Senior PHP Software Engineer (Amsterdam) (offline)

Impact
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of one of our product-engineering squads. You are responsible for designing, developing, maintaining and supporting our communication products, and educating and mentoring your squad members.

Our products enable our customers to send out millions of SMS messages per day; place voice calls via our REST API; gain real time insights using our Dashboard and reach out to their consumers via IM platforms like WhatsApp.

We engineer reliable services, that process large amounts of sms, voice and chat traffic, are secure and deployed continuously. Your task is to design and maintain the software foundation that enables us to be highly-available, highly transactional, and ship fast & often.

Our product-engineering squads have the freedom, end-to-end responsibility and authority to create impactful products to empower both our internal and external customers. We operate using an agile development methodology, deploying code multiple times per day while always making sure that our applications are rigorously automatically tested and statically analyzed.

In return, you’ll gain access to one of the most fun, open, and ambitious groups of people working all around the globe. We push each other to be our ultimate best, and are the kind of company that will make you feel happy about getting out of bed to come and work every morning.

OUR TECH STACK:
Golang / PHP / Java / Python / ReactJS / JavaScript
Yii2 / Symfony
Docker / Kubernetes / Prometeus / Terraform
GCP
Redis
MySQL

Responsibilities

Help design and build a performant system
Work as part of a team to design scalable and fault-tolerant communication platforms
Refactor legacy parts of the system to sustain team and company growth.
Work with other engineers on the team to solve difficult but exciting system design and implementation problems.
Work with, and enable engineers on other teams that interact with the platform.
Teach others: One of the most meaningful tasks of a Senior Engineer is improving the knowledge level of the team members.
Be part of a self-steering team, where you make decisions together, on the project you’re working on.
You will flourish working in a hyper-growth environment where priorities change fast.

Skills and Qualifications

At least 5 years of relevant software development experience
Experience in one or more programming languages, including but not limited to; PHP, Golang, Ruby, Python, Java, and/or C#
Experience building and designing highly scalable and available distributed systems
Knowledge of design system architecture both on a theoretical level and applied level
Good level of understanding of fault-tolerant systems
Experience with refactoring legacy systems
Experience with test-driven development
Knowledge and experience with PHP and Symfony framework/components or Yii2 Framework would be a plus
In-depth knowledge of MySQL would be a plus
Experience with Docker, Containers and K8S would be an advantage
Able and willing to teach others and help them grow

Perks
Top-notch work equipment (MacBook, Large screen, Bose QuietComfort headphones, you name it!).
Swag to keep you looking fresh in summer and feeling warm in winter.
We are a team of foodies, so every single day, lunch is on us. Better said, our private chefs are serving great food all day long!
Friday after-work drinks at the office.
Weekly kickboxing, pilates and bootcamp classes at our office (on the rooftop in summer!).
The occasional company-wide gathering and team outings (dinners, paintball, bubble ball, LAN gaming, movie nights, we always find a reason to hang out).
A swanky new, spacious office with a ping pong table, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega and PS4.
Forward-thinking, talented and fun colleagues, hailing from more than 43 countries.

About MatcHR

At MatcHR we want to do something differently. With over 10 years of recruitment experience we want to build a recruitment solution that is accessible to everyone.

We treat Recruitment as a service. Whether you need help in sourcing talent, attracting talent or building talent pools we can partner with you on all your recruitment activities.

We are on a mission to make recruitment accessible to everyone, everywhere and by using a subscription model our only incentive is to build a long lasting partnership that works.

Company website:
www.matchr.io

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/matchr/