Senior PHP Developer (Ironwall)

Surfshark; Województwo mazowieckie; Hybride; PLN 266 000 - 373 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Learning opportunities

Health & wellness

Equipment package

Team events & celebrations

Commute support

Work-life balance

Surfshark premium accounts

Résumé du poste

Surfshark is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to scale Ironwall, focusing on distributed systems, resilience, and ownership of high-impact initiatives. You will design core services, improve performance, and help evolve the backend stack across ecosystems.

You will work with PHP 8.x, Go or Node.js/TypeScript, and relational databases, driving secure, scalable solutions with strong testing and deployment practices.

Qualifications

• Strong backend experience with scalable production applications.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and service-oriented architectures.
• Proficient in relational DBs (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and caching strategies (Redis).
• Ability to drive projects from concept to deployment and mentor others.

Responsabilités

• Partner with product managers to translate requirements into scalable technical designs.
• Architect and maintain high-traffic backend services with focus on reliability and security.
• Lead technical decision-making across services, domains, and pipelines.
• Identify bottlenecks, optimize queries, and design robust distributed workflows.
• Enforce quality through automated tests, CI/CD, and reviews.
• Own end-to-end initiatives from RFCs to observability and post-launch stability.

Connaissances

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

Code reviews

Data management

Outils

Go

Node.js/TypeScript

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

Description du poste

Join the Incogni engineering team to help us scale Ironwall, our specialized protection service safeguarding the online privacy and personal data of vulnerable individuals and public servants. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who thinks in distributed systems, designs for resilience, and takes complete ownership of high-impact technical initiatives.

Our mission is to build a scalable, secure, and resilient platform that supports rapid product growth. You will design core application services, eliminate architectural bottlenecks, and help evolve our tech stack across backend ecosystems.

If you want to:

• Partner closely with product managers and stakeholders to analyze business requirements and translate them into clear, scalable technical solution proposals.

• Architect, build, and maintain high-traffic, business-critical backend services with a strong focus on reliability, low latency, and data security.

• Leverage modern AI developer tooling (e.g., coding assistants, LLM-driven refactoring, automated testing agents) to maximize delivery velocity and streamline technical workflows.

• Lead technical decision-making across service boundaries, domain modeling, data persistence, and deployment pipelines.

• Identify performance bottlenecks, optimize database queries, and design robust distributed workflows.

• Drive engineering excellence by conducting high-standard code reviews, establishing testing practices, and mentoring other engineers.

• Own initiatives end-to-end: from initial technical RFCs and system design to deployment, observability, and post-launch stability.

And you can check off:

• Senior-level backend expertise: Extensive experience building, scaling, and maintaining production applications using PHP (modern 8.x) and familiarity or willingness to work with languages like Go or Node.js/TypeScript.

• System & API Design: Proven track record designing scalable RESTful APIs, clean domain models, and microservice/modular architectures.

• Data Management: Strong hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) including indexing, schema optimization, and caching strategies (e.g., Redis).

• Engineering Ownership: Demonstrated ability to drive projects from concept to deployment, making sound trade-offs between speed, scalability, and technical debt.

• Culture of Quality: Mastery of automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end), CI/CD pipelines, and writing maintainable, well-documented code.

Bonus points if you:

• Experience scaling platforms handling millions of high-concurrency requests or large-scale automated data removal pipelines.

• Deep understanding of observability practices (distributed tracing, structured logging, Prometheus/Grafana).

• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes).

Here’s the deal:

• Growth and learning opportunities: time dedicated to learning, conferences, online learning platforms, and books for your professional development;

• Health and wellness: we want you to feel and be your best. That's why we offer various benefits, from online workouts, a physical coach and a gym to regular mental health checks;

• Tools of your choice: choose technical equipment and the tools you need to do your best;

• Community and celebrations: get ready for long-lasting traditions such as yearly workation, Friday get-togethers, various team buildings and company celebrations;

• Convenient commuting: traveling from point A to point B can be a pain. That’s why, depending on your unique circumstances, we compensate part of your public transport costs;

• Work-life balance: We encourage working in the office, with the possibility of up to two remote days per week. Plus, with our WFA policy, you can work from almost anywhere in the world;

• Premium Surfshark accounts: for you, your family, and friends;

• Gross salary: 5,600- 7,200 Eur/month for the Lithuanian market, 23,800-33,400 PLN/month for the Polish market. It may vary depending on your skills and experience.