Hybrid Senior PHP Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior PHP Engineer developing and maintaining a monolithic banking application with PHP and Laravel. Collaborating on a complex system involving Oracle databases and backend/frontend teams in Prague.

Responsibilities

  • Working on a large, existing system built on PHP 8+ and Laravel Framework
  • Focus on understanding the current solution, making targeted changes, and evaluating their impact
  • Ensuring stability and reliability of a business-critical system
  • Troubleshooting production issues
  • Gradual evolution and improvement of a long-running system
  • Working with complex database logic and integrations
  • Close cooperation with the team across backend and frontend
  • Maintaining quality through testing, reviews, and engineering standards
  • Agile collaboration with emphasis on stability and thoughtful delivery

Requirements

  • 3-5 years of PHP experience, ideally within large-scale or legacy systems in banking/finance industry environment
  • Strong experience with Laravel framework and knowledge of Oracle database
  • Orientation in foreign code (monolith) and familiarity with the PHP ecosystem (Composer)
  • Basic front-end understanding (jQuery, vanilla JavaScript) and knowledge of Latte templates
  • Comfortable navigating and modifying existing codebases
  • Solid understanding of relational databases (transactions, joins, indexing, performance)
  • Experience with system integrations (REST, messaging - Kafka, ActiveMQ)
  • Ability to assess change impact and resolve production issues in critical systems
  • Experience with testing (PHPUnit/PEST) and static analysis (PHPStan)
  • Fluent Czech or Slovak for local collaboration
  • Intermediate English for communication with team and documentation

Benefits

  • life insurance
  • pension contribution
  • EN/DE/ES lessons
  • MultiSport card
  • sick days
  • meal allowance
  • lots of company events
  • hybrid remote work after mutual agreement

Job title

Senior PHP Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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