Principal Engineer PHP

Immediate Joiners with Strong OOP skills and with minimum 10 years experience. Do not apply if you do not have a minimum of 10 years experience.

About the role

We’re seeking a PHP Architect (Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce, OXID, Shopware)to lead the design and evolution of our e-commerce platforms. You’ll set coding standards, perform deep code reviews on complex flows (catalog, checkout, payments, promotions), and mentor teams in building scalable, secure, high-performing systems. Strong OOP/SOLID skills are essential; hands-on e-commerce experience is required.

Immediate Joiners with Strong OOP skills and with minimum 10 years experience. Do not apply if you do not have a minimum of 10 years experience.

Key responsibilities

- Architecture & design: Own application and domain architecture for PHP services (modular monolith or microservices). Apply OOP/SOLID, design patterns, and clean architecture/DDD where appropriate. - Code governance: Establish PSR standards (PSR-4/12), review complex PRs, enforce quality gates, and guide refactors to reduce tech debt. - E-commerce domain leadership: Model domains like catalog, pricing/promo, carts, checkout, orders, payments, tax, shipping, inventory, and returns. - Hands on coding: This role involves hands on development work. Do not apply if you are not interested in doing that. - Performance & scalability: Profile and tune (OPcache, PHP-FPM), optimize queries and caching (Redis), implement queues (RabbitMQ/SQS) and async jobs. - API & integrations: Design REST/GraphQL APIs; integrate with payment gateways (Stripe/Adyen/Braintree/PayPal), tax (Avalara), shipping/fulfillment, search (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch), and ERP/CRM. - Security & compliance: Embed OWASP best practices, protect PII, and support PCI-DSS-aware design across payment flows. - Testing & reliability: Champion automated tests (PHPUnit/Pest), contract/integration tests, CI/CD pipelines, and observability (logs/metrics/traces). - Mentorship & collaboration: Coach engineers, run design reviews, and work with product/ops to deliver resilient releases.

Immediate Joiners with Strong OOP skills and with minimum 10 years experience. Do not apply if you do not have a minimum of 10 years experience.

Required qualifications

- Experience: 10+ years professional PHP; 3+ years in an architect/lead role shipping large apps. - Platform: Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce, OXID, Shopware - OOP mastery: Deep SOLID, common patterns (Strategy, Factory, Adapter, CQRS), and pragmatic refactoring. - Frameworks: Expert in Laravel and/or Symfony; strong Composer/autoloading knowledge. - Data layer: MySQL/PostgreSQL schema design, query tuning, migrations; caching with Redis; hands-on with search engines (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch). - E-commerce exposure: Built or scaled complex flows (promotions/discount engines, multi-store, multi-currency, tax, inventory, OMS). - Tooling: PHPUnit/Pest, static analysis (PHPStan/Psalm), linters, Git PR workflows, CI (GitHub Actions/GitLab/Jenkins). - APIs & async: REST/GraphQL design, webhooks, queues/workers (RabbitMQ/SQS), rate-limiting and idempotency patterns. - Soft skills: Clear communication, architectural documentation, and ability to lead cross-functional design discussions.

Nice to have

- Platforms: Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce, OXID, Shopware, Sylius, OroCommerce, or headless builds (e.g., Laravel/Symfony + headless storefronts like Next.js). - Payments & tax: Deep experience with Stripe/Adyen/Braintree/PayPal and tax services (Avalara/Vertex). - Front-end integration: Understanding of headless/SPA storefronts, GraphQL gateways, and edge caching/CDNs. - Cloud & DevOps: Basic AWS/GCP for PHP runtimes (FPM/Nginx), containers or serverless for specific workloads, IaC familiarity. - Event-driven: Kafka/EventBridge patterns for order events and downstream sync.

What we offer

- Competitive compensation and benefits - Flexible work options and supportive, collaborative culture - Budget for tools, and certifications - Opportunity to shape the architecture of high-traffic e-commerce systems

Industry

- Software Development

Employment Type

- Full-time