Position: Senior Backend Engineer (Laravel / PHP)
Overview
Do you want to love what you do at work? Do you want to make a difference, an impact, transform peoples lives? Do you want to work with a team that believes in disrupting the normal, boring, and average? If yes, then this is the job you're looking for. is Saudi's #1 event ticketing and experience booking platform in terms of technology, features, agility, revenue serving some of the largest mega events in the Kingdom surpassing over 2 billion sales.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will own complex backend features, improve system architecture, and ensure performance, scalability, and reliability. You will mentor junior engineers and contribute significantly to technical decision-making.
Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure backend systems using Laravel
• Own backend features end-to-end, from design to production
• Design and optimize RESTful APIs and backend workflows
• Architect and optimize database, caching, and performance strategies
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve system reliability
• Collaborate with Product and Operations teams on roadmap execution
• Review code, mentor junior engineers, and improve engineering quality
• Create and maintain technical documentation and architecture diagrams
Technical Skills
• Strong expertise in PHP, Laravel, and backend best practices
• Experience with SQL and No
SQL databases, including MongoDB
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design and security
• Experience with caching, performance tuning, and scalability
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows
• Strong experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
Requirements
• 5+ years of experience as a Laravel/PHP backend developer
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Proven experience working on production-scale systems
• Experience mentoring junior engineers
Bonus / Nice-to-Have (Cloud & Platform Knowledge)
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience deploying and operating applications in cloud environments
• Knowledge of Docker and container-based deployments
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployments
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools
• Understanding of load balancing, autoscaling, and caching layers
• Basic exposure to infrastructure-as-code concepts
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