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Summary

As a PHP Backend Engineer at LUMASERV, you'll play a key role in developing and maintaining customer projects that serve millions of users daily. You'll work closely with our product managers, developers, and architects to build robust, scalable backend solutions using modern PHP frameworks, particularly Laravel. If you appreciate clean code, domain-driven design, and the elegance that Laravel brings to application development, this position offers you the opportunity to shape the technical direction of projects while writing high-quality code every day.

• You love working with Laravel (or Symfony) and leverage its full capabilities—including queues, broadcasting, dependency injection, storage and notification systems and Artisan
• You design and develop REST APIs (sometimes Graph
  
  QL) using domain-driven design that integrate seamlessly with frontend applications and external systems
• You perform regular code reviews and help establish best practices within the team
• You want to dive deeper into AI protocols like MCP and implement them in large enterprise applications
• You monitor application performance and gain insights using state-of-the-art APM tools (application performance monitoring)
• You write and maintain comprehensive tests using Laravel's built-in testing capabilities (PHPUnit and PEST), supported by AI
• You challenge and improve coding standards with your colleagues
• You work with scalable databases (MySQL, Maria
  
  DB, Redis) to design efficient data models and queries
• You participate in technical planning sessions and contribute to architectural decisions with your team
• You understand the concepts behind Laravel Inertia

• Extensive professional experience in PHP backend development on enterprise enter level
• Strong expertise with Laravel (or similar modern frameworks like Symfony) and the Framework's core concepts including dependency injection
• Experience with schema design and and software modelling
• Proficiency in writing automated tests (PHPUnit, Pest)
• Familiarity with HTTP REST/RPC interfaces and API documentation formats (Swagger/OpenAPI)
• Experience with project management tools (e.g. Linear or Notion)
• Strong understanding of web security principles and common vulnerabilities
• Strong experience with local development setups based on Docker (and Laravel Sail)

• Experience with domain-driven design and software architecture
• Knowledge of CI/CD processes and Dev Ops practices
• Experience with message queues and asynchronous processing
• Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in the developer community
• Familiary with application performance monitoring