We’re a fast-growing
European cloud infrastructure & managed services provider
powering high-performance hosting and managed Kubernetes for tech teams. We’re looking for an experienced
Senior PHP / Laravel Backend Engineer
to help build scalable, secure backend systems that run on modern cloud platforms.
Join a pragmatic engineering team where your code keeps customer workloads running reliably at scale.
What you’ll be doing
- Design, build and maintain backend services and APIs using PHP (8+) and Laravel .
- Implement robust database schemas and optimised queries (MySQL/Postgres).
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, containerised builds (Docker) and cloud deployments (Kubernetes).
- Integrate with caches, message queues and observability tooling (Redis, RabbitMQ/Kafka, Prometheus/ELK).
- Own features from design to production: write tests (PHPUnit), perform code reviews, and troubleshoot live incidents.
- Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to design services that are secure, observable and cost-efficient.
- Mentor junior engineers and help evolve engineering practices and architecture.
What we’re looking for
- 4+ years professional experience with PHP and Laravel (or similar frameworks).
- Strong SQL skills and experience with MySQL or Postgres at scale.
- Practical experience with Docker and deploying applications to container platforms; familiarity with Kubernetes a big plus.
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design; experience with GraphQL is a plus.
- Experience with automated testing (unit, integration) and CI systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
- Comfortable debugging production issues and working with observability tools (logs/metrics/tracing).
- Fluent English (spoken & written); German is optional but helpful for some customer-facing work.
- Team player with good communication skills and a pragmatic, security-minded approach.
Nice to have
- Previous experience at an infrastructure, hosting or managed-services company.
- Familiarity with cloud networking, DDoS mitigation patterns or edge DNS/hosting services.
- Experience with PHP performance tuning and profiling.
- Knowledge of Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
What we offer
- Competitive salary and flexible, remote-first working policy (EU timezone friendly).
- Generous training & conference budget, paid time off, and hardware allowance.
- Opportunity to work directly on infrastructure powering real customer workloads (high impact).
- Collaborative, engineering-led culture with a strong focus on reliability, security and pragmatic automation.
- Clear career path and mentorship opportunities.