Backend Engineer, PHP

Jobgether SRL; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Bonus program

Learning budget

Volunteer opportunities

Flexible location

Promotion opportunities

Job summary

Jobgether SRL is seeking an senior backend engineer to design, build, and scale reliable PHP/Symfony services within a large microservices ecosystem. You will work across distributed systems, focusing on performance, reliability, and end-user impact, while collaborating with frontend, mobile, data, and platform teams.

The role emphasizes ownership, architectural input, and continuous improvement, with a flexible work-location policy including remote options and travel opportunities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Strong PHP and Symfony expertise.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Familiar with databases like MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch.
• Cloud and infra technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, Terraform.
• Ability to contribute to architectural discussions and make thoughtful technical decisions.
• Strong problem-solving, ownership, and product-minded approach.
• Collaborative mindset with openness to feedback.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, scale, and maintain backend services in a large microservices architecture.
• Develop features with focus on scalability, performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and craft solutions for distributed-system challenges.
• Work with GraphQL, Golang, Temporal, Saga orchestration and established service design patterns.
• Collaborate with frontend, mobile, data, and platform teams to deliver quality products.
• Improve engineering practices, observability, and system resilience across the tech stack.
• Own technical problems from investigation through implementation and continuous improvement.

Skills

PHP

Symfony

Distributed systems

Microservices

CQRS

Circuit breaking

Service orchestration

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

Prometheus

InfluxDB

Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Ownership

Product-minded

Team collaboration

Tools

GraphQL

Golang

Temporal

Saga orchestration

Job description

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.