PHP Software Engineer (PHP)

Location: Bratislava, Slovakia; hybrid work arrangement

Basic wage component: from 2000 EUR gross per month. Performance bonus is paid twice per year, up to 15% of the basic salary for the evaluation period.

Company

hirify.global's Global Web Development team builds and operates websites, the hirify.global Knowledge Base, hirify.global BLOG, the hirify.global Science Award site, and the internal hirify.global CMS platform.

What you will do

• Build and maintain REST APIs serving product data, pricing, localized content, and forms to web frontends.
• Improve performance and reliability by optimizing slow queries and endpoints, adding caching, rate limiting, and sensible limits.
• Investigate production incidents, fix root causes, and ensure services remain reliable during traffic peaks.
• Apply secure development practices, participate in security reviews, and fix vulnerabilities identified by scans and audits.
• Build webhooks and system automations and contribute to AI-assisted development in code, tests, and reviews.
• Own features from ticket through production in a Scrum process, collaborating with product owners, frontend, .NET, and DevOps colleagues.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of commercial experience building PHP 8.x applications with Laravel or Symfony.
• Good knowledge of OOP, SOLID, common design patterns, and dependency injection containers.
• Experience designing and maintaining REST APIs and integrating third-party APIs.
• Strong MySQL or PostgreSQL skills, including reading query plans and optimizing slow queries.
• Experience writing automated tests with PHPUnit, including unit and feature/integration tests.
• Daily use of Git, Docker, Composer, and Linux, plus experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript knowledge sufficient for close collaboration with frontend developers.
• Experience debugging production issues.
• English at B2 level or higher.
• A university degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• GraphQL.
• Azure or AWS/GCP and basic Kubernetes.
• Redis, queues, and message brokers such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Observability tools including Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
• Domain-Driven Design, CQRS, or event-driven architecture.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and AI-powered engineering workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Two-week Scrum sprints with planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Pull-request reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD deployment pipelines are part of the development process.
• Open architecture discussions and ownership of features through production.
• Health and well-being benefits including healthcare programs, sick days, BenefitPlus, a Multisport card, and supplementary pension saving.
• Family allowances, office refreshments and facilities, team events, loyalty benefits, and external-provider discounts.
• Learning opportunities, business-critical projects, and access to modern AI tools.