Senior Backend Engineer - Laravel & Go Microservices (Remote, Latin America)

About the role

FullStack is an AI engineering partner that connects software professionals with U.S. clients for flexible, project-based development work. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you join its talent network and work remotely, integrating directly into a client's team alongside their designers and engineers on a daily basis.

Required profile

• 5+ years of professional experience in backend software engineering
• Advanced English
• Completed a four-year college degree
• Experience on Agile/Scrum teams and with large, complex systems
• Ability to take extreme ownership and work through difficult issues
• Availability to work standard business hours aligned with Pacific Time (PT)
• Must be authorized to work in the country of the posting on a full-time basis; FullStack does not sponsor work visas

Required skills

• Developed, deployed and maintained core monolithic backends with Laravel and PHP
• Extracted monolithic logic and rewrote it as Go microservices
• Scaled backend infrastructure for high-traffic launches and high-concurrency loads
• On-call rotation with strict SLAs (e.g., 15 minutes)
• CI/CD for applications
• Nice to have: payments, redemptions or fraud prevention pipelines; Next.js or React Native; AI coding assistants such as Claude Code or Cursor

What we offer

• Competitive pay
• 100% remote work
• Work with leading startups and Fortune 500 companies
• Continuing education opportunities and career growth