Senior Backend Engineer | Remote | LATAM Only | 89010
Core
Senior Backend Engineer owning the charge pipeline and backend ecosystem for financial aid, campus card balances, and textbook rentals across 1,200 university bookstores on Shopify.
Role type
Senior Backend Engineer (PHP/Laravel)
Builds
Charge pipeline, reconciliation systems, and scheduled jobs for financial transactions
Domain
E-commerce, Fintech, Higher Education
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
PHP 8.4, Laravel 11/12, SQL Server (query-plan level), Azure, asynchronous systems (idempotency, retries, dead letter queues, locks), SOAP/XML/SFTP integrations, automated testing
Preferred skills
Shopify Admin API, TypeScript, Node.js (Remix/NestJS), Prisma, BullMQ, Playwright, fintech/billing experience
Technologies
PHP 8.4, Laravel 11/12, Pest/PHPUnit, PHPStan, SQL Server, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Redis, BullMQ, Azure Container Apps, GitHub Actions, Shopify GraphQL
Responsibilities
Own the charge pipeline end-to-end (coverage, tax, shipping, refunds, multi-fulfillment), diagnose production orders across five services, perform daily triage of reconciliation reports, manage scheduled jobs and recovery commands, manage delivery end-to-end (branching, PRs, QA, GitHub Actions deployments), create regression tests for bug fixes
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC