Senior/ Lead PHP Engineer (with AI Skills)
N-iX, Romania +3
The role
Toronto time zone. Project duration - 3 months.
We're looking for a mature, Senior/Lead PHP Engineer with deep Laravel expertise and hands-on experience building or integrating agentic AI systems. You'll take ownership of complex backend features end-to-end, mentor other engineers, and help shape how AI-driven automation and agents fit into our product and internal workflows.
What you will do
- Design, build, and maintain robust backend services and APIs using PHP and Laravel
- Own features from technical design through deployment and monitoring
- Integrate and orchestrate agentic AI workflows (e.g., LLM-based agents, tool-calling pipelines, autonomous task runners) into existing products or internal tooling
- Improve system performance, reliability, and security across the stack
- Stay current with the PHP/Laravel ecosystem and emerging agentic AI tools and patterns