Lead PHP Developer

At WhiteTech, we empower businesses in the financial ecosystem with cutting-edge white-label and SAAS solutions.

Our comprehensive suite of tools is tailored for EMI, PSP, e-commerce, and open banking platforms. With WhiteTech, clients gain access to a platform designed for flexibility, scalability, and seamless integration.

Our mission is to help businesses unlock their full potential in a rapidly evolving financial landscape.

Whether scaling your PSP, enhancing your EMI services, or diving into open banking, WhiteTech is your partner for innovation and growth.

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).

Your role and impact:

In your role at WhiteTech, you'll be at the heart of our mission to revolutionize payments worldwide. Your expertise will be critical in analysing data, processes, and code to identify, resolve or prevent issues and drive product improvements. You will contribute to developing a secure, well-tested and high-performing product, setting new standards in the fintech industry.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Designing, developing, testing, documenting, releasing and supporting software from scratch.

Enhancing and refining our existing API and backend systems.

Integrating third-party solutions to broaden our payment ecosystem (acquirer, gateway, alternative payment methods, token platforms, systems for verification/scoring/monitoring of customer operations, reporting, etc.).

Running tests to make sure everything works as it should and setting up a testing environment for checking new features.

Fixing existing bugs and debugging the developed software.

Preparing necessary technical documentation.

Provide support for the implemented software in production

Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to complete all of the above tasks in the most efficient way.

This role is about improving our products and solving problems, so we're looking for someone with excellent troubleshooting skills, curiosity for innovations and unconventional solutions.

What makes you stand out:

Understanding of best practices for optimizing code and web products in PHP , working with caching, asynchrony. Knowledge of best practices for developing and supporting large-scale projects.

Deep understanding of OOP

Deep understanding of Symfony . Proficient in designing and implementing RESTful APIs using Symfony . Proficient in Doctrine ORM.

Relational Database Management (PostgreSQL). Proficiency in optimizing complex SQL queries for performance using techniques such as query rewriting, indexing strategies, and query execution plans.

Proficient in designing database schemas, including normalization techniques, entity-relationship modeling, and schema design best practices.

Understanding the inner workings of Kubernetes, Docker and its components such as Docker Engine, Docker Hub, Docker Swarm.