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title: "Senior/ Lead PHP Engineer (with AI Skills)"
company: "N-iX"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/n-ix"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/n-ix-senior-lead-php-engineer-with-ai-skills-b9ba77c2-4a15-41de-8b0c-8ee0c7e1b4a3"
apply_url: "https://careers.n-ix.com/jobs/4977089101?gh_jid=4977089101"
workplace: onsite
location: "Uruguay"
employment_type: unspecified
seniority: lead
role: ai-machine-learning
region: latin-america
skills: ["aws", "docker", "gcp", "llm", "mysql", "php", "postgres"]
date_posted: 2026-09-18T15:40:54.000Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-19T22:11:55.143Z
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# Senior/ Lead PHP Engineer (with AI Skills)

**N-iX** · Uruguay

Apply: https://careers.n-ix.com/jobs/4977089101?gh_jid=4977089101

## About the role

**Toronto time zone**

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.

**About the client:**

Our client is a leading online car marketplace group operating across Europe and North America, bringing together market-leading brands to shape the future of our industry by combining the best of both regions.

**What You'll 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

**What You Need to Succeed:**

- 6+ years of professional PHP development experience

- 4+ years building applications with Laravel (or comparable modern PHP framework experience with strong Laravel proficiency)

- Solid database skills (MySQL/PostgreSQL), including query optimization and schema design

- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and cloud deployment (AWS, GCP, or similar)

- Strong communication skills and the judgment to work independently on ambiguous problems

- Hands-on GenAI experience — you've built with LLM APIs, tool/function calling, retrieval, agents, or agent frameworks and put them into real workflows.

- Modern AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex) are part of how you work day to day.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills — you work well in a team, share your opinions clearly, and can move a topic forward with people across functions.

- Solid engineering fundamentals: testing, debugging, code quality, and getting things production-ready.

- English - at least Upper Intermediate+

- Work in EDT (Toronto) time zone
**We offer*:**

- Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible

- A competitive salary and good compensation package

- Personalized career growth

- Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)

- Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing

- Education reimbursement

- Memorable anniversary presents

- Corporate events and team buildings

- Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers

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