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# Senior PHP Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Dev & Dev, LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, PHP (Programming Language), Unit Testing, Code Review, Relational Databases, Database Queries, Monitoring of Systems, Laravel, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Object-Oriented Software Development, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Grafana, Backend, Solid Principles, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Docker
- **Published:** September 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pl4qmgyq7o

## About the Role

* Experience (5+ years) in object-oriented PHP and modern PHP tools
 * Software design principles (SOLID, KISS, DRY) and layered architecture
 * Applied DDD practices: bounded contexts, aggregates, domain events
 * Good knowledge of the latest versions of Laravel framework
 * Strong understanding of relational databases like MySQL/PostgreSQL including transaction management
 * Experience in database query optimization, analysing deadlocks and db performance
 * Message-driven services in production with Apache Kafka or a comparable broker
 * Handling money in application code: exact arithmetic, explicit rounding rules, multi-currency precision, idempotent money-moving operations
 * Security best practices
 * Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana or similar)
 * Working with Docker/Docker Compose/Kubernetes on a daily basis
 * Good level of spoken and written English (B1+) and Russian

## Description

* Collaborate with cross-functional and cross-domain teams to gather requirements, design solutions, and deliver features
 * Design, develop, and maintain backend systems using PHP and MySQL(or similar), ensuring they are scalable and maintainable
 * Implement and optimize complex features with a focus on clean, reusable, and efficient code
 * Write unit tests to ensure the reliability and scalability of code
 * Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and ensure adherence to best practices in software development
 * Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance, and security
 * Share on-call duties with the team to ensure smooth operations of the systems in production
 * Stay updated with new technologies and trends, and introduce them where appropriate to enhance system performance and maintainability


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