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Senior Back-end Engineer - PHP, Node.js

Jobgether

Netherlands

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Senior Back-end Engineer position for a fast-growing global engineering organization, fully remote across EMEA. Requires 5+ years of back-end development experience with PHP or Node.js, strong knowledge of high-load architecture, distributed systems, DDD, and CQRS. The role involves designing and delivering reliable, scalable systems, collaborating with product managers, and contributing to a strong engineering culture.

Core AIRemoteFull-timeSeniorPHPNode.js

Senior Back-end Engineer - PHP, Node.js

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Core AIRemoteFull-timeSeniorPHP

Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Netherlands, NL

Work Model

Fully remote across EMEA

Experience Required

5 years

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

PHPNode.jsDomain-Driven Design (DDD)CQRSSOLIDTDDCI/CDAgileAutomated TestingSymfonyLaravelYii2DoctrinePHPUnitMySQLPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisAWSKubernetesDockerGitGitLabGitHubGrafanaKibanaPrometheusPostmanLLMsClaudeGitHub Copilot

Soft Skills

Product mindsetOwnershipCritical thinkingAdaptabilityCollaborationCommunication

Key Responsibilities

•Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality, scalable back-end software, while continuously improving existing code and architecture.
•Contribute to the development of commerce solutions capable of supporting high-load and distributed environments.
•Take ownership of technical initiatives from design through execution, ensuring projects are delivered against agreed priorities and business objectives.
•Partner closely with product managers and stakeholders to translate business needs into effective technical solutions and challenge requirements when a different approach would create greater user or business value.
•Apply sound architectural principles, including Domain-Driven Design (DDD), CQRS, and distributed systems patterns, to build maintainable and resilient services.
•Participate actively in code reviews, refactoring, testing, debugging, and pair programming to maintain high engineering standards.
•Identify and prioritize bugs, performance issues, and platform improvements, taking ownership of their resolution.
•Monitor and optimize application performance, reliability, and overall system quality.
•Contribute to a culture of continuous learning through technical knowledge-sharing sessions, mentoring, and best-practice discussions.
•Use AI and LLM-based development tools thoughtfully to support architecture exploration, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and code quality.

Senior Back-end EngineerPHPNode.jsRemoteEMEADistributed SystemsDDDCQRSAI-assisted developmentFull-time

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

Soft Skills

Product mindsetOwnershipCritical thinkingAdaptabilityCollaborationCommunication

Key Responsibilities

•Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality, scalable back-end software, while continuously improving existing code and architecture.

•Contribute to the development of commerce solutions capable of supporting high-load and distributed environments.

•Take ownership of technical initiatives from design through execution, ensuring projects are delivered against agreed priorities and business objectives.

•Partner closely with product managers and stakeholders to translate business needs into effective technical solutions and challenge requirements when a different approach would create greater user or business value.

•Apply sound architectural principles, including Domain-Driven Design (DDD), CQRS, and distributed systems patterns, to build maintainable and resilient services.

•Participate actively in code reviews, refactoring, testing, debugging, and pair programming to maintain high engineering standards.

•Identify and prioritize bugs, performance issues, and platform improvements, taking ownership of their resolution.

•Monitor and optimize application performance, reliability, and overall system quality.

•Contribute to a culture of continuous learning through technical knowledge-sharing sessions, mentoring, and best-practice discussions.

•Use AI and LLM-based development tools thoughtfully to support architecture exploration, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and code quality.