Senior Backend PHP Developer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Backend PHP Developer

Description

Join a team building a scalable, secure, and resilient backend platform supporting rapid product growth. You will design core application services, remove architectural bottlenecks, architect distributed workflows, and lead initiatives from technical RFCs through deployment, observability, and post-launch stability.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product managers and stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical proposals

• Architect, build, and maintain high-traffic, business-critical backend services with reliability, low latency, and data security in mind

• Lead technical decision-making across service boundaries, domain modeling, data persistence, and deployment pipelines

• Identify performance bottlenecks, optimize database queries, and design robust distributed workflows

• Drive engineering excellence through high-standard code reviews, testing practices, and mentoring

• Own initiatives end-to-end: RFCs, system design, deployment, observability, and stability after launch

Requirements

• Extensive production backend experience with PHP (modern 8.x)

• Experience designing scalable RESTful APIs and clean domain models

• Familiarity with microservice/modular architecture

• Hands-on relational database experience (PostgreSQL or MySQL), including indexing and schema optimization

• Experience with caching strategies (e.g., Redis)

• Demonstrated ability to drive projects from concept to deployment with sound trade-offs between speed, scalability, and technical debt

• Mastery of automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end) and CI/CD pipelines

• Ability to write maintainable, well-documented code

Benefits

• Dedicated time for learning, conferences, online learning, and books

• Health and wellness support: online workouts, physical coach and gym, and regular mental health checks

• Tools of your choice for your work

• Community and celebrations (e.g., yearly workation, Friday get-togethers, team buildings)

• Commuting support: partial compensation of public transport costs (depending on circumstances)

• Work-life balance: office-based with up to two remote days per week and WFA option to work from almost anywhere

• Premium Surfshark accounts for you and your family/friends

• Gross salary: 5,600–7,200 EUR/month (Lithuania) or 23,800–33,400 PLN/month (Poland), depending on skills and experience