Senior Backend Engineer (PHP) Lisboa

Senior Backend Engineer (PHP)
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Title: Senior Backend Developer (PHP)

Department: Engineering

Location: UK or Europe, Remote

About Block Labs

Block Labs is a leading force in the Web3 space, incubating, investing in, and accelerating
- tier fintech, crypto and i
Gaming projects. With a mission to shape the future of decentralized technology, we partner with visionary startups to raise funding, refine
- market fit, and grow their audiences. Our diverse team drives innovation, using deep industry expertise and an extensive network to empower the next wave of
- driven companies. At Block Labs, we’re passionate about turning bold ideas into breakthrough success.

About The Role

We’re currently building a
-
-
- art, modular,
- tenant i
Gaming platform. This role sits at the core of the engineering team responsible for developing highly scalable services, intuitive frontend interfaces, and seamless
- party integrations, including games.

As a Senior Backend Developer, you’ll work closely with the Tech Lead and
- functional squads to deliver microservices and backend components. We’re looking for someone with a polyglot mindset — comfortable adapting to different technologies as needed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using
  Laravel.
• Collaborate with
  - functional squads to deliver
  - quality features and integrations.
• Build
  - tenant features with clear data separation and high configurability.
• Integrate
  - party APIs and services, including payment processors, game providers, wallets, and analytics tools.
• Ensure the performance, security, and observability of all systems.
• Write clean, maintainable code and conduct peer reviews.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment processes.
• Contribute to internal tools and libraries that improve engineering efficiency.

About You:

• 5+ years of experience in backend development with
  Laravel, or other modern PHP frameworks such as
  Symfony or
  Phalcon.
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture, REST APIs, and microservices.
• Familiar with
  - tenant systems, RBAC, and secure backend development.
• Exposure to observability practices, structured logging, and distributed systems.
• Comfortable working in
  - native environments and using modern Dev
  Ops practices.
• Experience with
  Javaor a modern Java
  Script framework is aplus.
• Strong communication skills and a proactive mindset in
  - first teams.
• Bonus: experience in the i
  Gaming industry.