Backend Engineer - DevEx Team

TransferGo is a growing fintech scale-up on a mission to make the world a fairer place for migrants. We strive to provide tailored, more affordable financial services that make people's hard-earned money go further. With a team of more than 400 employees across the UK/Europe, we now support 8 million customers, building a product that truly impacts lives and supports families.

We’ve come this far by building a talented, diverse workforce on a fair culture and our strong values. Having this strong team of employees, we can serve those who really need our product to make their lives better. 

About the Team

The DevEx (Developer Experience) team is on a mission to make life easier for engineers across TransferGo. We don’t work on customer-facing features—instead, we focus on improving the foundations. Our goal is to optimise our existing PHP codebase, streamline development workflows, and boost the productivity of other engineering teams by removing friction and improving internal tooling.

If you're passionate about clean code, enjoy working behind the scenes to power up the rest of the engineering org, and want to leave things better than you found them—we’d love to hear from you.

Here’s what you’ll be doing as Backend Engineer:

• Helping to maintain services in a cloud-native, service-oriented environment, which will be used by multi-platform applications and hundreds of thousands of users.
• Enjoying a great level of autonomy, implementation approach and production operations of your services. We truly believe in the “Builders mindset”.
• Working closely with your fellow engineers to shape engineering strategy and the roadmap. Your work will directly impact day-to-day lives of your peers.

You’ll report to our Engineering Director.

Here’s what we’d love from our new Backend Engineer:

• Working experience with PHP.
• You are able to detect problems and find, create solutions.
• You have strong sense of ownership.
• You are a good communicator and are able to use English effectively at work.
• You can champion engineering innovation and best practices.
• You enjoy sharing your experience with other engineers and helping others to succeed.

And if you can also do this stuff, even better: 

• Experience with .NET.
• Exposure to working with microservices.

Here are some of our core tools helping us to get the job done:

• Runtime: PHP 7/8, Symfony
• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
• CI/CD: Github, Jenkins
• Data: MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, S3
• Test: phpspec, Behat, PHPUnit

Please take a look at our tech stack in detail on stackshare.io.

What we believe

At TransferGo, we offer competitive rewards to all people. We know that recognition is about more than just money, and we’ve fostered a culture of kudos to shine a light on the great work throughout the business, and the people making it all happen. We hold regular in person events to connect with each other and help all our TransferNauts to grow with a generous training allowance. We believe that empowering people makes for a happier and more effective workforce. This means we enable anyone who wants to pursue initiatives that deliver real value for our migrant customers. 

What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary: Starting from  €3,600 - €4,100 (gross) per month, depending on experience.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Including a generous holiday allowance, competitive healthcare insurance, and a wellbeing package from day one.
• Annual Development Budget: €1,000 to invest in your personal and professional growth.
• Hybrid Working Environment: Flexibility to work from home and in the office, with most team members in the office two days a week.
• Pet-Friendly Office: If you’re near one of our offices, bring your furry friend along!
• Inclusive Culture: Regular in-person events, fostering a strong sense of community and collaboration.
• Empowerment and Ownership: We believe in empowering our people to take initiative and drive meaningful change.

At TransferGo, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees. We will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity,  marriage, civil partnership or any other protected category. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive culture and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join TransferGo. We look forward to meeting you!

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