PHP Developer
We're looking for a PHP Backend Engineer (m/f/d) to join a fast-growing digital bank. The bank is building a mobile-first platform that handles high transaction volumes, and the role suits someone who wants real ownership of a modern payments stack.
Your tasks
- Design, build and run payment services, from concept and API design through to production
- Develop new services in the latest Symfony release (Doctrine, Messenger) and modernise existing PHP 8.3+ services
- Work in a long-lived, worker-mode PHP runtime with careful handling of request state
- Structure business logic by domain with clean layering, keeping it independent of infrastructure
- Build in resilience through multi-data-centre failover and asynchronous message processing
- Monitor and improve performance using OpenTelemetry tracing, query and index tuning, and caching with Redis and APCu
- Keep code quality high through strict static analysis, automated refactoring and design-focused code reviews
Your profile
- Strong programming skills and a genuine enthusiasm for software development
- Several years of hands-on PHP experience, ideally with Symfony or Laravel
- Confident with relational databases, Git, Docker and Linux
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools is a plus
- High quality standards and a structured, careful way of working
- Fluent German and English skills
The offer
- A permanent role at an established bank that still has a scale-up culture
- Long-term career prospects in a team that keeps growing
- Dedicated training and personal development support
- Free lunch, snacks and drinks in the office
- Employee discounts, Deutschlandticket and bike leasing
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