Backend Developer Consultant

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A taste of what you’ll do

The Middle Backend Developer builds and maintains the backend services that integrate third-party game providers into the platform. The role covers the technical lifecycle of an integration — from provider specification through implementation to production support — and owns the reliability of the services handling game launches, bet and win transactions and provider callbacks. It suits a developer comfortable working against external specifications and third-party systems they don't control.

• Implement and maintain integrations with third-party game providers in PHP / L aravel , working from provider API specifications and integration documents
• Handle game transaction flows — launch, bet, win, rollback, reconciliation
• Design and optimise database schemas and queries in database
• Investigate and resolve integration issues with providers, including direct technical liaison with their engineering contacts
• Investigate and resolve production incidents affecting game availability or player transactions, including participation in the on-call rota
• Write and maintain automated tests, including coverage of provider edge cases and failure modes
• Participate in code review, sprint planning, refinement and retrospectives
• Keep integration documentation current, including provider-specific behaviour and known quirks
• Apply secure development practices and comply with regulatory, licensing and data protection requirements
• Support and mentor junior developers on the team
• Any other task/responsibility which may be related and/or connected to your role as Middle Backend Developer

Who and what we are after?

• Minimum 3 years' commercial PHP development experience
• Basic working knowledge of Python
• Strong Laravel experience, including Eloquent, queues, service container and Artisan tooling
• Comfortable working in an older procedural PHP codebase alongside modern framework code, and migrating between the two
• Practical experience integrating third-party REST APIs, including handling authentication, retries, timeouts and inconsistent provider behaviour
• Competent with relational databases: schema design, indexing, query optimisation
• Understanding of transactional integrity, concurrency and idempotency in financial or wallet-style operations
• Experience with RabbitMQ or a comparable message broker — consumers, queue configuration, handling stuck or piling messages
• Redis for caching and pub/sub
• Experience with Git, branching workflows and CI/CD pipelines
• Automated testing with PHPUnit ; familiarity with static analysis and style tooling ( PHPStan , PHPMD, Laravel Pint)
• Docker, and basic familiarity with Kubernetes for local development
• Able to debug production issues across service boundaries and identify whether a fault is ours or the provider's
• Clear written and spoken English, sufficient for direct correspondence with external provider teams
• Able to work independently on assigned scope while escalating blockers early
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience

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