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