PHP Software Engineer

Job Overview

Join Stillfront Group as a PHP Software Engineer and become a part of our successful Payment Hub team. You will be responsible for developing, improving, and maintaining our payment service systems. Your primary responsibility is to ensure we have a maintainable and scalable product while delivering new features in line with the product strategy. You will work closely with the Payment, Fraud, Game, and Customer Service teams to facilitate strategic alignment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and Improve Systems: Independently develop and improve the payment system, including payment service providers, backend systems, services, and APIs.
• Full Stack Development: Develop applications and services from the infrastructure to the backend and frontend.
• Software Lifecycle Management: Take responsibility for the complete software lifecycle, including cooperation with stakeholders, architecture, development, automated testing, running, and monitoring.
• Technology Stack: Work with Amazon Web Services, Docker, PHP 8.0+, and corresponding frameworks.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure application quality through testing, pair programming, and code reviews.

Required Skills and Experience

• Programming Experience: Several years of relevant programming experience and a bachelor's degree in computer science or an equivalent education.
• Problem Solving: Solution-oriented and eager to devise practical solutions to complicated problems.
• Technical Proficiency: Proficient in object-oriented programming and open to additional programming paradigms.
• Technical Knowledge: Solid knowledge of PHP 8.0+, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
• Design and Architecture: Interest in Domain-Driven Design, Infrastructure as Code, and message-oriented architecture.
• Version Control and CI/CD: Familiar with Git and the concepts of Continuous Integration and DevOps.
• Language Skills: Fluent written and spoken English.

Benefits

• Flexibility: Work remotely or come to our modern office in Hamburg.
• Work-Life Balance: Competitive annual leave and flexible working hours.
• Team Environment: Join a supportive team in a pragmatic, yet challenging environment, with flat hierarchies and state-of-the-art technologies.
• Multicultural Workplace: Work in a multicultural environment with multidisciplinary and experienced colleagues from the entire product lifecycle in a culture of continuous development and learning opportunities.
• Team Building: Strong collaboration between the teams, regular studio events on-site, snacks and drinks available at the office.
• Transport Contribution: Contribution to public transport ticket (Deutschlandticket) for Germany-based staff.

About Stillfront Group

Stillfront Group is a global gaming company that develops a wide range of digital games attracting over 50 million players each month. Our portfolio includes well-established franchises like Supremacy, Big Farm, and BitLife, spanning many different genres, including strategy, simulation, RPG, action, and casual games. We believe gaming can be a force for good, focusing on creating a digital, affordable, equal, and sustainable gaming universe.