# Senior PHP Developer

**Company:** [Talentgrator](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/xsrZynjHYh6UW7LTSXNEJc.md)
**Location:** Remote
**Workplace:** remote
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Saas Platform| iGaming

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## Description

### About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior PHP Developer to join our team and take ownership of critical components of a large-scale, high-load platform processing tens of thousands of requests per second and terabytes of data daily.

Our core product is a powerful enterprise monolith with a modular architecture. As the business continues to grow, we focus on maintaining exceptional reliability, performance, and scalability while continuously evolving the platform.

You will work alongside a team of senior-level engineers, contributing to architectural decisions, optimizing distributed processes, and driving engineering excellence across the organization.

### What You'll Do

### Core Platform Development

-   Design, develop, and optimize key modules of a high-performance PHP platform.
-   Ensure reliability, maintainability, and scalability of the codebase.
-   Take technical ownership of critical business domains and services.

### Architecture & System Design

-   Participate in architectural decision-making for a large enterprise monolith.
-   Design integration patterns with databases and external systems.
-   Improve modularity and maintain clear boundaries between platform components.

### Data Layer Optimization

-   Design efficient data models and storage strategies.
-   Optimize MySQL queries and ORM performance under heavy production workloads.
-   Work with large datasets and contribute to analytical solutions using ClickHouse.

### Event-Driven Architecture

-   Design and maintain asynchronous processing solutions using Apache Kafka.
-   Build reliable integrations between internal services and external systems.

### Observability & Reliability

-   Integrate telemetry into applications using OpenTelemetry-based solutions.
-   Analyze application performance and identify bottlenecks.
-   Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents.
-   Contribute to monitoring, logging, and tracing practices.

### Engineering Excellence

-   Conduct meaningful code reviews and mentor fellow engineers.
-   Promote high development standards and best practices.
-   Collaborate closely with Product Managers, QA Engineers, DevOps, and other stakeholders.

## Requirements

\- 5+ years of commercial PHP development experience.

\- Strong knowledge of PHP 8.x and modern backend development practices.

\- Deep understanding of OOP, SOLID principles, design patterns, and clean architecture.

\- Experience building and maintaining large-scale backend systems.

### Technical Skills

-   Strong experience with Symfony and/or Laravel.
-   Advanced knowledge of MySQL, including:

-   Query optimization
-   Indexing strategies
-   Replication
-   Locking mechanisms
-   High-volume data processing

-   Experience with Redis.
-   Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka.
-   Understanding of observability, logging, and application profiling.
-   Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
-   Experience working in CI/CD environments.

### Nice to Have

-   Experience with ClickHouse at scale.
-   Experience building analytics or data lake solutions.
-   Experience refactoring large monolithic applications into modular domains.
-   Knowledge of OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing.

### Soft Skills

-   Strong ownership mindset and accountability.
-   Ability to work independently and make technical decisions.
-   Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
-   Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams.

### Tech Stack

-   PHP 8.x
-   Symfony / Laravel
-   MySQL
-   Redis
-   Apache Kafka
-   ClickHouse
-   Docker
-   Kubernetes
-   Prometheus
-   Grafana
-   OpenTelemetry

### What We Offer

-   Opportunity to work on a high-load platform handling massive volumes of traffic and data.
-   A team composed of senior-level engineers.
-   High level of technical ownership and impact.
-   Remote-first environment with flexibility across Europe.
-   Hybrid and on-site opportunities in Prague, Czech Republic.
-   Long-term collaboration on challenging engineering problems.

## Benefits

-   20 vacation days and 5 family days yearly
-   Flexible start to the workday
-   Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist
-   Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events
-   Access to our internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities
-   Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support