Senior Backend Developer — Appliance.io

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join the Appliance.io Engineering team in Bandung.

This is a senior individual contributor role responsible for building, improving, and maintaining reliable backend systems that support Appliance.io's products and customers. You will work with our existing Laravel platform and Go services, improve legacy systems safely, strengthen automated testing, improve performance, and help maintain strong engineering standards.

This is a hands-on engineering position. You will be expected to solve complex backend problems independently, make sound technical decisions, review code, support other developers, and communicate risks or blockers early.

What You Will Do

• Build, maintain, and improve backend applications using PHP and Laravel.

• Build and maintain Go services that support the core platform.

• Develop and maintain APIs, integrations, webhooks, background workers, and asynchronous processes.

• Work with backend systems supporting orders, payments, inventory, catalog, delivery, and other business-critical workflows.

• Improve existing and legacy code safely without unnecessary rewrites.

• Design and optimize database queries, schemas, indexes, caching, and queue processing.

• Improve backend performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

• Write meaningful unit, integration, and other automated tests, especially for critical business and payment flows.

• Investigate production incidents and implement permanent corrective actions.

• Review other developers' code and provide clear, useful technical feedback.

• Mentor and support other Backend Developers through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.

• Document important technical and architectural decisions.

• Collaborate closely with Backend, Frontend, Product, QA, Infrastructure/DevOps, Customer Experience, and other technical stakeholders.

Technical Environment

Our backend environment includes:

• PHP / Laravel

• Go

• MySQL

• Redis

• Redis queues / Supervisor

• Meilisearch

• Laravel Echo Server / Socket.io

• Adyen / Stripe

• AWS

• Jenkins

• Nuxt.js / Vue.js integration

The platform also integrates with external systems and services such as Google Merchant Center, HubSpot, Twilio, Mailgun, and other providers.

What We Are Looking For

• Strong professional backend software development experience.

• Strong experience with PHP and Laravel.

• Experience with Go, or strong ability and willingness to work productively with Go services.

• Strong understanding of REST APIs, backend integrations, and database-driven applications.

• Strong knowledge of relational databases, especially MySQL.

• Experience with automated testing and writing maintainable, production-quality code.

• Experience troubleshooting production systems and identifying root causes.

• Good understanding of backend performance, database optimization, caching, queues, and asynchronous processing.

• Ability to work safely with legacy systems and make good decisions about when to refactor, improve, or leave existing code unchanged.

• Ability to review code and provide technical guidance to other developers.

• Strong ownership, problem-solving, and engineering judgment.

• Ability to work independently while remaining aligned with the wider Engineering team.

Mandatory Requirements

• Fluent spoken and written English.

• Able to communicate clearly in English in meetings, technical discussions, documentation, and daily collaboration.

• Willing and able to work 100% on-site at our Dago office in Bandung.

• This position is not remote and not hybrid.

• Able to work under a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) arrangement and provide a suitable personal computer for the role.

Employment Details

• Employment type: Full-time, permanent employment (PKWTT).

• Work arrangement: 100% on-site.

• Location: Dago, Bandung, West Java.

• Salary: Rp15,000,000 – Rp22,500,000 gross per month, depending on experience, technical capability, and overall fit.

• Equipment arrangement: BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).

If you are a senior backend engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, improving existing systems, and building reliable software for real production environments, we would like to hear from you.