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What you should know
We checked this opportunity from Scale Army. It is listed as Egypt, Argentina, Ethiopia, South Africa and Nigeria.
The work location is Remote — Egypt, Argentina, Ethiopia, South Africa and Nigeria. Employer-stated compensation: Salary not included in the job posting.
Job description
About this role
A major focus of this role will be building and maintaining reliable integrations with external platforms, including systems that may provide inconsistent, duplicated, delayed, or unreliable data. The Senior Backend Engineer will design resilient ingestion and asynchronous processing workflows while troubleshooting complex production and data issues across multiple systems. This is a deeply backend-focused position for an experienced PHP/Laravel engineer with strong database fundamentals, third-party API experience, practical AWS knowledge, and excellent production debugging skills.
Responsibilities
- Own backend features end to end, including requirements, schema changes, development, deployment, and production monitoring.
- Develop and maintain backend functionality within a mature PHP/Laravel application.
- Design solutions that remain reliable and scalable across a high-volume, multi-tenant SaaS environment.
- Take ownership of technical outcomes rather than focusing solely on framework-level implementation.
- Identify recurring technical issues and proactively recommend improvements to platform architecture, reliability, and performance.
- Build and maintain integrations with third-party platforms and services.
- Develop webhook receivers, polling jobs, and parsers that ingest and normalize external data.
- Design integrations capable of handling inconsistent, unreliable, duplicated, delayed, and out-of-order vendor data.
- Build resilient ingestion processes that maintain data accuracy as integration volume increases.
- Develop and consume REST APIs and work with external services across multiple industries and use cases.
- Support high-volume transactional messaging and customer feedback workflows.
- Design and maintain asynchronous and queue-based workflows using technologies such as AWS SQS.
Qualifications and requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend development experience.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with PHP and a modern PHP framework, with Laravel strongly preferred and Symfony also considered.
- Experience developing and maintaining production backend systems.
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs and integrating third-party services.
- Experience working with queues, background jobs, retries, failures, duplicate delivery, and timeouts.
- Experience building systems around inconsistent or unreliable third-party data.
- Experience working with Git and pull-request-based development workflows.
- Experience using Docker for local development.
- Experience using AI coding assistants on real production software.
- Senior-level debugging, architecture, and system design ability.
- Deep knowledge of modern PHP 8.x, object-oriented programming, and software design principles.
- Strong Laravel expertise with the ability to work effectively within a mature and actively developed codebase.
- Excellent relational database skills, including schema design, indexing, query optimization, analysis, and diagnosing performance degradation.
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Why you may be eligible
The source lists Egypt, Argentina, Ethiopia, South Africa and Nigeria as the eligible location. Confirm that you meet any work-authorization, time-zone and experience requirements.
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How this listing was checked
- Source status
- Applicant-tracking source confirmed
- Employer or source
- Scale Army
- Source checked
- September 7, 2026
- Application destination
- Employer or official applicant-tracking website
- Work setup and location
- Remote · Remote — Egypt, Argentina, Ethiopia, South Africa and Nigeria
- Who can apply
- Egypt, Argentina, Ethiopia, South Africa and Nigeria · Confirmed by source
- Pay
- Not stated by employer
- Deadline
- Not stated by employer
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