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Backend Engineer; Data Pipelines
Job in
Greater London, London, Greater London, W1B, England, UK
Listed on 2026-10-08
Listing for:
Mowt
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-08
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Backend Developer, PHP Developer, Database Engineering
Job Description & How to Apply Below
We're looking for a backend engineer who lives and breathes Laravel. You'll build APIs that process millions of Stripe transactions, optimize MySQL queries that make databases purr, and design data pipelines that never miss a beat.
You'll work on real problems: handling webhook storms from Stripe, making complex analytics queries run in milliseconds, and architecting systems that scale gracefully. We work hard, ship often, and celebrate every successful deploy. And when things break? We fix them together, learn from them, and then grab a beer.
What You'll Do- Build and maintain Laravel APIs powering our web and mobile apps
- Design MySQL schemas and write migrations that keep data integrity rock-solid
- Process millions of Stripe webhooks using AWS Lambda and SQS queues
- Optimize MySQL and Click House queries for dashboards rendering 100k+ rows
- Build data transformation pipelines feeding our analytics warehouse
- Collaborate on API design, database architecture, and system scalability
- 4+ years building production backends that handle real traffic
- Expert-level Laravel and PHP knowledge (Eloquent, migrations, queues, events)
- Deep MySQL skills—you know your indexes from your joins, and your N+1s scare you
- Experience designing RESTful APIs that frontends actually enjoy using
- Comfort with asynchronous processing, job queues, and event-driven architectures
- Solid understanding of web security, data privacy, and best practices
- Strong communication—you can explain complex systems in simple terms
- Stripe API integration experience—you've handled webhooks, idempotency, retries
- AWS Lambda, SQS, or serverless architecture experience
- Click House, Redshift, or analytics database experience
- Built or maintained ETL/data pipeline systems
- Some frontend familiarity (Type Script, React)—you get the full picture
- Early-stage startup experience—you've built things from scratch before
- Laravel / PHP 8.3
- MySQL 8.0
- Click House
- Redis
APIs & Data
- Stripe API
- RESTful APIs
- Webhooks
Infrastructure
- Salary: £110,000 - £145,000 based on experience
- Equity: 0.10% - 0.30% (early employee grant)
- Health: Private medical insurance (Vitality or Bupa)
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