Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

PlanHub is the leading pre-construction SaaS platform helping general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers connect and grow their businesses. They are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to design, develop, and maintain cloud-native SaaS applications, focusing on API development and backend systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop high-quality applications using the Laravel PHP framework
• Design and maintain scalable, performant, and fault tolerant backend systems
• Provide efficient data and security management for our APIs
• Write clean and maintainable code, and ensure code quality by conducting regular code reviews
• Maintain robust automated build test suites to support continuous integration (CI/CD using GitHub Actions)
• Work collaboratively with product managers, and other developers
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies
• Participate in planning ceremonies and daily stand-up meetings
• Maintain and expand API documentation using OpenAPI specifications
• Review and troubleshoot critical production issues
• Collaborate with DevOps to continuously improve deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), observability (Datadog) and release processes
• Guide and mentor junior developers

Requirements:

• 5+ years software development experience in backend systems
• 5+ years of experience in developing and maintaining applications backed by a relational database such as MySQL
• 3+ years of experience in PHP development
• 3+ years of experience developing and supporting cloud-native applications, using AWS services such as SQS, ECS, EventBridge, API Gateway, and Lambda
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• Experience with the Git version control system
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent experience