Native PHP Developer

**Job Description** **Location:** Fully remote, from Vietnam **Start date:** ASAP **Languages:** Fluent English is mandatory **Industry:** Mobile Payment / Digital Monetization / Carrier Billing (Telecom & Fintech) Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a global leader in mobile payment and digital content monetization. Operating across 60+ countries, our client connects telecom operators, merchants, content providers, media companies and brands, powering billing capabilities (Direct Carrier Billing, Mobile Money, Local Payment Methods), content distribution, interactivity programs and multi-channel activations. Their platforms process high-volume transactions and seamless user journeys at scale. **Professional Background:** We're looking for a **Native PHP Developer** with **5 to 10 years of experience** building and maintaining high-throughput, production-grade backend systems. You should have strong command of core (vanilla) PHP, not just framework-driven development, and direct experience with transaction-heavy, mission-critical applications. Experience in payments, billing, telecom, or any high-availability transactional environment is a strong plus. Autonomy, rigor, and problem-solving are essential, as is comfort working independently in a distributed, cross-timezone team. **Your Responsibilities:** - Design, develop and maintain robust backend services in **native PHP (7/8)**, with clean, testable and well-documented code. - Build and optimize **high-volume transaction and billing workflows**, ensuring reliability, idempotency and data integrity at scale. - Develop and maintain **REST/SOAP APIs** for operator, merchant and third-party integrations. - Work with **relational databases** (MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL): schema design, query optimization, indexing and performance tuning. - Integrate with external systems and gateways (payment, messaging/SMS, USSD, carrier connections, monitoring, billing). - Implement **asynchronous processing** using message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka) and caching layers (Redis/Memcached). - Ensure application **security, resilience and observability** (logging, metrics, alerting) in a high-availability context. - Contribute to **CI/CD pipelines**, code reviews, and Git-based workflows. - Collaborate with product, ops and QA teams to ship, monitor and continuously improve services in production. **What You Bring:** - Expert-level **native/core PHP** (7/8), solid OOP, design patterns, and clean architecture. - Proven experience with **high-throughput, transactional backend systems** (mandatory). - Strong **SQL** skills (MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL): modeling, optimization, debugging. - Solid experience designing and consuming **REST/SOAP APIs**. - Comfort with **Linux** environments, **Git** and **CI/CD** workflows. - Familiarity with **message queues** (RabbitMQ/Kafka), **caching** (Redis), and asynchronous processing. - Good understanding of application **security** and data integrity in sensitive/financial contexts. - Fluent English and the ability to work autonomously across timezones. **Nice To Have:** - Exposure to **payment, billing, or telecom** platforms (DCB, Premium SMS, USSD, Mobile Money, LPM). - Experience with a modern PHP framework (Symfony, Laravel) alongside native PHP. - **Docker / containerization** and basic CI/CD tooling. - Familiarity with monitoring/logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Graylog). - Awareness of **PCI-DSS** or other security/compliance standards. **Why Join Us:** Our client is a well-established, international player shaping the future of mobile payments and digital monetization, connecting operators, merchants and brands across dozens of markets. You'll work on platforms that process transactions at real scale, in a dynamic and fast-paced environment that values autonomy, ownership and technical excellence, where your contributions directly impact revenue-critical systems used worldwide. Pragmatike is dedicated to a fair, transparent, and inclusive recruitm…