PHP Developer (Cebu - Onsite)
Work Location: Cebu
Work set-up: Onsite (Dayshift)
Job Responsibilities :
· Develop and maintain the customer-facing mobile backend API on CodeIgniter 3.x / PHP 8.x running on a managed PaaS app platform, serving the iOS and Android clients.
· Build, schedule, and troubleshoot batch and cron jobs for data preparation, aggregation, and delivery.
· Enhance and support the operator admin CMS on Laravel 6.x / PHP 7.2+, covering master data, promotion, and campaign management screens.
· Develop and operate the promotion/coupon APIs on Laravel 9 / PHP 8.x deployed to a container-based serverless runtime — covering both in-store POS transaction flows and app-side offer list and stock queries.
· Maintain the reporting batch — scheduled operational reports generated via console commands and exported to cloud storage.
· Write and maintain event-driven serverless functions in PHP and Python for master data synchronization, push notifications, and spreadsheet parsing via object-storage and HTTP triggers.
· Support and extend serverless container jobs written in TypeScript/Node for data processing and analytics feeds.
· Design and tune relational database schemas, complex queries, and indexes behind all of the above services.
· Diagnose production incidents across both cloud runtimes using centralized logging, and resolve maintenance tickets raised by the client and offshore teams.
· Maintain unit tests and support the Cypress/TypeScript end-to-end suite to keep CMS releases stable.
· Perform peer code reviews, approve pull requests, and coordinate release and deployment activity.
· Communicate directly with the client, offshore teams, and mobile app developers.
Must-Have Skills :
At least 5 years of experience in Backend Development using PHP/OOP PHP/PHP 7.2 and PHP 8.x.
CodeIgniter as Platform (Hands-on CI3 — controllers, models, libraries, helpers, hooks, routing, and CI-style database queries.)
Laravel 6 and Laravel 9
REST API design
Cloud platform operations
Batch & cron processing
Relational database
Legacy maintenance mindset