Senior Backend Engineer - PHP / Laravel

Blue Code Solutions

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Posted: May 14, 2026

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Job Description

Job Information

Date Opened

13/05/2026

Job Type

Full time

Industry

Technology

Work Experience

+7 years

Salary

Negotiable

City

Valencia

Province

Valencia / València

Country

Spain

Postal Code

46024
Blue Code is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer (PHP / Laravel) with strong DevOps skills to join a growing engineering team for our client in Valencia. You'll work closely with a Tech Lead, Product Manager and Designer to build and scale the backend of a modern content operations platform with AI-powered features.

This is a hands-on role combining backend excellence with real DevOps ownership. You'll be part of the engineering team in Spain of this company, originally from the Netherlands.

Responsibilities:

Design, build and maintain Laravel/PHP services powering the content operations platform

Own and improve AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3), Docker-based deployments and CI/CD pipelines

Model and optimize MySQL schemas, queries and indexes for performance at scale

Following SOLID principles, modern PHP best practices and cover your work with unit tests (PHPUnit / Pest)

Collaborate closely with Product, Design and AI teams to ship features pragmatically

Requirements

Minimum 7 years of backend development

Strong hands-on expertise with Laravel and modern PHP (8.x)

Solid hands-on DevOps experience: AWS (EC2, RDS, S3), Docker and CI/CD pipelines

Solid MySQL skills: schema design, query optimization and indexing

Experience writing unit tests with PHPUnit or Pest

Comfortable with Git workflows (branching, code reviews, rebasing)

Effective use of AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor) in daily work

Product-minded engineer who used to colaborete with designers, PMs and frontend engineers

Fluent English (minimum B2) is a must

Nice to Have (but not required)

Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) or Kubernetes

Experience with GitLab CI specifically

Knowledge / Experience with React or other modern frontend frameworks

Experience in startup or scale-up environments

Interest in AI-powered products or workflow automation

Benefits

Be part of the first engineering team in Valencia of this company

Work on a modern, AI-enabled B2B product

High trust, low bureaucracy, real ownership

Permanent contract from day one

Hybrid work model in Valencia

Free parking at the office

Quarterly trips to Amsterdam for team alignment

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