Build and maintain PHP/Symfony backend services and Vue 3 frontend features for an event and conference platform. Responsibilities include designing modular services, developing REST APIs and UI widgets, modeling Doctrine entities, optimizing MySQL queries, integrating third-party services, writing unit and functional tests, maintaining technical documentation, and deploying and troubleshooting production systems.
About Us: Platinumlist.net, a pioneering leader in the online event guide and ticketing solution industry, has been revolutionizing the event landscape in the Gulf region since 2009. As the largest ticketing provider in the GCC, we proudly serve an extensive array of events across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait from our Dubai-based headquarters.
Our Expertise: We specialize in a diverse range of ticketing solutions, catering
to various sectors including:
- Large and Small Entertainment Events
- Comprehensive Business Events, including Visitor Registration Services and Badging
- Diverse Sports Event Ticketing
- Tourism Attraction Ticketing
- Advanced Box Office Solutions for Venues including Stadiums, Theatres, and Cinemas
- Innovative Marketing Solutions for Event Promotion
About the Role: We're looking for a Software Engineer to help build our international platform for business events and conferences. The platform includes an attendee registration form builder and an API powering a mobile app for event schedules, networking, and tickets.
Our backend consists of docker services behind a shared API gateway. Each service is a modular monolith using DDD, CQRS, Vertical Slices, and Onion Architecture. Our frontend services are built with Vue 3.
Stack:
- PHP 8.5 (Symfony 8 with Doctrine)
- RoadRunner
- MySQL
- Redis
- RabbitMQ
- MinIO/S3
- CI/CD: Taskfile, Bitbucket Pipelines
- Quality Tools: PHPUnit, PHPStan, PHP-CS-Fixer, Rector, Deptrac, Infection
- Git (trunk-based)
- Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket
- Vue 3, Vite
- Tailwind CSS
Key Responsibilities:
- Design new services, and support the existing ones.
- Build markup, develop widgets and UI.
- Cover changes with unit/functional tests.
- Design Doctrine entities, optimize MySQL.
- Integrate with third-party services.
- Maintain technical documentation.
- Deploy and troubleshoot production issues.
Requirements
- Experience developing and maintaining PHP/Symfony applications in production.
- Experience structuring applications into modules with clear responsibilities and dependencies. Familiarity with DDD.
- Experience building REST APIs and integrating services.
- Experience in Vue 3, including layout, UI behaviour, and API integration.
- Experience with MySQL and Doctrine: designing entities and their relationships, reading query execution plans, and optimising slow queries.
- Testing as part of your normal workflow, and comfort in a codebase where static analysis, architectural rules, and code style are enforced in CI.
- Habit of documenting what you build so that the next person can pick it up.
- Ability to read/write technical documentation and tickets in English.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- Remote-friendly work setup.
- A chance to make a real impact in a fast-growing market.
- Space to grow, experiment, and push boundaries.
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