Senior Software Engineer - PHP

CanadaRemoteFull TimeSeniorPosted 2 months ago

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Role summary

A high-growth sports gaming startup is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with strong PHP and Laravel experience to scale their core betting platform. This remote role, based anywhere in Canada, involves building and scaling a Laravel-based platform, writing reliable backend systems, and contributing to internal tools using Python. The engineer will collaborate with product and engineering teams, improve infrastructure, and work within an experienced remote engineering team. The position offers significant ownership of core backend systems for a platform used by millions.

Senior Backend Engineer (PHP / Laravel)

🇨🇦 Remote anywhere Canada (must live in Canada already) | Engineering

🚀 High-growth sports gaming startup

A fast-growing gaming platform is looking for a
Senior Backend Engineer
to help scale their core betting platform. This is a high-impact role focused on
PHP / Laravel
, powering the systems that support millions of users across multiple products.

What you’ll do

- Build and scale a
Laravel-based platform
powering core business logic
- Write clean, reliable backend systems used by real customers
- Contribute to internal tools in
Python
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver new features
- Improve deployments, infrastructure, and engineering processes
- Work in a remote team with other experienced backend engineers

Tech

PHP • Laravel • Python • SQL

Bonus: AWS • Docker • Kubernetes • CI/CD

Who you are

- Strong
PHP
skills with deep
Laravel
experience
- Solid understanding of
databases and system design
- Comfortable working remotely in a collaborative team
- Takes ownership and delivers high-quality, maintainable code

Nice to have: DevOps experience, async systems, JVM languages.

Why this role is exciting

- Real ownership of
core backend systems
- Build for a platform used by millions of users
- Fast-growing company with new products and markets
- Remote-friendly setup with an experienced engineering team

If you’re a strong Laravel engineer ready to take ownership and scale real systems, let’s connect.

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