PHP / full-stack developer for Ticketmatic core team

Ticketmatic; Belgique; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 85 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Full-time contract

Challenging role with real impact

Pleasant office in a calm environment

High flexibility: office & remote

Competitive salary with attractive ex-

Résumé du poste

Ticketmatic is building a SaaS platform used for 24/7 ticket sales by thousands of buyers and venues. You will work on the backend (PHP / Symfony or Laravel) and contribute to a high-availability system while integrating with partners like UiTPAS and various payments.

You’ll build features end-to-end with Product & UX, contribute to Vue.js interfaces, and help optimize performance. Leuven-based with hybrid work up to 2 days per week, joining a small core team and evolving in a scale-up

Qualifications

• Strong experience with PHP (Symfony or Laravel).
• Solid experience with JavaScript and modern frameworks (Vue.js).
• Experience with complex, long-lived systems.
• Knowledge of git, testing, documentation, CI/CD, versioning.
• Good understanding of web technologies & APIs (HTML, JSON, REST).
• Problem-solving mindset and willingness to take ownership.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work autonomously.

Responsabilités

• Develop and improve the backend of our ticketing platform (PHP / Symfony or Laravel).
• Contribute to a high-availability system (24/7) used for continuous ticket sales.
• Build and maintain partner integrations (UiTPAS, payment providers, CRMs).
• Implement new product features end-to-end with Product & UX.
• Contribute to ticketshop UIs using Vue.js / Inertia.
• Analyse performance and implement optimisations.
• Help monitor the platform.
• Debug complex issues and shape long-term architectural decisions.
• Review code and contribute to engineering standards.

Connaissances

PHP (Symfony or Laravel)

JavaScript

Vue.js / Inertia

Git

Testing

CI/CD

REST APIs

Outils

Docker

Kubernetes

Description du poste

Ticketmatic builds a SaaS platform that distributes 15+ million event tickets per year.

Our customers include the largest concert halls and theatres in Belgium, the Netherlands and beyond, such as Ancienne Belgique, Flagey, De Roma, Koninklijk Theater Carré, and Theater Rotterdam.

As a developer, you will work directly on our core applications, software used daily by thousands of ticket buyers and venue staff. You’ll ship improvements and features, working in a focused core product team of ~5 developers.

Our platform handles complex ticketing logic, payments, partner ecosystems and continuous traffic. Tickets are sold 24/7, so reliability and performance are essential.

What you’ll be doing

You will:

• Develop and improve the backend of our ticketing platform (PHP / Symfony or Laravel)

• Contribute to a high-availability system (24/7) used for continuous ticket sales

• Build and maintain partner integrations (e.g. UiTPAS, payment providers, access control, CRMs)

• Implement new product features end-to-end with Product & UX

• Contribute to ticketshop UIs using Vue.js / Inertia

• Analyse performance and implement optimisations

• Help monitor the platform

• Debug complex issues and shape long-term architectural decisions

• Review code and contribute to engineering standards

• You Build It, You Run It

Examples of real work:

• Building a waitlist system for sold-out events

• Investigating & improving performance bottlenecks

• Technical upgrades

• Monitoring systems during exceptional peak sales

What makes this role interesting

• Mission-critical: Your work powers daily operations of major cultural venues

• Technical complexity: Inventory, time windows, price rules, payments, realtime data

• Plugin architecture: Build on top of a platform that allows deep customisation

• Ecosystem integrations: Payments, CRMs, identity, access control, UiTPAS, …

• Always-on: Ticketing never sleeps: we operate 24/7

Practical details

Location: Leuven (Belgium)

Hybrid: up to 2 days/week remote

Core team: ~5 developers (within a company of ~25)

Stage: Scale-up with international expansion

What we offer

• Full-time contract

• A challenging role where you can learn a lot and build real impact

• A new and pleasant office in a calm environment with great colleagues

• High flexibility in combining office & remote work

• Competitive salary with attractive extras

You are a fit if you have…

• Strong experience with PHP (Symfony or Laravel)

• Solid experience with JavaScript and modern frameworks (Vue.js, Inertia is a plus)

• Experience with complex, long-lived systems (Ticketmatic has 10+ years of product evolution)

• Knowledge of standard software engineering practices:

  git, testing, documentation, CI/CD, versioning

• Good understanding of web technologies & APIs

  (HTML, JSON, REST, browser APIs, …)

• A problem-solving mindset and willingness to take ownership

• Strong communication skills & ability to work autonomously

Nice to have (not required):

• Docker / Kubernetes

• Experience with distributed or high-availability systems

• Experience with payments, ticketing, e-commerce or partner ecosystems