Senior PHP Developer

About the role

You will design, build and maintain PHP applications, APIs and integrations for Pracoda's clients, from e-commerce back ends to business systems, and help set the standard for code quality across the team.

What you will do

• Build and maintain PHP applications, REST APIs and back-office tools for client projects.
• Integrate payment gateways, ERPs, shipping providers and other third-party systems.
• Design database schemas and optimise slow queries and pages.
• Review code, mentor junior developers and agree technical approaches with the team.
• Estimate tasks, communicate progress clearly and work directly with clients when needed.

What we look for

• At least 5 years of professional PHP development experience.
• Strong knowledge of modern PHP, object-oriented design and Composer.
• Hands-on experience with a framework such as Laravel or Symfony.
• Solid MySQL skills, including query optimisation and schema design.
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs.
• Daily use of Git, with good habits around branching and code review.

Nice to have

• Magento 2 or Adobe Commerce experience.
• Redis, queues and background job processing.
• Automated testing with PHPUnit or Pest.
• Linux server, Docker and deployment experience.