Senior PHP Backend Engineer – AI-Driven Core Banking

Skaleet; Boulogne-Billancourt; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work up to 2 days remote per wk

25 days paid vacation + 12 RTT

Health insurance: Alan Blue

Swile meal card

Brand-new offices in Boulogne-Billanc‑

Job summary

Skaleet, based in Boulogne-Billancourt, is seeking a PHP Software Engineer to join a product squad building a modular core banking platform used by banks and fintechs. The role emphasizes performance, reliability, and maintainability in production environments.

You will split time with backend PHP (about 80%) and frontend work (about 20%), ensuring end-to-end understanding of product behavior and contributing to testing and deployment practices.

Qualifications

• Master's degree from a top-tier engineering school or equivalent.
• Minimum 3 years as a Software Engineer with significant PHP backend experience.
• Fluent with AI tools and able to leverage them to design and build faster.
• French language fluency (written and spoken) and professional English proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver critical features with high standards of quality, maintainability and performance.
• Backend development in PHP (≈80%), with frontend contributions (≈20%).
• Ensure code clarity, testability and long-term sustainability, manage technical debt.
• Participate in architectural and design improvements and agile team practices.

Skills

French

English

Team collaboration

AI tools fluency

Education

Master's degree in Engineering

Tools

PHP 8.2

MariaDB

Docker

Elastic Stack

RabbitMQ

OpenShift

Job description

Skaleet, based in Boulogne-Billancourt, is seeking a PHP Software Engineer to join a product squad building a modular core banking platform used by banks and fintechs. The role emphasizes performance, reliability, and maintainability in production environments.

You will split time with backend PHP (about 80%) and frontend work (about 20%), ensuring end-to-end understanding of product behavior and contributing to testing and deployment practices.