward service-oriented architecture to ensure modularity and resilience • Enforce SOLID principles, design patterns, and testing standards • Coach mid-level engineers through code reviews and technical knowledge sharing • Identify service bottlenecks and implement advanced caching and database strategies • Partner with Product and DevOps to translate complex requirements into scalable technical roadmaps • Participate in the on-call rotation to maintain 24/7 service reliability

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional backend development experience with deep mastery of PHP • 4+ years of enterprise-grade application development in Laravel or equivalent senior background in Symfony • Mastery of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and messaging patterns such as SQS or Pub/Sub • Ability to effectively use AI tools during technical tasks, including prompting, validating, and iterating • Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL, including performance tuning and transactions at scale • Experience architecting on AWS and managing containerized environments with Docker • Clean code, automated testing, and CI/CD best practices • Fluent English and ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to stakeholders • Experience with SaaS/PaaS, SOA, or microservices architecture (bonus) • Experience with eSIM or GSMA technologies (bonus) • Familiarity with Traveltech solutions (bonus) • Experience building or maintaining custom SDKs (bonus)

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid standby fees and overtime pay for on-call rotation • No on-call duties during the first 6 months • Guaranteed rest periods and flexible hours following night incidents • Weekday/weekend rotation split to minimize fatigue • Fully remote work • Equal-opportunity employer committed to reasonable accommodations