Senior PHP Backend Engineer

Bill better, grow more. Our client provides the strongest foundation of billing services, plus the AI tools clients need to grow their business. They handle hundreds of millions of shoppers for thousands of leading online businesses around the world. This is a fast-growing fintech company in the high-risk industry. They hear time and time again that their people are what makes the difference. Their people are their competitive advantage. Technical Requirements Expert-level knowledge of PHP and the Symfony framework Professional, production-grade experience with DDD, Event Sourcing, and CQRS Working experience with Docker, AWS, and DevOps. AI experience (e.g., Cursor, Kiro) General Requirements Excellent English and communication skills (daily interaction in English involved) Previous experience in financial services is highly desirable Passion for learning, sharing, and working with other people Self-direction and independent problem-solving skills 6 hours overlap with CET - while hours are flexible, you should generally be available most of the time, daily between 10-18, Central European time Self-motivated and self-disciplined to work remotely What will you do? Make an impact by contributing to the development of the backend modules with feature implementation, integrations, code refactoring, and bug fixing if needed. Proactively contribute to software architecture and distributed systems-related decisions to reduce technical debt Find creative solutions to tricky problems, but stay focused on simplicity and maintainability Write maintainable and clean code, covered with automated tests Talk to stakeholders and understand what they need Continuously learning about the Payments Industry Why Them? 100% remote - you will work from your own home or office, wherever you are 23 paid vacation days Free day on your birthday Annual company retreat 10+ years of success in the exciting Payment Industry Long-standing, amazing work culture Laptop About the team and their tools They are a small team of software engineers with varied backgrounds and solid experience in a wide range of technologies. They're passionate explorers, working synchronously and asynchronously in tightly knit teams where communication, respect, fun, and responsibility are key factors to success. Tjeir development process is agile - we do Scrum, using Jira and Confluence to track and document everything. The organization is flat and open-minded, giving each individual a lot of flexibility and freedom as long as they take ownership, get things done to a high standard, and stay aligned with the team and company visions. They mainly use PHP to create and maintain our products, which are running on AWS, using services like EC2, ECS, RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, and CloudFront. They deploy their code using CodePipeline and use containers, CI/CD, and automated testing. Around their core billing product, they build and maintain a lot of services like a payment processing platform, backend client administration, a customer portal, a storefront, APIs, reports, and other data tools.