Backend Developer - PHP

Job Description

What does our company do?:

GoldenRace is a global market leader for virtual sports betting.

We are a growing team of motivated professionals from many backgrounds and disciplines, operating together in a positive and supportive environment to grow and excel as one of the most promising and rapidly expanding companies in the betting industry. Join us to help us build exciting virtual sports games.

Your mission as our PHP Backend Developer Hero will be to:

• Collaborate side by side with the back-end team, analysing and optimising different modules of our system, and on many occasions, creating new functionalities for some of our modules or for some of our APIs.
• Work in TDD and improve our code.
• Adopt new improvements and dynamics that help us to be more efficient and comfortable.
• Work in a dockerised development environment that allows you to reproduce a real production environment in your own team.
• Contribute to keep improving our product and maintain our position as the leading company in the virtual betting industry.

Your superpowers:

• Advanced level of verbal and written English.
• At least 3+ years of experience in PHP.
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming.
• Experience with MySQL, NoSQL databases and modern server components like Redis.
• Experience with Concurrency and Cronjob mechanisms.
• Familiarity with Symfony, Phalcon, or Laravel frameworks.
• Skilled in PHP unit testing.
• Comfortable with Linux and server-side development, especially in gaming applications.
• Experience with Integrations.
• Knowledgeable in writing/ integrating API systems, Git workflows, Algorithms and Data Structures.
• Understanding of CI/CD, web hooks, Pipeline tools and server-to-server communication (TCP, WebSocket, HTTP 1.1,2).
• Knowledge of ElasticSearch system and queries and RESTful architecture.
• Enjoy working in a collaborative team environment using tools like Favro, Git, Jira, etc.
• Be open to learn new technologies in case of new requirements.

We'd truly marvel...

• Experience with game mathematics implementation.
• Background in the iGaming industry.
• Familiarity with PHP Swoole technology.
• Experience with modern server components (RabbitMQ, Docker) and Golang programming language.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture.

Bonus pack! We offer:

• To ally yourself with the world's leading Virtual Sports company.
• Fully remote position.
• 4-day work week: even Superheroes need to relax.
• Full-time permanent contract (36h/ week).
• In-company training programmes (English classes and tech training) for you to fine-tune your superpowers.
• Flexible working hours.
• 22 days of holidays.
• Competitive salary.
• Great working environment. Like a Justice League, but better.
• Private health insurance. We want you to be super healthy!
• Space for career development.
• Joining a global industry and a fun, dynamic and truly international Superhero team.

Ready to don your cape?