PHP Developer

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PHP Developer building AI-first PHP backend features for Cleeng’s subscriber retention and subscription-management platform. Designing REST APIs, modernizing legacy systems, and improving AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain backend features in the Core Platform using PHP 8.4, Laminas Mezzio, Doctrine, and MySQL
  • Expose backend functionality through well-designed REST APIs
  • Use AI coding agents daily for implementation, test generation, refactoring, and navigating the legacy codebase
  • Improve documentation, conventions, tests, tooling, MCP servers, and agent instructions to increase team productivity
  • Own correctness, design quality, and security of merged code
  • Launch features with dashboards and alerts, monitor them, and participate in operational health
  • Use AI to accelerate incident triage, log analysis, and root-cause investigations
  • Modernize the platform through incremental refactoring and removal of legacy components
  • Investigate and resolve bugs and escalations
  • Collaborate with QA on shift-left, AI-assisted test automation
  • Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and PHP Guild alignment
  • Share AI workflows, prompts, and lessons learned across squads in a remote-first international team

Requirements:

  • AI-first engineering practice: daily, fluent use of AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor), including effective prompting and critical review of generated code
  • Proficient usage of modern PHP (8.x) with strong OOP and SOLID design judgement
  • Ability to independently deliver in a mainstream PHP framework with Doctrine or another ORM
  • MySQL query optimisation
  • Experience with REST API design and consumption
  • Automated testing in PHPUnit and a TDD mindset
  • Confidence navigating and incrementally refactoring large legacy codebases, increasingly with AI assistance
  • Ownership of features from ticket to production with a quality and reliability mindset
  • Clear written communication and autonomy in a remote-first, agile team

Benefits:

  • Flexible working hours and form of employment
  • Possibility to work 100% remotely or in hybird model; depending on the geo location
  • 100 % paid sick leave within the agreed limits
  • Events, celebrations