Senior Backend Engineer (PHP)

This role offers a remote or hybrid work offering for a Bulgarian-based individual. Kindly note that applications will only be considered if you are located in Bulgaria and have the legal right to work in Bulgaria.

In May 2023 Reward Gateway was acquired by Edenred. Edenred is a leading digital platform for services and payments for people at work, connecting 52 million users and 2 million partner merchants in 45 countries via close to 1 million corporate clients.

With our shared missions of ‘Making the World a Better Place to Work” and ‘Enriching connections, For good’, you’ll be contributing to improving employee engagement and building better, stronger and more resilient organisations to improve people’s daily lives. Our shared mission guides our every action and charts a sustainable path to a better future.

Due to growth and expansion, an opportunity has become available for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer who is keen to develop extraordinary products and be part of our fast-growing business.

Some of the core duties include:

• Defining, interpreting and developing software to written requirements and technical specifications
• Suggesting improvements to existing products and implementing them across our platform.
• Troubleshooting, testing and maintaining the core product and databases to ensure it is functional and scalable
• Assist QA to define acceptance tests and perform troubleshooting
• Support the creation and maintenance of technical documentation
• Write clean, well-designed code, following coding standards and best practices
• Working with globally distributed and multi-disciplinary teams
• Participate in mentoring and knowledge sharing activities

The experience and skills needed:

• 8+ years experience with web application backend development and a good level of PHP and MySQL (or other DBMS)
• Practical knowledge of OOP concepts and SOLID principles
• Experience with Unit and Integration testing
• Experience with SQL, REST APIs and GraphQL
• Knowledge of web product development and services, with awareness of the full-stack
• A good understanding of building and operating cloud-based microservices
• Good English communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience leading or mentoring others will be advantageous

The interview process:

• A video interview with the Senior Talent Partner and Engineering Lead. This should last no longer than 30 minutes.
• Final video interview of 75 minutes that will consist of 3 stages. This includes:
  • 50 minutes to discuss your experience and technical abilities
  • 15 minutes to review and discuss a coding exercise
  • 10 minutes to ask questions you may have

Be comfortable. Be you.

At Reward Gateway, we want all of our employees to feel comfortable bringing their passion, creativity and individuality to work. We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, as we truly believe that diversity drives innovation. Express yourself, join our community and help us Make the World a Better Place to Work.

We hire BETTER.

From perks to people, our BETTER approach to hiring earns us more trust, happier people and more world-class talent that help us to make the world a better place to work.

About Reward Gateway

Reward Gateway is culture and client driven. We’re obsessed with putting the “Human” in HR and are proud to have been 100% dedicated to HR for over a decade. Since 2007, we’ve been right by the side of the world’s most innovative HR people, giving them beautiful products and tools they can use to attract, engage and retain their people.

The world’s most successful companies treat their people differently. They generate stock market returns of twice their peers and they have half the employee turnover. 76% of CEOs recognize that employee engagement is vital to their success but only 24% say they have a highly engaged company. Bridging that engagement gap is what drives us.