Senior PHP Software Engineer

AmRest Holdings SE; Województwo pomorskie; On-site; PLN 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lux Med medical care

Health and Life Insurance

Multisport card

Study Tour

Training & webinars

Employee product discounts

Office/Remote flexibility

Casual dress code

Job summary

Wakacje.pl S.A. is seeking a Senior PHP Software Engineer to design and evolve backend services powering our e‑commerce and travel platform. You will work with the Team Lead and area Architect to shape technical direction, ensure scalability, and maintain code quality.

The role requires strong PHP experience (Symfony/Laravel/Slim), REST API design, PHPUnit testing, and English proficiency. Opportunities include flexible locations, a benefit‑rich package, and remote options across Poland.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with PHP 7.x/8.x.
• Proficiency in a major PHP framework — Symfony, Laravel, Slim; 3–4 years in production with at least one.
• Hands-on experience with REST API design and development.
• Experience writing automated tests with PHPUnit (unit and integration).
• Familiarity with the Linux command line (basic level).
• Strong understanding of PostgreSQL and SQL; relational databases.
• NoSQL / caching technologies (Redis, Elasticsearch) — working level.
• Git / GitHub (pull requests, code review), Docker.
• English proficiency at a B2+ level (communicative).

Responsibilities

• Support the Team Lead in designing the architecture of services and planning roadmaps.
• Consult with the area Architect to ensure alignment with system architecture and standards.
• Lead mentoring sessions with developers to improve code quality and growth.
• Evaluate architectural options to fit business and technical needs while avoiding over‑engineering.
• Design and maintain REST APIs and event-driven/queue-based integrations across services.
• Ensure code quality and reliability through PHPUnit tests and active code reviews.

Skills

PHP

PHP Frameworks

REST API

PHPUnit

Linux CLI

PostgreSQL

NoSQL/Cache

Git/GitHub

Docker

English (B2+)

Tools

Docker

GitHub

PostgreSQL

Redis

Elasticsearch

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Job description

About us:

We areane-commerce platform and a network of travel agencies offering a wide range of travel products.Since 2015, we have been partofWirtualnaPolska Holding – Poland’s largest group of media and e-commerce companies. Together with Travelplanet.pl and theInviabrands across CEE, we are building a unified travel group driven by a shared #TravelMindset. In our daily work, we #Explore better ways to grow, #Engage through real ownership and teamwork, and #Enjoy building experiences that people genuinely look forward to.

Team/Project/Product

This role sits within a team responsible for designing and evolving the architecture of core backend services that power the product's e-commerce and platform capabilities. The team owns the technical direction of key service areas, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with the broader system architecture. Working closely with the Team Lead and area Architect, this position contributes directly to shaping how services are built and integrated, ensuring technical decisions support both immediate feature delivery and the long-term health of the platform. The role plays a key part in bridging hands‑on development with architectural planning, helping the team avoid both technical debt and unnecessary complexity.

Senior PHP Software Engineer

Region: pomorskie

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Team Lead in designing the architecture of services and broader technical solutions, collaborating closely on planning and roadmap decisions
• Consult with the area Architect to ensure proposed solutions align with overall system architecture and standards
• Lead regular mentoring sessions with developers, supporting their technical growth and code quality
• Evaluate architectural options critically, selecting solutions that fit actual business and technical needs while avoiding over‑engineering
• Design and maintain REST APIs and event‑driven/queue‑based integrations across services
• Ensure code quality and reliability through unit and integration testing (PHPUnit) and active participation in code reviews

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience with PHP 7.x/8.x
• Proficiency in a major PHP framework — multi‑framework environment (Symfony, Laravel, Slim); minimum 3–4 years of production experience with at least one, with working knowledge of the others and the ability to move between frameworks comfortably
• Hands‑on experience with REST API design and development
• Experience writing automated tests with PHPUnit (unit and integration testing)
• Familiarity with the Linux command line (basic level required)
• Strong understanding of relational databases and SQL (PostgreSQL) — schema design, query optimization, indexing, transactions
• NoSQL / caching technologies (Redis, Elasticsearch) — working level
• Git / GitHub (pull requests, code review), Docker
• Sound architectural judgment — ability to select solutions appropriate to actual needs and avoid over‑engineering (key aspect of this role)
• English proficiency at a B2+ level (communicative)

Soft Skills (Required)

• Strong communication — able to clearly explain and justify technical decisions to the Team Lead and the wider team
• Analytical thinking, problem‑solving, and the ability to weigh trade‑offs
• Collaboration and mentoring — planning with the Team Lead and leading regular development sessions

Nice to Have / Willingness to Learn

• Hands‑on experience with Docker and Elasticsearch
• Experience with message brokers like RabbitMQ
• Knowledge of visualization tools like Kibana or Grafana
• Contributing to CI/CD pipelines
• An additional programming language (Go, Python, JS/TS)

What do we offer:

Workplace safety and comfort:

• Employment based on an employment contract or B2B,
• Full support during the onboarding period under the supervision of an engaging leader/buddy.

