Software Architect (PHP/Symfony)
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We are a remote-first technology company and welcome applications from candidates across Europe, including the EEA, the UK, Switzerland, and other non-EEA European countries such as Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Montenegro, Turkey, and the Western Balkans. We also consider applicants from different locations who can work within Central European Time (CET)., CETFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of backend development experience
- Required Skills
- DockerPHPPostgreSQLKubernetesRedisSymfonyMicroservicesDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend development experience.
- Strong commercial experience with PHP and Symfony.
- Previous experience as Software Architect, System Architect, Solution Architect, Principal Engineer, or Lead Backend Engineer.
- FinTech, Payments, Banking, EMI, PSP, or Open Banking experience.
- Deep understanding of OOP, SOLID, GRASP, and design patterns.
- Strong experience designing high-load and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
- Experience with Event-Driven Architecture, CQRS, and Event Sourcing.
- Experience designing microservice architectures and service communication patterns.
- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, performance optimization, and database design.
- Experience with Redis, message brokers, caching strategies, and asynchronous processing.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native environments.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve the architecture of mission-critical fintech products.
- Define architectural standards, engineering principles, and best practices across teams.
- Lead architectural reviews and validate technical solutions proposed by engineering teams.
- Design highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
- Drive system decomposition, domain boundaries, and service interactions.
- Collaborate with Technical Leads on complex technical challenges and strategic initiatives.
- Participate in the design of integrations with banking systems, compliance services, and other external platforms.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks, bottlenecks, and scalability limitations.
- Support modernization initiatives, architectural refactoring, and technical debt reduction.
- Collaborate with Product and Business stakeholders to transform business requirements into sustainable technical solutions.
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