**Description:** ---------------- **Are you looking for a solid company in Project Management, Business Analysis, and Agile Transformation?** **PPM Coachers**, with 17 years of market experience, delivers training, consulting, and team augmentation services, supporting organizations in defining operational models, driving continuous improvement, and enabling agile transformation. **Why PPM Coachers?** * Participation in high-impact strategic projects. * Opportunity to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams within digital evolution contexts. * Close mentoring, continuous professional development, and integration into an experienced, excellence-oriented team. **PPM Coachers is recruiting for the role of PHP | Laravel Backend Developer!** **Your mission:** * Actively contribute, mentor, and provide technical coaching to a PHP + Laravel backend development team in product development and maintenance activities. * Design, develop, and maintain backend services and web applications using PHP, Laravel, Eloquent, GraphQL, and MSSQL (database design and modeling). * Implement GraphQL for efficient data querying and manipulation. * Write well-structured, testable, and efficient code. * Apply AI-Augmented Software Development approaches (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, among others) and AI-Agentic approaches (AI agents for planning, coding, testing, and integrating software). * Produce high-quality, maintainable code, ensuring robust automated unit test coverage using PHPUnit. * Collaborate closely with Product Owners, other Developers, and UX/UI Designers. * Work with multidisciplinary teams to embed DevOps practices across the entire development lifecycle. * Use Jira and GitLab for project tracking, version control, and collaboration. * Apply agile methodologies to deliver iterative, high-quality software solutions. **Requirements:** ----------------- * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. * 5+ years of professional experience with PHP, Laravel, Eloquent, GraphQL, and SQL. * Strong expertise in database modeling and design (Microsoft SQL Server). * Experience writing automated unit tests using PHPUnit. * Solid knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD processes. * Proven competence in applying AI-Augmented and AI-Agentic approaches to software development. * Experience with tools such as Jira and GitLab. * Proficiency in agile methodologies and collaborative environments. * Excellent problem-solving skills and clear communication abilities. * Fluency in English, both written and spoken. * **Work location:** Lisbon **Work model:** 3 days per week in the office / Week-on, week-off.