Senior Software Engineer (PHP)

Kuchup; Berlin; On-site; EUR 48,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible working hours

Language courses

Team events

Job summary

HomeToGo is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (PHP) to join the team delivering the revenue platform. You will own features end-to-end, work with Symfony on modern PHP, and integrate with Salesforce, SAP, and partner systems.

The role focuses on reliability, observability, and scalable architecture while collaborating with business stakeholders across Europe. You will contribute to APIs, event-based integrations, and automation via LLM tooling, while ensuring data quality for Finance and BI.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of backend development in PHP/Symfony or equivalent OO language.
• Solid knowledge of relational databases and query planning.
• Experience with LLM-based tooling and agent frameworks is a plus.
• Tendency to write tests and perform static analysis and code reviews.
• Ability to work with business stakeholders and understand processes.
• Strong communication skills to explain technical decisions to non-engineers.
• Commitment to continuous learning and cross-border collaboration.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Implement and evolve revenue-generation rules based on business requirements.
• Build and maintain API and event integrations with Salesforce, SAP, and partners.
• Extend platform with LLM tooling and agent workflows for automation.
• Deliver reliable data to Finance and BI via exports and quality checks.
• Automate manual financial workflows in collaboration with teams.
• Keep platform reliable and observable using Grafana/Prometheus/Kibana.
• Work on PHP 8+ apps with Symfony, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes on AWS.
• Participate in platform evolution, framework upgrades, and retirement of legacy components.
• Own features end-to-end from refinement to production; participate in code reviews and planning.

Skills

PHP

Symfony

Relational DB

LLM tooling

Testing

Code reviews

English fluency

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Grafana

Prometheus

Kibana

Job description

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Senior Software Engineer (PHP)

Vilnius

Full-time

Permanent employee

Explore a new world of possibilities

At HomeToGo, we’re on a mission to make incredible accommodation easily accessible for everyone. Our team is united by a passion for travel, driven by innovation and impact, and guided by open-minded leaders at every level. Our commitment to recognizing and empowering exceptional talent is the foundation of our growth. We are actively hiring candidates from all around the world, including sponsoring visas for Germany. An amazing journey of opportunity with an international team lies ahead - join us!

Your future contribution

As a Software Engineer (PHP), you will join the team behind HomeToGo's revenue platform, which sits at the centre of the company's financial operations, from the revenue earned across its brands to the money exchanged with its partners. The platform is deeply integrated with Salesforce, SAP and partner systems. Teams throughout the company depend on its output, which makes understanding the business processes a part of your job. You will work with rich domain logic, enterprise integrations and the engineering discipline that keeps a critical platform reliable, observable and easy to evolve. You will take ownership of features and see them through to production, in direct collaboration with business and technical stakeholders across the company. The team is experienced and values solid engineering, effective feedback and honest conversations about trade-offs.

How you’ll add value

• Implement and evolve the rules that determine what the company earns and what it owes its partners, based on requirements from business stakeholders
• Build and maintain the API- and event-based integrations that keep the platform consistent with Salesforce, SAP, payment systems and booking providers, in close collaboration with engineering teams across HomeToGo
• Extend the platform with LLM-based tooling, from MCP servers that expose its data safely to business teams and AI agents, to agent workflows that automate operational work.
• Deliver trustworthy data to Finance and Business Intelligence, from the exports that feed the data warehouse to the alerting and quality checks around them
• Replace manual financial workflows with automated, tested processes, in collaboration with the teams who run them today
• Keep the platform reliable and observable, using Grafana, Prometheus and Kibana to monitor it in production, respond to incidents, find root causes and turn recurring problems into lasting fixes
• Work across a set of applications written in modern PHP on Symfony 7 and 8, backed by MySQL, Redis and RabbitMQ, deployed on Kubernetes alongside AWS managed services
• Take part in the platform's technical evolution, including completing its move to Kubernetes, regular framework and dependency upgrades as well as the retirement of legacy components
• Take ownership of your features from refinement to production, and take an active part in code review, planning and retrospectives

You’ll be successful in this role if you

• Have 2+ years of professional backend development, in PHP and Symfony or in another object-oriented language with the willingness to make PHP your main one.
• Have solid knowledge of relational databases: schema design, transactions, indexes and the ability to reason about a query plan.
• Have practical experience with LLM-based tools, both as a user in your daily engineering work and as a builder: MCP servers, agent frameworks such as Google ADK, or comparable projects of your own.
• Write tests as part of your normal workflow, and a serious attitude to static analysis and code review.
• Are willing to work directly with business stakeholders and to invest time in understanding their processes as thoroughly as the code that supports them.
• Are able to explain technical decisions to people outside engineering, and to ask precise questions when a requirement is unclear.
• Feel interested in continuous learning as a habit, whether that means a new tool, a new part of the business or a better way of working the team has agreed on.
• Are fluent in English, spoken and written. The team works daily with colleagues across Europe and beyond.

Nice To Have

• Experience building and consuming APIs, and some exposure to asynchronous or message-based processing with RabbitMQ, Kinesis, SQS or similar.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and AWS managed services.
• Familiarity with Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana or a comparable monitoring stack.

What we offer

• Career of growth opportunities and promotions, 360 feedback, performance evaluation system, and mentoring from an international and distinguished team
• Culture of empowerment, trust, recognition, autonomy and quarterly transparency about company goals. A focus on work-life balance, combined with consistent collaboration and support from a team of 30+ nationalities
• Compensation of attractive salary, health insurance, additional holidays, flexible working hours, language courses, employee-led workshops, office perks, frequent team building and company events, business trips to Berlin

About Us

HomeToGo is the SaaS-enabled marketplace with the world's largest selection of vacation rentals, listing millions of offers from thousands of trusted partners, including Booking.com, Vrbo and TripAdvisor. From vacation homes, cabins, beach houses, apartments, condos, house boats, castles, farm stays and everything in between, HomeToGo combines price, destination, dates and amenities to find the perfect accommodation for any trip worldwide.

Founded in 2014, HomeToGo operates localized apps & websites in more than 30 countries across Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Asia-Pacific. HomeToGo also operates brands such as Agriturismo.it, AMIVAC, atraveo, Casamundo, CaseVacanza.it, e-domizil, EscapadaRural, Kurzurlaub, Kurz Mal Weg, Tripping.com and Wimdu.

HomeToGo is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring and nurturing exceptional talent, representing various backgrounds, perspectives and skills. We are authentically candid and open-minded, fostering a safe environment for diverse opinions. Our hiring decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business needs. We do not discriminate against race, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion, political, ideological or religious views, disability or age.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a workforce of equality and diversity at HomeToGo and to provide opportunities to everyone. We therefore welcome your application even if you aren't completely confident that your experiences fit the job description criteria. We would really love to get to know you!