Senior PHP Engineer — Flexkeeping (via Remotesome)

About Flexkeeping

Flexkeeping is the most comprehensive hotel housekeeping and team communication platform.

What Flexkeeping does it expedites and automates daily operations and staff communication. Our task management and housekeeping software ensure hotel staff are always up-to-date, hotel rooms spotless, and workflow smooth. However, the ultimate winners are the guests!

Join our small and growing team who helps hotels around the world build amazing opportunities.

About the Job

We are looking for a senior PHP engineer for our exciting and growing team.
Our ideal candidate is a resourceful, enthusiastic, and collaborative engineer driven by having a high business impact. Someone with a bright mind, energetic personality, and passion for

exciting challenges and ability to steer the development on the backend side with right decisions.

In this position, you will be responsible for leading the backend efforts and steering the ship on the backend side while developing new functionalities and making our backend processing more robust and scalable to support future growth.

Tech Stack

Our backend APIs support Flexkeeping mobile clients (Android, iOS) and a React web application.

Our platform is hosted on AWS, and we use many services to make our life easier (i.e., RDS, S3, Cloudwatch, SNS, Firestore, Datadog, …).

What will you work on

• You will work with our backend services written in PHP and Node.js, which depends on Mysql, Firestore and S3 on the data layer

• You will write readable and easy-to-understand code in order to solve complex problems (this is what we call good engineering)

• You will own a meaningful part of our platform, have a big impact and grow with the company and set standards for the rest of the team members

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience working on the backend and at least 2+ years of experience with PHP

• You have contributed to complex backend systems in the past and you were involved in design (architecture, data modeling), as well as codifying the solutions

• You have worked with multiple programming languages and technologies in the past and it is easy for you to discuss the pros and cons of each one of them

• You care about high-quality code, written end-to-end testing, and consider performance, security, and scalability when building a product

• You are a proactive doer and communicator

• You write well-structured, quality code that’s easily maintainable by others

• You write code that interacts with various HTTP-based API’s, primarily REST-based

• You have good knowledge of PHP & SQL

Nice to have

• Knowing your way around AWS is a bonus

• Experience working with Node.js

• production experience with statically and dynamically typed languages

• You love building a product within a team of engineers (rather than on your own)

• You are data-driven and put facts above speculation

• You are proficient in English

• SaaS and B2B experience is a plus

Required Skills

• PHP — Advanced
• Software Architecture — Intermediate
• Data Modeling — Intermediate
• SQL — Intermediate
• REST — Advanced
• AWS — Intermediate
• Node.js — Nice to have

Benefits

• Fully Remote
• Flexible Hours
• COMPUTER
• Paid Time Off
• PAID SICK DAYS
• COMPANY RETREATS

Compensation

€50K – €75K/year

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