appflame — a Ukrainian IT company building world-class products: Hily, Taimi, AdConnect, Mailkeeper, and more.
Who we are today:
• 7 years on the market, 500+ employees, offices in Kyiv, London, and Limassol, plus a coworking space in Warsaw. • In 2025, appflame ranked 5th among Ukraine’s 50 best employers according to Forbes and won in the “Place for Growth” category. • Our apps Hily and Taimi are among the Top 5 dating apps in the U.S., with over 70 million users. AdConnect and Mailkeeper build and scale our own B2B and B2C solutions.
Our mission: Flame up the world with Ukrainian products.
Our goals:
• Reach the top 5 product companies in the world. • Become a unicorn — and turn Ukraine into a country where unicorns are born and thrive.
We’re looking for daring, ambitious, and “a little crazy” people — those who love building real products and dream of launching cool startups. You have the ambition; we have the conditions to make it happen.
Your project:
Hily. It is a dating app that allows users to be truly themselves and enjoy dating as they are. On Hily, users become part of a community where people find genuine connections and meaningful relationships.
The app ranks among the Top 5 dating apps in the U.S. by downloads, competing with market leaders such as Tinder and Bumble.
Hily today: 40M users, 1.5B likes sent, 50M+ matches annually.
You will:
• Work on tasks that you can see directly in the application and even use the features you build. • Be part of the platform team, where your work as a backend engineer multiplies the speed and quality of every product team in the company. • Work with OKRs, focusing only on high-impact work rather than busywork. • Deal with high-load systems, plan releases, and in some cases roll out features gradually. • Face real technical challenges every day. • Work with AI assistants that are already part of the environment and can be leveraged in your workflow.
We’ll have a match if you:
• Have 5+ years of software engineering experience. • Have English at a B2 level or higher. • Possess a deep understanding of SOLID principles, OOP, and design patterns. • Work with PHP 8.4+ and Laravel. • Have experience with MySQL, Redis, and Memcached. • Think ahead: plan changes, deployments, and feature rollouts with impact and compatibility in mind. • Demonstrate AI fluency: experience leveraging AI to optimize engineering workflows. • Love seeing the results of your work in practice and do everything you can to make that happen. • Maintain a truly positive mindset, seeing opportunities rather than walls.
Will be an advantage:
• Experience with DDD methodology. • Hands-on experience building and supporting agentic workflows; familiarity with SDD, and context engineering.
What we offer:
• Work: Remote-first setup, modern offices with activities, and all the equipment you need, plus compensation to set up your remote workplace. • Growth: Fair pay with regular reviews; after probation, compensation for education and English courses, Online Speaking Club, online library, and course access. • Health & time off: Medical insurance coverage, psychologist consultations, unlimited paid sick days, and 31 paid vacation days/year (incl. public holidays). • Team: Corporate events, team-building activities, and paid participation in sports competitions.
Why appflame?
• Build Ukrainian products that compete with the best players on the global market. • Bring your own ideas to life instead of being a cog in the system. • Direct contact with Snapchat, Facebook, Google, and Apple, and access to their best practices. • Work with a global market and a massive audience. • A team of like-minded people focused on results. • Well-established processes and real opportunities to grow within the company. • Transparent evaluation based on personal performance indicators.
Join our team — it’s going to be hotter than you can imagine.
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