Senior PHP Developer

Senior Backend Developer

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Backend Developer to join our team. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend systems for our Video Editing platform. Your focus will be on PHP (Laravel) and MariaDB/MySQL, building reliable APIs and services that perform efficiently under heavy load. You will collaborate closely with frontend, iOS, and QA teams to deliver secure, maintainable solutions.

Required skills & experience:

• 7+ years of software development experience

• PHP (OOP, performance best practices) – strong expertise in building efficient backend code

• Laravel/Symfony – proven experience delivering and maintaining high-load, production-grade applications

• SQL (MariaDB/MySQL) – solid fundamentals in schema design, indexing and query optimization

• APIs (REST/GraphQL) – experience designing and operating scalable and secure interfaces

• Workers/Queues – practical experience with long-running jobs and background processing

• Real-time systems – hands-on experience with WebSockets, pub/sub patterns and message brokers

• Docker/CI/CD – commercial experience with GitLab, Bitbucket, GitHub Actions or similar

• Linux – confident usage for deployment, troubleshooting, scripting and automation

• SOLID Principles – ability to apply them when making architectural decisions

Nice to have:

• Automated testing (PHPUnit, Laravel Dusk) – ability to cover Unit, Feature, Integration, and E2E flows

• Media pipelines (ffmpeg, codecs, streaming, chunked uploads) – experience integrating video/audio processing workflows

• Security (OWASP Top 10, auth, hardening) – familiarity with modern web security practices

• Observability (Sentry, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK) – practical usage for monitoring and debugging

• Cloud/IaC (AWS, Terraform, Ansible) – experience deploying and managing scalable environments

• Ceph clusters (RADOS, RBD, CephFS, RGW S3) – exposure to distributed storage systems

• AI/LLM – experience integrating inference or API-driven workflows

• Collaborative editing (CRDT/OT) – knowledge of real-time data sync approaches

• Education – degree in Computer Science or related field