Backend Engineer, PHP

Lever, Inc.; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 55,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock options

Learning budget

Volunteer days

Flexible work location

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Backend Engineer (PHP) in Germany to design, build, and scale backend services within a large microservices architecture.

You will work across cross-functional teams, focusing on performance, reliability, and end-user impact in a high-scale gaming marketplace ecosystem. Expect ownership of architectural decisions, exposure to GraphQL, Golang, Temporal, and service design patterns, and collaboration with frontend, mobile, data, and platform teams to deliver high-quality

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in PHP and Symfony with modern versions.
• Solid understanding of microservices and distributed-system patterns (CQRS, circuit breaking, orchestration).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, scale, and maintain backend services using PHP/Symfony in a large microservices ecosystem.
• Develop features with emphasis on scalability, performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and select technical solutions for complex systems.
• Collaborate with frontend, mobile, design, data, and platform teams to deliver high-quality products.
• Improve engineering practices, observability, and system resilience across the tech stack.
• Take ownership of issues from investigation to implementation and continuous improvement.

Skills

PHP

Symfony

Distributed systems

Microservices

GraphQL

Kubernetes

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Team collaboration

Tools

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

Prometheus

InfluxDB

Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

Helm

AWS

Terraform

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Backend Engineer, PHP based in Germany.

Join a high-scale engineering environment where you’ll build and evolve backend systems powering a global digital gaming marketplace and a growing portfolio of new products. You’ll work within a cross‑functional team alongside backend, frontend, mobile, design, and data specialists. The role offers the opportunity to solve complex challenges across distributed systems, performance, reliability, trust, and safety. You’ll contribute to a modern microservices ecosystem spanning more than 100 services. Beyond delivering features, you’ll influence technical decisions, architectural direction, and engineering practices. With strong infrastructure and significant ownership, your work will have a direct impact on products used by millions of customers.

Accountabilities

• Design, build, scale, and maintain reliable backend services using PHP and Symfony within a large microservices architecture.
• Develop and deliver product features while considering scalability, performance, reliability, and the overall user experience.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and help shape technical solutions for complex distributed-system challenges.
• Work with technologies including GraphQL, Golang, Temporal, Saga orchestration, and established service design patterns.
• Collaborate closely with frontend, mobile, design, data, and platform engineering teams to deliver high-quality products.
• Help improve engineering practices, code quality, observability, and system resilience across the technology ecosystem.
• Take ownership of technical problems from investigation through implementation and continuously look for opportunities to improve how the team works.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional backend engineering experience, including hands-on work building and scaling distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in PHP and Symfony, with experience working with modern versions of the framework.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and common distributed-system patterns such as CQRS, circuit breaking, and service orchestration.
• Experience working with databases and data stores such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Prometheus, InfluxDB, or Elasticsearch.
• Familiarity with cloud and infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, and Terraform.
• Ability to contribute effectively to architectural discussions and make thoughtful technical decisions.
• Strong problem-solving skills, a high level of ownership, and a product-minded approach focused on end-user impact.
• Openness to feedback and a collaborative mindset, with genuine interest in learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving, cross-functional engineering environment.

Benefits

• €55,000–€72,000 annual compensation, plus bonus opportunities.
• Opportunity to participate in an employee stock options program.
• Performance-based, referral, additional paid-leave, and other bonus programs.
• Personal learning budget to support continued professional development.
• Paid volunteering opportunities.
• Flexible choice of work location, including remote work, office work, and the opportunity to work while traveling.
• Strong opportunities for personal and professional growth supported by structured feedback and promotion processes.
• Opportunity to contribute to scaling a distinctive technology product used by a large global gaming community.

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