Senior Backend Engineer (Laravel)
On-siteDubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates or New Delhi, Delhi, India
Job Summary
Design and build scalable backend services in Laravel, managing architecture from initial concept through production deployment and long-term maintenance. Implement core platform capabilities including data modelling, REST APIs, and event-driven asynchronous systems using queues and background jobs. Optimize database performance and application scalability while integrating third-party services such as commerce, logistics, and AI/LLM APIs. Review code, mentor developers, and enforce engineering standards to reduce technical debt and improve release practices. Work on greenfield applications and scale existing codebases to handle millions of requests within AWS infrastructure.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional backend development
- 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
- ability to reason about trade-offs
- Experience with Shopify APIs
- Eloquent ORM optimisation
- MySQL performance tuning
- Redis
- queue-based systems
- AWS infrastructure
- scalable REST APIs
- Solid MySQL depth
- indexing
- query optimisation
- performance under growth
- Redis and queue-based asynchronous processing
- Experience with AWS
- Docker
- Linux
- Git
- CI/CD
- application monitoring
- performance optimization
- Testing as a habit
- writing tests
- expecting CI to catch problems
- taking reliability seriously
- Working knowledge of AWS
- EC2
- RDS
- S3
- IAM
- CloudWatch
- Clear written communication
- the ability to document and defend design decisions
- basic background check
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in a regulated domain (healthcare, fintech, or similar)
- Multi-tenant SaaS experience
- LLM integration work
- Anthropic or OpenAI APIs
- interest in evaluation and reliability
- Shopify API experience
- Event-driven architecture in production
- Vue.js + Inertia on the frontend
- frontend fluency
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