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Senior Backend Engineer (Laravel)

Full-time · Remote (IT/EU) · Talent pool: opens as we grow

APIs, queues, webhooks, cron and payments: Grace's backend orchestrates AI evaluations, gamification and a B2B HR module. You will make it ready for 1,000× today's traffic.

What you will do

Design and evolve the APIs (evaluations, Arena, certifications, HR module)
Robustness: rate limiting, Stripe webhook idempotency, queues and retries
MySQL performance: indexes, queries, caching
Application security: JWT auth, sessions, anti-abuse protection
Scheduled automations (job fetching, weekly leagues, email)

What we are looking for

5+ years of backend work, with Laravel (or an equivalent MVC framework) in production
Experience with payments, webhooks and event-driven systems
Real-world MySQL/PostgreSQL optimisation skills
Product mindset: the backend serves users, not itself
Fluent Italian or English

Think you qualify?

The selection is already open: 5 real senior scenarios evaluated by Grace's AI, minimum score 70/100, retries allowed. Test your skills now →

Interested? Send your CV or LinkedIn profile to [email protected]: when we start hiring, we call first those who stepped forward.

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