Senior Backend / Full-Stack Engineer | PHP, Laravel, Vue.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Microservices & AI Integration
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About the Position
We are seeking a Senior Backend/Full-Stack Engineer with expertise in PHP, Laravel, Vue.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and microservices for a fintech role in Italy.
Responsibilities
- Led backend architecture and development across multiple fintech services using Laravel, PostgreSQL, Redis, Python/FastAPI, Docker, and Horizon.
- Designed payment orchestration for SEPA Direct Debit flows, including idempotent transaction processing, Redis locking, retry strategies, webhook verification, chargeback reconciliation, and automated handling of payment failure codes.
- Designed the platform around five domain-driven bounded contexts and asynchronous processing with queues and dead-letter handling.
- Built multi-MID routing and verification workflows with resilient retry and idempotency mechanisms.
- Developed risk analytics capabilities including BIC-level chargeback analysis, IBAN verification, bank-level name matching, VOP enrichment, and risk scoring.
- Contributed to technical planning, architecture decisions, code reviews, performance improvements, production troubleshooting, and mentored 3–5 engineers.
Requirements
- PHP
- Laravel
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Python
- FastAPI
- Microservices
- REST API
- Git
- DDD
Nice to Have
- Vue.js
- JavaScript
- Docker
- Claude Code
- GitHub Copilot
Experience
Fintech Payment & Risk Management Platform
Senior Backend Engineer
About the Project
Fintech platform for payment processing, orchestration, merchant operations, and transaction risk management. The system handled SEPA Direct Debit payment flows, webhook processing, chargeback reconciliation, merchant routing, IBAN verification, and automated risk controls.
The platform was designed around domain-driven architecture with multiple bounded contexts and asynchronous processing for high-volume financial operations. It included automated retry and idempotency mechanisms, background processing, dead-letter handling, bank-level analytics, and monitoring of payment and chargeback activity.
I also worked on a Python/FastAPI risk analytics service that analyzed transaction and banking data to identify higher-risk activity and support automated operational decisions.
Education
Baku Engineering University
2012 - 2017
Information Technology and systems engineering
University of Genoa
2021 - 2025
Robotics Engineering
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