Backend Developer - PHP

What’s in store for you:

In this fully remote position, you’ll be joining a Proxy Squad and developing complex products and working with an infrastructure processing petabytes of data. Expect challenges that will elevate your expertise, loads of ownership, the latest tech stack, and effective collaboration with a large team of engineering professionals.

You can read more about behind the scenes of PHP here.

Your day-to-day:

• Write clean, reusable code and improve best practices.
• Design and build scalable, high-performance systems.
• Own and justify technical and architectural decisions.
• Knowledge sharing with other engineers.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver quality solutions.
• Resolve complex issues and document solutions.
• Share knowledge and mentor team members.
• Support hiring and contribute to team growth.
• Bring fresh ideas and drive innovation.

Your skills & experiences:

• Profound knowledge in PHP, particularly with the Symfony framework (familiarity with other modern frameworks is beneficial).
• Strong backend development skills.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Ability to design and implement APIs effectively.
• Experience with relational databases, specifically MySQL.
• Experience with message brokers like Apache Kafka.
• Familiarity with Redis and its use for caching or data management.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Sentry, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Comfortable working in Agile teams and processes.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Nice to have:



• Hands on experience working with Kubernetes.
• Experience in integrating with 3rd party vendors