Senior Backend Engineer (PHP)

Mad Collective; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 40.000 - 80.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

An innovative digital entertainment company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to enhance their popular dating products. In this role, you'll leverage modern technologies like PHP, Docker, and AWS to maintain and improve systems that serve over 100K users daily. The company promotes a collaborative and flexible work environment, allowing for hybrid-remote arrangements. You'll be part of a diverse team that values continuous learning and innovation, ensuring your contributions have a significant impact on the user experience. If you're passionate about backend development and eager to tackle exciting challenges, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Servicios

Private Health and Dental Insurance

Subsidized gym memberships

Monthly internet allowance

Working from home setup allowance

Sponsored training and development

Top-notch Apple equipment

Flexible Bank Holidays

Day off for your birthday

Formación

• Strong knowledge of PHP and experience with modern frameworks.
• Familiarity with Docker, AWS, and high traffic environments.

Responsabilidades

• Maintain and modernize dating products, adding new features.
• Diagnose and solve high traffic production problems.

Conocimientos

PHP

OOP patterns

SOLID principles

Domain Driven Design (DDD)

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Golang programming

Herramientas

Docker

AWS

Kubernetes

HELM

MySQL

CI/CD

DataDog

Jira

Descripción del empleo

Mad Collective is a digital entertainment company founded in Rochester (NY) in the early 2000s, with offices in Barcelona since 2007.

We're a dynamic and diverse team, driven by innovation and new opportunities. Our team includes technologists, marketers, business operators, video producers, and VR experts, with members representing a wide range of nationalities and backgrounds.

We are looking for a talented and passionate Senior Backend Engineer to join our Dating Engineering team!

What will you do?

Our main goal is to maintain and improve our dating sites, with more than 100K new users per day, mainly from the US. We are also exploring and testing new dating products. We do this by using the most modern technologies including:

• AWS
• Docker
• Terraform
• Cypress
• Domain Events
• Symfony
• PHP 7+
• Vue.js

We follow good practices and Domain Driven Design (DDD), using agile methodologies such as Kanban with Jira. Continuous improvement, learning, and practicing new things are always welcomed.

Just as important, we like to work in a nice and safe environment, where everyone is accountable, friendly, and always willing to help. We work as a team and encourage opinions.

We operate as a hybrid-remote company, giving everyone the flexibility to work from home two days per week. This balance supports both collaboration and individual productivity.

Main responsibilities

• Maintain, modernize, and add new features to our dating products and their components.
• Triage, diagnose, and solve high traffic production problems.
• Share knowledge with your colleagues about best practices and new technologies.
• Advise on issues relating to improving performance and scalability.
• Develop unit, functional, integration, and E2E tests.
• Be involved throughout the full lifecycle development process. Document existing and new systems and components.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge and practice of PHP, OOP patterns, and SOLID principles.
• Good knowledge of Domain Driven Design (DDD).
• Experience with PHP 7 and at least one modern framework.
• Experience with Docker containers.
• Experience with AWS services.
• Experience with Kubernetes and HELM.
• Experience writing SQL (MySQL).
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Business level English (spoken and written).
• A great teammate with excellent communication skills.
• Experience working in high traffic environments.
• Experience with queue systems.
• Experience in Golang programming.
• Experience with non-relational databases.
• Experience with CI and CD.
• Experience with observability services like DataDog.

Hiring process

• First interview with our Talent Acquisition Specialist — to get to know your profile and explain the company and the role.
• Second interview with the Hiring Manager and the Tech Lead — to review your technical skills and provide more information about the team and position.
• Technical test — do it when you can; no time constraints.
• Third interview with the Tech Lead and a Developer from the team — to review the technical test and ask follow-up questions.

Benefits

• Private Health and Dental Insurance plan.
• Subsidized gym memberships and fitness classes.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Working from home setup allowance.
• Sponsored training and development.
• Top-notch Apple equipment.
• Hybrid policy and flexible working hours.
• Flexible Bank Holidays — design your own working calendar with a lengthy consecutive vacation policy.
• Day off for your birthday.

Sounds good? Apply now for this position! Please note: All applications must be submitted in English.