Senior PHP Developer (Middle-Strong or Senior) Bucharest

Senior PHP Developer (Middle-Strong or Senior)
Bucureşti
Bucharest, Romania

Position: Senior PHP Developer (Middle-Strong or Senior)

Location: Remote, Full-time B2B (GMT +1 — GMT +3)

Languages: English and Ukrainian (or Russian) is a must

About the Company:

Our client is a leading Saa
S platform specializing in
- purchase analytics and customer experience for
- commerce businesses. The company has a stable legacy platform and is currently building a new, scalable architecture designed for growth and performance using Google Cloud and AI-based solutions. They are actively seeking talented developers to contribute to their next phase of growth.

Role Overview:

We are looking for an experienced Senior PHP Developer to join our client’s team and help evolve the platform. In this role, you will spend 70% of your time working on the new platform and 30% maintaining the legacy platform. You will be responsible for developing scalable solutions, improving architecture, and ensuring the high performance and reliability of the platform.

Responsibilities:

70% — Develop new platform features using Laravel 12. 1, Google Cloud, Postgre
SQL, and modular architecture (Pub/Sub).

30% — Maintain and improve the legacy platform with Laravel 8, PHP 7. 4, Google Compute Engine, and My
SQL.

Ensure SLA fixes and address bug resolutions.

End-to-end development of new features.

Write unit/integration tests (PHPUnit, Pest) to maintain high code quality.

Perform code reviews and apply DDD principles.

Optimize system performance, especially for
- load scenarios.

Improve platform architecture and maintain clean, readable code.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of professional PHP development experience.
• Strong experience with Laravel 12 (or Laravel 10+), including writing packages and working with queues (Horizon/Google Pub/Sub).
• Experience with Postgre
  SQL and My
  SQL (legacy).
• Familiarity with Google Cloud (Run, Pub/Sub) (preferred).
• Solid understanding of DDD principles and architectural patterns (preferred).
• Experience with unit/integration tests (PHPUnit, Pest).
• Strong knowledge of Redis for task queues.
• Excellent soft skills,
  - organization, and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Fluent in Ukrainian (Russian) and good working proficiency in English.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience optimizing
  - load systems.
• Familiarity with Stripe, Paddle, or similar payment systems.
• Experience with Symfony, pure PHP, or Node
  JS for
  - performance services.
• Experience with modular architectures (app-store modules).
• Understanding of e
  Commerce basics.
• LLM/AI integration experience.
• Knowledge of performance profiling (p95/p99).
• Familiarity with Shopify API.

What We Offer:

Fully remote work within a comfortable time zone (GMT +1 … +5 preferred).

A small, friendly team with no bureaucracy and low turnover.

21 days of paid vacation.

Direct influence on the product, transparent processes, and minimal meetings.

Collaborative planning with the founder: quick
- making and the opportunity to propose and implement your ideas.

Flexible working hours and the ability to grow within the company.

Performance-based incentives.

Training and development opportunities.

Referrals: earn a bonus for referring talented friends who pass their probation period.

Access to private medical insurance and a flexible benefits plan (gym, language courses, Netflix, etc. ).

Join the company’s education foundation for learning new skills and participate in biannual raffles for a chance to learn something unrelated to your job.