Mid/Senior Back-end Developer (Laravel)

Job Description

The Back-End Developer is responsible for delivering high-quality web services by implementing best-in-class tools, standards, and development practices. This role ensures that the back-end components of the Software Engineering department meet the highest quality standards under the guidance of the Team Leader and the Lead Back-End Engineering Team.

• In charge of developing high-concurrency interfaces for the game server, managing real-time account operations such as adding or deducting player points.
• Engineered high-reliability transactional mechanisms to ensure asset operations are executed with full atomicity and data consistency.
• Built high-performance, resident-in-memory services using frameworks such as Hyperf, Swoole, Octane, and RoadRunner.
• Optimized API response latency, improved QPS, and overall throughput to support thousands of concurrent online users.
• Participated in business architecture design and built a stable, scalable service infrastructure framework.
• Collaborated across frontend and client development teams to maintain standardized API documentation and ensure the reliability and completeness of implemented features.
• Continuously tracked and analyzed service metrics to improve performance, resolve issues, and eliminate system bottlenecks.

• A minimum of 3 years of experience is required for Mid-level, and at least 5 years for Senior Back-end Development roles.
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience with Laravel
• Strong experience in Laravel Octane (Required)
• Must be comfortable building high-concurrency applications using Laravel Octane
• Thorough knowledge of coroutine mechanisms, event-driven systems, and persistent in-memory service models.
• Skilled in handling transaction logic for monetary and points operations under high-concurrency read/write scenarios, with experience resolving issues such as overdrafts and concurrent update failures.
• Proficient in implementing hybrid transaction models leveraging MySQL and Redis, with a deep understanding of eventual and strong consistency design patterns.
• Experienced in implementing concurrency control using Redis-based distributed locking, optimistic concurrency strategies, and asynchronous queues to avoid race conditions and data inconsistencies.
• Proficient in utilizing message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis Stream) to implement decoupled architectures and enable efficient asynchronous workflows

• Language: PHP 8+
• Framework: Laravel 8+
• Experience with at least two of the following:
• Swoole / Hyperf
• RoadRunner + Spiral
• Laravel Octane
• Slim Framework + Medoo / PDO
• Concepts & Practices:
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Design Patterns
• Databases:
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Message Queues:
• Kafka
• Redis Queue
• RabbitMQ
• Tools & Utilities:
• Docker
• Git
• Supervisor
• Sentry

• Shift: Monday to Saturday, 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
• Location: Onsite – Room 2302, 23rd Floor, One San Miguel Avenue (OSMA) Building, San Miguel Avenue cor. Shaw Boulevard, Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines
• Status: Full-time Employment
• Open Positions: 2 Senior-level and 1 Mid-level