Remote Senior PHP Backend Engineer — Scale Microservices

Lever, Inc.; Schweiz; Hybrid; CHF 51.000 - 67.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Stock options

Bonus opportunities

Learning budget

Volunteer opportunities

Flexible work location

Zusammenfassung

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Backend Engineer (PHP) in Switzerland to design and scale backend services within a large microservices ecosystem. You will work across cross-functional teams to deliver features with performance, reliability, and strong user impact.

Responsibilities include architectural input, owning complex distributed-system challenges, and collaborating with frontend, data, and platform engineers. The role offers remote-friendly options and a growth-focused environment.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in PHP and Symfony.
• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed-system patterns.
• Experience with databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, and Terraform.
• Ability to contribute to architectural discussions and make thoughtful technical decisions.
• High ownership, problem-solving, and product-minded approach.

Aufgaben

• Design, build, scale, and maintain backend services using PHP and Symfony within a large microservices architecture.
• Develop features with attention to scalability, performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and shape technical solutions for distributed systems.
• Collaborate with frontend, mobile, design, data, and platform teams to deliver high-quality products.
• Improve engineering practices, code quality, observability, and system resilience.
• Take ownership of problems from investigation to implementation.

Kenntnisse

PHP

Symfony

Microservices

Distributed systems

CQRS

GraphQL

Golang

Service orchestration

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

AWS

Terraform

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

Elasticsearch

Prometheus

Jobbeschreibung

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Backend Engineer (PHP) in Switzerland to design and scale backend services within a large microservices ecosystem. You will work across cross-functional teams to deliver features with performance, reliability, and strong user impact.

Responsibilities include architectural input, owning complex distributed-system challenges, and collaborating with frontend, data, and platform engineers. The role offers remote-friendly options and a growth-focused environment.