Backend Engineer

About the role

Arab Therapy is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to build and scale the core of its mental‑health platform. You will own features from design through production and take responsibility for the underlying infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure RESTful APIs in Laravel for Vue web and Flutter mobile apps.
• Own the full feature lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, code review, deployment and production monitoring.
• Design and optimise MySQL schemas, queries and indexing to handle growing data volumes.
• Integrate third‑party services such as payment gateways, video/communication providers and notification systems.
• Contribute to DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, AWS cloud infrastructure, environment management, monitoring, logging and incident response.

Required profile

• 4–8 years of professional backend experience, with at least 3 years building production applications in Laravel/PHP.
• Strong MySQL expertise: schema design, complex queries, indexing strategy and performance tuning.
• Hands‑on DevOps experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager), CI/CD pipelines and Linux server administration.
• Fluent in Arabic and English, both written and spoken.

Required skills

• Laravel ecosystem (Eloquent, queues, jobs, events, scheduling, caching, Sanctum/Passport, PHPUnit/Pest).
• MySQL, Redis, Docker, Nginx, PHP‑FPM.
• AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager).
• CI/CD tools (Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions or similar).
• Git workflows, code reviews, Jira.