PHP Developer (Cebu - Onsite)

Work Location: Cebu

Work set-up: Onsite (Dayshift)

Job Responsibilities :

·       Develop and maintain the customer-facing mobile backend API on CodeIgniter 3.x / PHP 8.x running on a managed PaaS app platform, serving the iOS and Android clients.

·       Build, schedule, and troubleshoot batch and cron jobs for data preparation, aggregation, and delivery.

·       Enhance and support the operator admin CMS on Laravel 6.x / PHP 7.2+, covering master data, promotion, and campaign management screens.

·       Develop and operate the promotion/coupon APIs on Laravel 9 / PHP 8.x deployed to a container-based serverless runtime — covering both in-store POS transaction flows and app-side offer list and stock queries.

·       Maintain the reporting batch — scheduled operational reports generated via console commands and exported to cloud storage.

·       Write and maintain event-driven serverless functions in PHP and Python for master data synchronization, push notifications, and spreadsheet parsing via object-storage and HTTP triggers.

·       Support and extend serverless container jobs written in TypeScript/Node for data processing and analytics feeds.

·       Design and tune relational database schemas, complex queries, and indexes behind all of the above services.

·       Diagnose production incidents across both cloud runtimes using centralized logging, and resolve maintenance tickets raised by the client and offshore teams.

·       Maintain unit tests and support the Cypress/TypeScript end-to-end suite to keep CMS releases stable.

·       Perform peer code reviews, approve pull requests, and coordinate release and deployment activity.

·       Communicate directly with the client, offshore teams, and mobile app developers.

Must-Have Skills :

• Solid in Backend Development using PHP (Strong OOP PHP with working fluency in both PHP 7.2 and PHP 8.x)
• CodeIgniter as Platform (Hands-on CI3 — controllers, models, libraries, helpers, hooks, routing, and CI-style database queries.)
• Laravel 6 and Laravel 9
• REST API design
• Cloud platform operations
• Batch & cron processing
• Relational database
• Legacy maintenance mindset