Senior Backend Engineer - PHP / Laravel

Description

Summary: Blue Code is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (PHP/Laravel) with strong DevOps skills to build and scale a modern content operations platform with AI-powered features. Highlights: 1. Design, build, and maintain Laravel/PHP services for a content platform. 2. Own and improve AWS infrastructure, Docker deployments, and CI/CD pipelines. 3. Collaborate with Product, Design, and AI teams to ship features. 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 Job Description 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