Senior PHP Developer

We’re looking for a 

• Senior PHP Backend Dev with 5+ years of PHP/Laravel experience and a testing mindset (PHPUnit) and CI/CD, Docker/K8 experience. 
• To help us evolve our large Laravel monolith into a scalable and reliable architecture. 
• You’ll collaborate with senior engineers on performance, data, and integrations that power revenue-critical workflows.

Stack 

• Backend: Laravel, GoLang, PHPUnit. Frontend: Angular 
• Databases & Queues: MySQL (clustered), Redis, RabbitMQ/Kafka (nice to have)
• Infra: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Git

What You’ll Do

• Refactor & scale a large PHP/Laravel codebase from monolith to microservices.
• Participate in database improvements for throughput and reliability
• Write maintainable, well-tested code (PHPUnit) and review peers’ changes
• Profile/optimize critical paths and help improve observability
• Leverage AI-powered coding & testing tools (we pay for them) to increase productivity and code quality.
• Integrate 3rd party services to create a world-class enterprise product.

Company (AR Proactive) and Product (Workflows)

• AR Proactive is a 10-year B2B SaaS company in healthcare/fintech (HQ: Chicago) with a global, 19-person product/engineering team (CTO, Engineers, PM, QA). 
• You’ll work on Workflows, our 5-year-old automation platform, at a pivotal moment as we scale from MVP to enterprise. We’re fully remote and flexible, move fast with low bureaucracy, value clear communication, and equip engineers with premium AI developer tools to do high-impact work.

Hiring process

1. Deep-dive PHP Interview, hands-on Laravel + database exercise, architecture/scalability discussion
2. Team fit (communication, collaboration, culture)