Hey! We are Kultprosvet, a team of web and mobile software developers who care. Now we’re expanding and welcome talented Senior Backend Engineer (PHP/Laravel) to join our team.
About the project:
We’re developing a powerful gifting SaaS platform that helps companies and individuals easily send gifts at scale — for employee rewards, customer engagement, and special occasions.
Requirements: * 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, with strong senior-level ownership; * Strong PHP skills and solid hands-on Laravel experience; * Deep understanding of MySQL / relational databases, including schema design, transactions, migrations, and query optimization; * Strong experience building and maintaining production APIs (REST or GraphQL, authentication, integrations, versioning); * Experience working with production systems, including debugging complex issues, logging, monitoring, and incident resolution; * Strong understanding of reliability, scalability, and performance in production environments; * Experience with safe deployments, release processes, and troubleshooting production issues; * Ability to work effectively with an existing/mature codebase, identify technical risks, and improve it incrementally; * Strong engineering practices: code reviews, testing, PR workflows, clean and maintainable code; * Strong ownership mindset — ability to take a problem from investigation and solution design through implementation, rollout, and monitoring; * Good frontend awareness — ability to understand modern frontend architecture and collaborate effectively with frontend engineers; * Familiarity with AWS environments and deployment concepts; * Experience using AI-assisted development tools as part of the engineering workflow; * Strong communication and collaboration skills; * English: Upper-Intermediate (B2) or higher.
What You’ll Do: * Build and maintain backend features, services, and APIs using PHP / Laravel; * Work with both the existing platform and contribute to its ongoing technical evolution and modernization; * Design reliable flows around integrations, gift lifecycle/state, and operational tooling; * Implement and maintain background jobs, asynchronous processing, retries, and failure handling; * Investigate and resolve complex production issues and help improve overall system stability; * Improve application performance and data quality through MySQL optimization, schema improvements, and safe migrations; * Collaborate closely with frontend engineers and product/design teams on API contracts and end-to-end delivery; * Raise the engineering quality bar through code reviews, testing practices, technical discussions, and pragmatic refactoring; * Take ownership of a domain from problem → solution → rollout → monitoring → iteration; * Support and mentor other engineers and contribute to technical decisions and engineering standards; * Gradually expand your knowledge across the platform, including newer Node.js-based components.
What we offer: * Competitive compensation: depending on experience and qualifications; * Flexible work setup — remote or from our office in Dnipro; * Opportunity to make a direct impact on product growth and key business metrics; * Comprehensive benefits, including medical insurance, full accounting support, a budget for courses, conferences, and professional development, plus coverage for psychotherapy sessions because your well-being matters.
Ready to work on meaningful products and grow with us? Let’s connect!
