🎯 Role Overview:
We’re looking for a Senior PHP Backend Developer to strengthen the engineering team of a high-load iGaming platform, built on PHP (Laravel and Symfony). You’ll work on backend services, APIs, and event-driven integrations using Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis, ensuring reliable asynchronous processing across a distributed system. The role involves designing scalable solutions, improving existing architecture, refactoring legacy code, and maintaining system performance and stability. We’re looking for an engineer who can take end-to-end ownership of features, make independent technical decisions, and contribute to code quality, architectural improvements, and team knowledge sharing.
⚙️ Your Tasks:
Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs of varying complexity using PHP (Laravel and Symfony).
Develop and support event-driven integrations based on Kafka and RabbitMQ (producers/consumers, queues, message processing).
Understand how asynchronous processing works: message flow, delivery guarantees, idempotency, retries, ordering, backpressure, and failure handling.
Design and optimize data handling: relational databases and caching/storage with Redis.
Apply design patterns and solid architectural principles (SOLID, DDD elements, layered and event-driven architecture) when building and reviewing code.
Refactor existing code: improve structure and readability, reduce coupling, and pay down technical debt without breaking behavior.
Analyze requirements and proactively highlight technical risks and constraints to the team before development starts.
Make architectural decisions with scalability, reliability, and performance of a distributed system in mind.
Perform code reviews and maintain code quality standards and best practices within the team.
Investigate and resolve defects and incidents using logs, databases, metrics, and monitoring.
Build and maintain technical documentation and improve development processes within the team.
Mentor colleagues and share expertise within the engineering community.
Jump into tasks of adjacent teams when needed.
👤 Our criteria:
Successfully onboard into the team’s development processes, PHP codebase (Laravel and Symfony), and infrastructure (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis).
Demonstrate ownership of assigned features from requirements analysis through production release and support.
Confidently develop and maintain asynchronous integrations via Kafka/RabbitMQ with minimal supervision, with a clear understanding of how async processing behaves under load and failures.
Apply suitable design patterns and architectural approaches, and keep code clean through regular refactoring.
Deliver consistent, high-quality development and delivery.
Effectively collaborate with other developers, QA, product managers, and other stakeholders.
Contribute to improvements in architecture, development processes, or team knowledge sharing.
Show the ability to independently break down tasks, make sound technical decisions, and see them through to completion.
💼 Our offer:
Flexible work setup — work remotely or from the office, we focus on results, not location;
Support for a comfortable work environment — we compensate coworking expenses and EcoFlow power stationsto help our team stay productive during power outages in Ukraine;
Unlimited vacation and sick leave, because we trust our people to manage their time responsibly;
Relocation support for team members who want to move;
Regular performance-based bonuses that reward individual and team impact;
Learning support — we cover 50% of professional courses and development programs;
Language & wellbeing support — we cover 50% of English classes and psychological consultations;
Career growth opportunities — we prioritize internal promotions and development;
Team culture that actually feels like one — regular gifts, company merch, and team events throughout the year;
Real impact — we are small enough for every voice to be heard
