Backend Engineer, PHP
Quick Summary
8+ years of professional backend engineering experience, including hands-on work building and scaling distributed systems. Strong expertise in PHP and Symfony,
Join a high-scale engineering environment where you’ll build and evolve backend systems powering a global digital gaming marketplace and a growing portfolio of new products. You’ll work within a cross-functional team alongside backend, frontend, mobile, design, and data specialists. The role offers the opportunity to solve complex challenges across distributed systems, performance, reliability, trust, and safety. You’ll contribute to a modern microservices ecosystem spanning more than 100 services. Beyond delivering features, you’ll influence technical decisions, architectural direction, and engineering practices. With strong infrastructure and significant ownership, your work will have a direct impact on products used by millions of customers.
- Design, build, scale, and maintain reliable backend services using PHP and Symfony within a large microservices architecture.
- Develop and deliver product features while considering scalability, performance, reliability, and the overall user experience.
- Contribute to architectural discussions and help shape technical solutions for complex distributed-system challenges.
- Work with technologies including GraphQL, Golang, Temporal, Saga orchestration, and established service design patterns.
- Collaborate closely with frontend, mobile, design, data, and platform engineering teams to deliver high-quality products.
- Help improve engineering practices, code quality, observability, and system resilience across the technology ecosystem.
- Take ownership of technical problems from investigation through implementation and continuously look for opportunities to improve how the team works.
Requirements
~1 min read- 8+ years of professional backend engineering experience, including hands-on work building and scaling distributed systems.
- Strong expertise in PHP and Symfony, with experience working with modern versions of the framework.
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture and common distributed-system patterns such as CQRS, circuit breaking, and service orchestration.
- Experience working with databases and data stores such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Prometheus, InfluxDB, or Elasticsearch.
- Familiarity with cloud and infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, and Terraform.
- Ability to contribute effectively to architectural discussions and make thoughtful technical decisions.
- Strong problem-solving skills, a high level of ownership, and a product-minded approach focused on end-user impact.
- Openness to feedback and a collaborative mindset, with genuine interest in learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving, cross-functional engineering environment.
What We Offer
~2 min readLocation & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- October 6, 2026
- First seen
- October 6, 2026
- Last seen
- October 6, 2026
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- Trust Level
- 68%
- Scored at
- October 6, 2026
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