Sr. PHP Developer

About the role

Senior Software Engineer is expected to design, build, and ship high-quality software while owning the full lifecycle of changes – from development through production deployment. The position works closely with cross-functional teams to maintain, troubleshoot, and deliver reliable, scalable systems.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance software systems.
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and conduct thorough code reviews.
• Deploy changes to production using CI/CD pipelines; monitor releases for issues.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents, including on-call rotation participation.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure system reliability.
• Collaborate with product managers and other stakeholders to define technical requirements.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical decision making.

About you

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in one or more languages (preferably: PHP, NodeJS, Python, Java).
• Strong experience working with MySQL, including writing and optimizing complex queries, schema designs, and indexing strategies.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing applications in production environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.
• Experience with Cloud Platforms (preferably with Alicloud).
• Understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid grasp of monitoring/observability tools (e.g. Datadog, Grafana, etc).
• Strong debugging and incident-response skills.
• Familiarity with blue-green or canary deployment strategies.