Backend Engineer (PHP)
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Are you a talented professional eager to connect with like-minded experts and shape your career in a flexible, supportive environment?
The Awesomic Talent Pool is designed for individuals across design, engineering, product, marketing, and beyond who are ready to make an impact while growing in their field. Here, you’ll gain access to exclusive resources, early job openings, and a community that values innovation and collaboration.
🚀 About Awesomic
We are a web app that matches businesses from around the world with the best-fit talents using an AI-driven algorithm. Since our founding in 2020, we’ve completed 14,000+ tasks for 4,000+ clients, including Reface, Lift99, SilviaTerra, Y Combinator startups, and various VC funds.
Now Hiring: Backend Engineers with experience in PHP to join our talent pool and collaborate with our clients.
Location: Remote in Latin America (Mexico, Central and South America) and Europe.
🧑💻 What You'll Do:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using PHP and modern frameworks (e.g., Laravel, Symfony).
- Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and designers to deliver scalable and high-performing web applications.
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, following industry best practices.
- Optimize application performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure reliability in production environments.
- Integrate third-party APIs, services, and internal tools to support business needs.
- Participate in code reviews, knowledge-sharing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
🧑🚀 About You:
- You are passionate about backend development and building reliable, scalable systems.
- You thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy working closely with cross-functional teams.
- You have a strong problem-solving mindset and can take ownership of complex technical challenges.
- You stay updated on new technologies and enjoy improving development processes and system design.
- You value writing high-quality code and care about long-term maintainability.
- You are proactive, detail-oriented, and capable of balancing speed with quality.
🧠 Must-have skills:
- Solid experience developing backend applications with PHP and frameworks like Laravel or Symfony.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar) and query optimization.
- Experience with RESTful APIs design and integration.
- Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Good understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) and software design patterns.
- Experience with debugging, testing, and performance optimization in production environments.
✨ Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Experience with Docker or containerized environments.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) for deployment and scaling.
- Familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend frameworks (React, Vue, etc.) for cross-functional collaboration.
- Exposure to message queues, caching systems, or microservices architecture.
💎 What's on us:
- Remote-first culture and flexibility
- 15 annual paid days off + 15 paid sick leave days
- $120 monthly psychologist reimbursement
- Access to a supportive global talent community
- A role that’s impact-driven, dynamic, and never boring
We look forward to meeting the next great addition to our community! 🧑🚀
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
About Awesomic
We are a web app that matches businesses from around the world with the best-fit talents using an AI-driven algorithm. Since our founding in 2020, we’ve completed 20,000+ tasks for 4,000+ clients, including Reface, Lift99, SilviaTerra, Y Combinator startups, and various VC funds.