Senior Back-end Engineer (PHP/Python)
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TruelogicPet Tech
Based in Latin AmericaFull-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerPHPPythonMySQLRedisTerraform
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building, operating, and scaling backend systems in production environments.
- Deep proficiency in PHP (ideally Laravel) along with working proficiency in Python.
- Hands-on experience developing features and building context workflows using AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar).
- Proven experience with event-driven and queue-based architectures, particularly utilizing AWS SQS.
- Experience running containerized services in production, ideally using Amazon ECS.
- Experience integrating LLMs into production software (plus).
- Familiarity with secrets management tools such as AWS Parameter Store or HashiCorp Vault (plus).
- Experience using large-scale static analysis and automated refactoring tools like PHPStan or Rector (plus).
- Proficiency deploying and maintaining infrastructure using Terraform, Docker, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines (plus).
- Strong knowledge of relational database design, query tuning, and caching platforms, specifically MySQL and Redis (plus).
- Background in production incident management, monitoring, and backend secure design principles (plus).
Responsibilities
- Take end-to-end ownership of the backend platform, managing client-facing API schemas, servers, and database infrastructure in AWS.
- Integrate AI-powered solutions directly into core products while building and refining the agent workflows, context, and tooling that enable effective team development with AI across a large codebase.
- Contribute to architectural and design decisions, articulating trade-offs and breaking down complex features into releasable components.
- Design and implement core products within a PHP and Laravel API, building from OpenAPI specifications using domain-driven, service, and repository architectures.
- Build and enhance internal backend systems in Python, including AWS Lambda microservices, in collaboration with cross-functional business units.
- Support and maintain production AWS infrastructure using Terraform, managing services such as ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, Parameter Store, CloudWatch, and IAM.
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