Backend Engineer, PHP

Eneba; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Options

Performance-based bonus

Referral bonus

Additional paid leave

Personal learning budget

Paid volunteering opportunities

Office/Remote work options

Job summary

Eneba is seeking a senior backend engineer to scale distributed services powering a global gaming marketplace. You’ll own core systems built with PHP/Symfony, Golang services, and GraphQL, tackling performance, reliability, and security at scale.

You’ll work in a cross-functional team, influence architecture, and shape the future of our platform while collaborating with design, backend, frontend, and data teams. Remote-friendly, with travel opportunities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience with hands-on expertise in PHP and Symfony.
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems and contributing to architecture.
• Strong problem-solving, ownership, and openness to feedback.

Responsibilities

• Scale and maintain distributed backend services handling high traffic.
• Shape architectural decisions and collaborate across teams.
• Deliver reliable, performant systems with a product-minded approach.

Skills

Backend engineering

PHP

Symfony

Distributed systems

Architecture discussions

Product-minded

Problem solving

Feedback-oriented

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

PHPStan

Job description

About Eneba

At Eneba, we’re building the technology and products shaping the future of gaming.

Our core is a global digital gaming marketplace used by 20M+ customers, with 100,000+ digital items and a platform built to operate at massive scale. Behind it is a complex technology ecosystem spanning 100+ microservices, distributed systems, internal platforms, and tooling that helps our teams build and ship faster.

And we’re not stopping at the marketplace. We’re building new products like Snakzy, AI game coaches, and more, exploring new ways for players to discover, buy, and experience games.

We’re proud of how far we’ve come in such a short time - and there’s a lot more to build. Join us as we scale and build the next generation of products for the gaming community.

About your team

You’ll join a cross‑functional team of 5–10 people spanning design, backend, frontend, mobile, and data, supported by a dedicated platform engineering team. We move fast, experiment often, and build for a growing community of active users.

As an engineer, you’ll do more than ship features - you’ll help shape how the team works and the technology we build. With strong infrastructure, a modern codebase, and hundreds of microservices, you’ll tackle real challenges in scale, performance, reliability, trust, and safety while having the ownership to make a real technical impact.

About the tech

Code

• PHP 8.5+

• Symfony 6, 7 and 8

• Golang

• GraphQL

• Temporal

• Saga orchestration

• Microservices architecture - 100+ services

• Custom PHPStan rules

Databases & metrics stores

• MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Prometheus, InfluxDB, ElasticSearch

Infrastructure

• Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, Terraform with custom-made abstractions

About you

• You have 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with hands‑on experience building and scaling distributed systems and strong expertise in PHP and Symfony.

• You are a quick problem solver who takes ownership

• You are genuinely open to feedback

• You are familiar with common patterns like CQRS, circuit breaking, and service orchestration

• You can effectively contribute to architectural discussions.

• You are product-minded and always thinking about the end‑user impact

• You are genuinely excited to work in a supportive, collaborative environment where we learn, experiment, and continuously improve.

What it’s like to work at Eneba

*Opportunity to join our Employee Stock Options program.

*Opportunity to help scale a unique product.

*Various bonus systems: performance-based, referral, additional paid leave, personal learning budget.

*Paid volunteering opportunities.

*Work location of your choice: office, remote, opportunity to work and travel.

*Personal and professional growth at an exponential rate supported by well‑defined feedback and promotion processes.

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