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PHP Backend Developer (w/m/d)

Marienthal, Hamburg🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-12 → 2026-09-23

Core

Backend developer building and migrating a high-traffic sports data platform from a monolith to a service-oriented architecture.

Role type

Senior PHP Backend Engineer

Builds

REST APIs, new platform features, and a migration to microservices for a sports data service.

Domain

Sports data technology / Web infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

PHP 7.4/8.x, Yii, Symfony, REST API design, MySQL, Redis, performance optimization, scalable architecture design

Preferred skills

Microservices architecture, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, agile methodology

Technologies

PHP, Yii, Symfony, MySQL, Redis, Memcache, Git, GitHub Actions, AMQP, Pub/Sub

Responsibilities

Develop new features on existing Yii-based platform and Symfony stack, build robust REST APIs connecting web and app projects, migrate monolith to service-oriented architecture, collaborate with stakeholders on API design and external service integration, ensure performance and scalability for millions of daily requests

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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