Business agency and agility:

• Real influence on business decisions, the ability to take initiatives and implement your ideas.

Development within the organization:

• Individual Development Plan,
• Participation in training courses and conferences to enhance professional competencies.

All-inclusive for Employees:

• A benefits package that you can use according to your preferences – Lux Med medical care, Health and Life Insurance (PZU and Warta), Multisport card, shopping and lunch vouchers, and many other cafeteria offers available on the Worksmile platform,
• Study Tour – trips abroad to explore our product offerings (destination tours and hotel audits),
• A training and webinar package supporting professional and personal development,
• Discounts on our products for employees and their families,
• Possible to work from one of our office inGdańsk (Alchemia office complex), Wrocław (Legnicka Business Garden), Warsaw (Włochy Business Garden) or remote.
• Casual dress code.

1. Personal Data Controller
The controller of your personal data will be Wakacje.pl S.A. with its registered office in Gdańsk (hereinafter: we).
You can contact us at: Wakacje.pl S.A., al. Grunwaldzka 413, 80-309 Gdańsk

2. Data Protection Officer
We have appointed a Data Protection Officer. This is the person you can contact in all matters related to the
processing of personal data and the exercise of rights related to data processing. You can contact the inspector in
the following ways:
- by letter to the following address: Wakacje.pl S.A. / IODO / al. Grunwaldzka 413, 80-309 Gdańsk
- by e-mail to the following e-mail address: [e-mail]

3. Purposes and bases for processing
We will process your personal data for the following purposes:
1) Conduct the recruitment process for the position you are applying for. The basis for processing is:

• implementation of labour law provisions (Article 22 (1) § 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure) and
  preparation for concluding a contract (Article 6 (1) (b) of the GDPR) in the scope of the following data:
  name(s) and surname; Date of birth; Contact; education; professional qualifications, the course of
  previous employment;
• Your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR to the additional data that you choose to provide to us
  voluntarily in your CV, cover letter or during a job interview. Providing additional data, to the extent
  not specified by labour law or not required by us, will be treated as consent to the processing of
  such personal data. Giving consent in this case is voluntary, and consent given in this way may be
  revoked at any time;
• our legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR) in the data collected by us during the interview. We
  have a legitimate interest in vetting your skills and abilities – we need this to assess whether you are
  the right person for the position we are recruiting for;
• our legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR) consisting in the possibility of conducting
  recruitment by electronic means, efficient communication and ensuring the correct identification
  and, if necessary, confirmation of the candidate's identity in the system used to manage the
  recruitment process (the email address is the candidate's identifier in the eRecruiter system);

2) assessment of your qualifications, abilities and skills during future recruitment – the basis for the
processing is your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR);
3) archival and evidentiary data - the basis for processing is our legitimate interest related to the pursuit or
defence of possible claims (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR).

4. Data retention period
We will retain your personal data for a period of one year after you submit your application for the position.

5. Data recipients
We will transfer your personal data to service providers supporting us in conducting recruitment processes, e.g. IT
service providers and a service provider providing the eRecruiter recruitment process management system, i.e.
eRecruitment Solutions sp. z o.o Such entities process data on the basis of a contract with us and in accordance
with our instructions.

Other companies from the Wirtualna Polska Holding S.A. capital group for administrative purposes,
including personnel management throughout the capital group for the purpose of exchanging data within
the capital group, in particular in connection with human resources management and organizational
structure, administrative, HR, payroll and IT services, planning and reporting at the group level.
In addition, if you consent to the processing of your personal data for the purposes of future recruitment,
we will be able to transfer your personal data to companies from the Wirtualna Polska capital group, which
includes Wirtualna Polska Holding S.A. with its registered office in Warsaw and subsidiaries
(https://holding.wp.pl/investor/struktura-grupy-kapitalowej)

6. Rights related to the processing of your personal data
You have the right to:
1) access to your personal data,
2) request rectification of your personal data,
3) request the deletion of your personal data,
4) request restriction of processing of your personal data,
5) object to the processing of your data – in cases where we process your data on the basis of our
legitimate interest,
6) transfer of your personal data, i.e. the right to receive your personal data from us, in a structured,
commonly used and machine‑readable IT format. You can send this data to another data controller or
request that we transmit your data to another controller, but we will only do so if such transfer is
technically possible. You have this right to portability only in respect of the data that we process on the
basis of a contract with you or on the basis of your consent,
7) to the extent that your data is processed on the basis of consent - withdraw consent to the processing
of your personal data at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of
processing carried out on the basis of consent before its withdrawal.

To exercise the above rights, please contact us or our Data Protection Officer (contact details in points 1 and 2
above).

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection. This
right applies only to the lawfulness of the processing of personal data, and does not apply to the course of the
recruitment process