PHP Engineer (regular)

TransferGo is a growing fintech scale-up on a mission to champion financial freedom with care. We strive to provide tailored, more affordable financial services that make people's hard-earned money go further. Now in our 14th year, with close to 400 employees in offices across Europe and the UK, we’re crafting a brilliant, relevant product that makes a difference in people's lives and the well-being of their families. 

We’ve come this far by building a talented, diverse workforce on a fair culture and our strong values. Having this strong team of employees, we can serve those who really need our product to make their lives better. 

Your team & impact

Why Join This Team? What makes this team exciting? Impact, tech, visibility, growth?

What business or customer outcomes will they influence? What business problem will they need to solve or be a part of solving and influencing?

 Join us on our journey as a Senior PHP Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping how money is sent worldwide. You will work in a team of bright-minded individuals looking after delivering of at least one large project such as payment partner integration If you want to significantly impact the fintech industry, drive technological advancements, and collaborate with a team of forward-thinkers, we would love to have you on board. 

Here’s what you’ll be doing as Senior PHP Engineer:

• Own and evolve core payment system
• Drive technical architecture and design decisions
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders and external partners
• Lead complex projects end to end, from technical discovery and design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing optimization
• Identify opportunities for improvement and deliver solutions
• Help the team to get better by providing feedback on pull requests, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and suggestions how to improve team processes

Here’s what we’d love from our new Senior PHP Engineer:

We don’t expect you to meet every single requirement listed. What matters most is your motivation, mindset, and ability to learn. If you’re excited about this role and think you could be a great fit, we’d really like to hear from you.

• PHP
• Symfony
• MySQL
• Docker
• Knowledge of/willingness to learn .NET
• Ability to solve large and complex problems
• Ability to deliver solutions from requirements gathering to monitoring performance in production
• Ability to ensure the quality of the delivered work
• Ability to use AI to improve productivity without negative impact on the quality
• Ability to cover the code changes with meaningful and thorough automated tests
• Experience integrating 3rd party providers
• Experience with monitoring the application performance

And if you can also do this stuff, even better: 

• Temporal - big advantage if you have some experience
• React - we use it only for internal tools
• Laravel - legacy monolith service that we are taking apart is built on it

What we believe

At TransferGo, we offer competitive rewards to all people. We know that recognition is about more than just money, and we’ve fostered a culture of kudos to shine a light on the great work throughout the business, and the people making it all happen. We hold regular in-person events to connect with each other and help all our TransferNauts to grow with a generous training allowance. We believe that empowering people makes for a happier and more effective workforce. This means we enable anyone who wants to pursue initiatives that deliver real value for our migrant customers. 

What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary: Starting from 3100-4660  € (gross) per month, depending on experience. Salary is just one part of the conversation – if you’re excited about the role but the range feels slightly off, don’t hesitate to apply. We’re open to discussing based on your experience and potential.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Including a generous holiday allowance, competitive healthcare insurance, and a wellbeing package from day one.
• Annual Development Budget: €1,000 to invest in your personal and professional growth.
• Hybrid Working Environment: Flexibility to work from home and in the office, with most team members in the office two days a week.
• Pet-Friendly Office: If you’re near one of our offices, bring your furry friend along!
• Inclusive Culture: Regular in-person events, fostering a strong sense of community and collaboration.
• Empowerment and Ownership: We believe in empowering our people to take initiative and drive meaningful change.

At TransferGo, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees. We will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity,  marriage, civil partnership or any other protected category. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive culture and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join TransferGo. We look forward to meeting you!

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