About Unicity

Unicity is Making Life Better globally through world-class health products and a leading business platform across 50+ countries. We're transforming our technology landscape and seek impactful engineers to join our Agile teams.

The Opportunity:

Drive the evolution of our customer-facing APIs as a Sr. API Engineer! We need a proactive leader with a strong sense of ownership to design, build, and deliver critical backend services. You'll leverage your extensive PHP/Laravel 10+ and AWS skills, alongside modern tools including AI assistants, to architect and implement solutions that directly enhance our customer experience and business capabilities. This is a key role in our modernization initiative, offering significant impact and the chance to shape our future API architecture.

What You'll Do:

Lead API Development: Take end-to-end ownership of designing, developing, testing, and deploying mission-critical RESTful APIs using PHP/Laravel.

1. Drive Modernization: Actively contribute to migrating legacy systems and implementing modern architectural patterns and best practices.
2. Deliver Business Value: Translate requirements into high-quality, scalable, and secure backend solutions that meet business objectives on AWS.
3. Optimize for Impact: Employ AI tools strategically (e.g., Copilot) to accelerate delivery and focus on high-value engineering tasks.
4. Architectural Contribution: Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to evolving our API architecture (microservices experience valued).
5. Ensure Reliability: Implement robust testing (PHPUnit), monitoring, and security practices; troubleshoot complex production issues.
6. Collaborate Across Teams: Work effectively with product managers, DevOps, and other engineers in a fast-paced Agile environment, managing dependencies proactively.

What You Bring:

1. Proven Sr. Impact: Demonstrated success (5+ years) in senior engineering roles with a history of delivering impactful, complex backend projects.
2. Laravel & PHP Expert: Deep, hands-on experience with PHP and the Laravel framework (10+ strongly preferred).
3. AWS Cloud Expertise: Proven ability to design, build, and operate applications effectively on AWS.
4. Strategic AI User: Experience using AI-assisted tools pragmatically to boost productivity and deliver results efficiently.
5. API Architecture & Design: Strong grasp of RESTful principles and experience contributing to scalable API design (microservices a plus).
6. Database Mastery: Proficiency with MS SQL Server/PostgreSQL and caching solutions.

• Quality & Testing Focus: Commitment to high code quality through rigorous testing (PHPUnit). • Agile & DevOps Fluency: Skilled in Git, CI/CD, Docker, and collaborating within Agile/DevOps cultures.

1. Resilient & Proactive: Excellent problem-solving ability; thrives on tackling challenges, taking initiative, and navigating complex environments.
2. Influential Communicator: Strong ability to articulate technical decisions and collaborate effectively across teams.

Highly Desirable:

1. HP legacy migration experience.
2. Node.js/JavaScript/TypeScript familiarity.
3. Queuing systems (Laravel Horizon, AWS SQS).
4. E-commerce background.
5. OAuth/JWT knowledge.

Why Join Unicity?

Own critical pieces of a global platform's modernization. See your work directly impact customers and the business. Shape technical direction and grow in a dynamic, transforming environment

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