Senior Software Engineer / PHP Backend Specalist (PHP + PGSQL)
Instafreight
Engineering | Berlin, DE
About us
We digitize the logistics industry, a €250+bn market in Europe! As the leading online road freight forwarding company in Germany, we offer business customers a fully digital booking experience for logistics services – with one click only and as simple as online shopping.
Our five core values guide us in our interactions with customers, partners, and among each other:
We solve the problem first
We are different together
We celebrate success
We deliver on our promises
We empower growth
Your tasks
As a Backend engineer you work on the core parts of the application to deliver rich APIs and solve tricky problems with a focus for stability and reliability
Being a specialist you bring expertise to application and database architecture and have advanced debugging skills
You are a positive and forward-looking human being - robots are cool and all, but we're a team that likes working together
You will become responsible for critical, user-facing parts of the platform. This means: - Plan, propose and implement big and small projects from start to finish / -Improve and optimize as the requirements change / - Drive evolution of architecture / - Ensure reliability / - Test, monitor and add resilience
Collaborate closely with others, splitting tasks or pair programming as necessary, to leverage different skill sets and specialties across the team
Adopt, share and adapt conventions and best-practices - level up individually and as a team over time
Requirements
You are self-motivated and strive to solve problems effectively
3-5 years of experience developing in both PHP and SQL
Confident in advanced SQL and NoSQL storage concepts
Ability to deal with concurrency and Caching
Familiarity with software and programming fundamentals regardless of language/Framework
Proven track record of projects in production
Up-to-date familiarity with modern PHP and SQL eco-systems
Code quality, Continuous Integration and scalability mean something to you
You feel comfortable owning complex Systems Pragmatism
Fluent English speaking & writing skills
Willingness to learn & master any technology, language, or development environment that we might need in the future
Experience with Redis and queues a plus
We digitize the logistics industry, a €250+bn market in Europe! As the leading online road freight forwarding company in Germany, we offer business customers a fully digital booking experience for logistics services – with one click only and as simple as online shopping.
Our five core values guide us in our interactions with customers, partners, and among each other:
We solve the problem first
We are different together
We celebrate success
We deliver on our promises
We empower growth
Your tasks
As a Backend engineer you work on the core parts of the application to deliver rich APIs and solve tricky problems with a focus for stability and reliability
Being a specialist you bring expertise to application and database architecture and have advanced debugging skills
You are a positive and forward-looking human being - robots are cool and all, but we're a team that likes working together
You will become responsible for critical, user-facing parts of the platform. This means: - Plan, propose and implement big and small projects from start to finish / -Improve and optimize as the requirements change / - Drive evolution of architecture / - Ensure reliability / - Test, monitor and add resilience
Collaborate closely with others, splitting tasks or pair programming as necessary, to leverage different skill sets and specialties across the team
Adopt, share and adapt conventions and best-practices - level up individually and as a team over time
Requirements
You are self-motivated and strive to solve problems effectively
3-5 years of experience developing in both PHP and SQL
Confident in advanced SQL and NoSQL storage concepts
Ability to deal with concurrency and Caching
Familiarity with software and programming fundamentals regardless of language/Framework
Proven track record of projects in production
Up-to-date familiarity with modern PHP and SQL eco-systems
Code quality, Continuous Integration and scalability mean something to you
You feel comfortable owning complex Systems Pragmatism
Fluent English speaking & writing skills
Willingness to learn & master any technology, language, or development environment that we might need in the future
Experience with Redis and queues a plus