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Ascendion

Senior Full Stack Engineer (PHP/Laravel)

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Role:

  • Join the Product Engineering team to help modernize the Open Banking platform.

  • You'll work on customer-facing and internal platforms that power secure financial data sharing, enabling lenders and fintechs to make faster, smarter decisions.

  • This is a hands-on engineering role best suited for developers who enjoy solving backend problems, modernizing legacy applications, improving application security, and building scalable services using PHP/Laravel, MySQL, AWS, and React.

  • If you're currently coding every day and enjoy tackling complex technical challenges, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, test, and maintain scalable PHP/Laravel applications.

  • Develop and enhance RESTful APIs and backend services.

  • Modernize legacy applications while improving maintainability and security.

  • Optimize MySQL databases and application performance.

  • Build secure applications following OWASP and secure coding best practices.

  • Participate in code reviews and mentor junior engineers.

  • Work closely with product owners, QA, platform engineers, and security teams.

  • Support production issues and participate in troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

  • Use approved AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) responsibly to improve engineering productivity.

Required Skills:

  • 5+ years of commercial PHP development experience.

  • Recent hands-on Laravel development.

  • Strong knowledge of MySQL and relational database design.

  • Experience developing RESTful APIs.

  • Good understanding of object-oriented programming and software design principles.

  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

  • Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and collaborate with distributed teams.


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