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Senior Software Engineer – PHP, TypeScript, Node.js
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Senior Software Engineer – PHP, TypeScript, Node.js
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – PHP, TypeScript, Node.js based in United Kingdom.
This role offers the opportunity to build reliable, scalable software solutions that power global commerce experiences.
You will work on complex engineering challenges while shaping products used by customers and businesses worldwide.
The position combines deep technical expertise, product thinking, and ownership within a modern distributed engineering environment.
You will design and optimize scalable systems, contribute to architectural decisions, and help improve engineering practices.
Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will transform customer needs into impactful technical solutions.
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced engineer who enjoys autonomy, collaboration, and continuous innovation.
Accountabilities
You will take ownership of complex engineering initiatives, designing and delivering high-quality software while contributing to technical excellence across the organization. Your main responsibilities will include:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions aligned with engineering best practices.
- Build and optimize distributed systems, cloud-native services, and scalable data processing solutions.
- Own technical initiatives from initial design through implementation, monitoring, debugging, and continuous improvement.
- Improve system reliability through effective monitoring, observability, automated health checks, and alerting solutions.
- Drive improvements in engineering standards, code quality, maintainability, and development processes.
- Break down large technical challenges into incremental deliverables that enable efficient execution and fast iteration.
- Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to understand customer needs and deliver solutions with measurable impact.
- Make thoughtful technical decisions by balancing customer value, delivery speed, engineering quality, and long-term scalability.
- Contribute to architecture discussions and help shape technical solutions within your engineering squad.
- Mentor other engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, onboarding support, and knowledge sharing.
- Promote a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and technical excellence.
- Work proactively across teams to solve ambiguous problems and contribute to broader engineering initiatives.
- Use AI-assisted development tools and modern workflows to improve implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and code quality.
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Requirements:
The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer with strong technical foundations, a product mindset, and the ability to independently solve complex engineering challenges. The required qualifications and skills include:
- Significant experience building and operating production software in modern product engineering environments.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience designing scalable and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience developing backend applications using PHP (Symfony), Node.js, and TypeScript.
- Experience working with frontend technologies such as Angular (TypeScript) is considered an advantage.
- Strong understanding of modern data architectures, scalable data pipelines, and distributed storage solutions.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, messaging systems, infrastructure automation, and containerized environments.
- Knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and cloud-native service architectures.
- Experience with databases and data technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB.
- Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, debugging, and operating production systems at scale.
- Experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, continuous delivery, and engineering best practices.
- Ability to independently solve complex technical problems while keeping customer and business outcomes in mind.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfortable taking ownership, making technical trade-offs, and driving initiatives forward in ambiguous situations.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools and LLM-based solutions to improve engineering workflows.
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Benefits:
- Fully remote work opportunity within EMEA, with flexibility to work from anywhere.
- Option to work from a modern office environment depending on location.
- Flexible working hours, allowing you to organize your schedule effectively.
- Private health insurance.
- Additional paid time off focused on mental and physical well-being.
- Extra paid day off to celebrate your birthday or another personal milestone.
- Access to internal and external learning opportunities.
- Mentorship programs, internal meetups, and technical hackathons.
- Healthy lunch support when working from the office.
- Employee discounts for company merchandise.
- Engaging team-building activities and international company events.
- Opportunity to work with a diverse, global, and ambitious engineering community.
How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
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