Backend Engineer, PHP

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.

• 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.