Middle PHP Engineer (w/m/d) at Billie
Berlin, Berlin, Germany -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

09 Jul, 25

Salary

0.0

Posted On

06 Jun, 25

Experience

7 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Query Optimization, Microservices, Symfony Framework, Production Systems, Relational Databases

Industry

Information Technology/IT

Description

We are Billie, the leading provider of Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment methods for businesses, offering B2B companies innovative digital payment services and modern checkout solutions. We are to create a new standard for business payments and have made it our mission to simplify the purchasing experience for all businesses making it a tool for growth. Our solutions are based on proprietary, machine-learning-supported risk models, fully digitized processes and a highly scalable tech platform. This makes us a deep-tech company building financial products, not the other way around. We love building simple and elegant solutions and we strive for automation and scalability.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTSMUST-HAVE:

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong PHP development expertise with the Symfony framework.
  • Experience building and maintaining high-availability production systems.
  • Solid understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures.
  • Proficiency with Git, CI/CD practices, and automated testing.
  • Experience with relational databases and query optimization.
Responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join our dynamic Purchase Team as a Software Engineer and play a pivotal role in architecting, building, and scaling our core buyer systems. These systems power millions in transaction volume and are critical to our business success. You’ll work in an autonomous, high-impact engineering team, tackling complex technical challenges with measurable business outcomes. Our hybrid work environment offers flexible arrangements tailored to team needs.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Design & Develop: Craft robust, scalable software solutions for our payments platform using modern PHP practices and event-driven architecture. Balance perfection with practical completion to deliver features efficiently.
  • Own Quality: Implement comprehensive testing strategies to ensure 99.9%+ uptime for mission-critical payment systems. Identify and mitigate security risks to maintain system integrity.
  • Drive Innovation: Lead technical initiatives to enhance performance, reduce operational costs, and elevate user experience. Proactively identify potential issues and communicate them to your manager.
  • Collaborate & Mentor: Engage in pair programming, lead code reviews, and mentor junior engineers to foster a culture of continuous improvement. Collaborate with the product manager on designing smaller features and translating product requirements into working features.
  • Champion Engineering Excellence: Implement CI/CD pipelines, contribute to technical documentation, and advocate for best practices. Provide constructive pull request reviews and occasionally point out issues to team members.
  • Measure Impact: Track and report on key technical metrics that drive business outcomes. Understand the team’s projects and domain well, and provide insights on how new features will impact overall system performance.
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