Senior PHP Developer

Bytro Labs GmbH; Hamburg; Vor Ort; EUR 50.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Join a forward-thinking company that is passionate about game development! As a Senior PHP Developer, you'll enhance backend systems and APIs, ensuring stability and performance. Collaborate with marketing and product teams to integrate new features and APIs while mentoring fellow developers. This role offers the opportunity to work on high-load applications in a dynamic environment, contributing to the future of multiplayer gaming. If you have a passion for clean code and a love for games, this is the perfect place for you to thrive and make an impact.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of PHP development experience with a focus on backend systems.
• Expertise in modern PHP frameworks and unit testing best practices.

Aufgaben

• Participate in architecture improvements and modernization of core PHP API.
• Implement security, testing, and development best practices.

Kenntnisse

PHP 8

Composer

Unit Testing

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Agile Methodologies

Clean Code Practices

Tools

Docker

MySQL

Redis

Jenkins

Grafana

Nginx

Github

Jobbeschreibung

Game development is our passion!

At Twin Harbour Interactive we strive to develop high-quality strategy games and make them accessiblefor all players around the world. In our eyes game development is a promise for fun and entertainment –that’s what we live and aim for!

As a Senior PHP Developer, you would extend our PHP backend systems and APIs, building,enhancing, and extending our backend API according to current stability, performance, scalability,security, and maintainability standards. You will directly work with marketing and other stakeholders tointegrate new partner APIs and tracking systems into our user backend. You can also contribute byimplementing new features to our Javascript/HTML tools and services.

YOUR MISSION

• Participate in architecture improvements and modernization of our core PHP API and backend systems powering our games
• Drive initiatives to enhance the stability, performance, and scalability of our PHP platform and live game systems
• Implement security, testing, and development best practices
• Contribute high-quality, maintainable PHP code using a wide range of technologies likeComposer, Sentry, Sonar, PHPUnit, Github, Docker, MySQL, Memcache, Redis, Jenkins, Grafana, Nexus, and Nginx
• Give input for the technical vision and roadmap for our PHP backend
• Partner with Marketing, Product, and Game Design to align technical work to business goals
• Implement the integration of new APIs, payment systems, and data tracking
• Mentor and guide developers on your team, instilling best practices

YOUR BACKSTORY

• 5+ years of professional experience in PHP development
• Expertise in PHP 8, unit testing, composer, PSRs, and modern PHP frameworks
• You have worked on multi-server, high-load PHP applications
• Experience with complex, high-traffic PHP applications and APIs
• Passion for writing clean, well-structured, maintainable code using design patterns appropriately
• Ability to implement and promote best practices for reliability, performance, scalability, security
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to influence and mentor teammates
• Ability to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements
• Fluent in technical and business English; German language skills are a plus
• You have experience with agile methodologies like Kanban, Scrum
• You are enthusiastic about games and enjoy working in an interdisciplinary team
• You are interested in learning outside of the box and also taking over full-stack developmenttasks

Join Twin Harbour Interactive

Where Strategy Meets Vision.

Twin Harbour Interactive is a global strategy game powerhouse, shaping the future of long-term multiplayer gaming. With offices in Hamburg and Malta, we design strategy games that bring people together—across borders and generations.

Whether you’re an expert tactician or an imaginative world-builder, there’s a place here for you to grow, thrive, and leave your mark.