Senior PHP Developer

3 Months ago • 5 Years + • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior PHP Developer, you will extend PHP backend systems and APIs, building and enhancing them according to current stability, performance, scalability, security, and maintainability standards. You will work with marketing and other stakeholders to integrate new partner APIs and tracking systems into the user backend. Additionally, you will contribute by implementing new features to our Javascript/HTML tools and services. This role involves improving architecture, enhancing stability, performance, and scalability, implementing security and testing best practices, writing maintainable code, giving input for technical vision, partnering with teams to align technical work with business goals, and mentoring developers.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of professional PHP development experience
  • Expertise in PHP 8, unit testing, composer, PSRs, and modern PHP frameworks
  • Experience with multi-server, high-load PHP applications
  • Experience with complex, high-traffic PHP applications and APIs
  • Passion for writing clean, well-structured, maintainable code
  • Ability to implement and promote best practices
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to influence and mentor teammates
  • Ability to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements
  • Fluent in technical and business English
Good to have:
  • German language skills
  • Experience with agile methodologies like Kanban, Scrum
  • Enthusiasm about games
  • Interest in learning outside of the box and full-stack development

Job Details

Game development is our passion!

At Twin Harbour Interactive we strive to develop high-quality strategy games and make them accessible for all players around the world. In our eyes game development is a promise for fun and entertainment – that’s what we live and aim for!

As a Senior PHP Developer, you would extend our PHP backend systems and APIs, building, enhancing, and extending our backend API according to current stability, performance, scalability, security, and maintainability standards. You will directly work with marketing and other stakeholders to integrate new partner APIs and tracking systems into our user backend. You can also contribute by implementing new features to our Javascript/HTML tools and services.

YOUR MISSION

  • Participate in architecture improvements and modernization of our core PHP API and backend systems powering our games
  • Drive initiatives to enhance the stability, performance, and scalability of our PHP platform and live game systems
  • Implement security, testing, and development best practices
  • Contribute high-quality, maintainable PHP code using a wide range of technologies like Composer, Sentry, Sonar, PHPUnit, Github, Docker, MySQL, Memcache, Redis, Jenkins, Grafana, Nexus, and Nginx
  • Give input for the technical vision and roadmap for our PHP backend
  • Partner with Marketing, Product, and Game Design to align technical work to business goals
  • Implement the integration of new APIs, payment systems, and data tracking
  • Mentor and guide developers on your team, instilling best practices

YOUR BACKSTORY

  • 5+ years of professional experience in PHP development
  • Expertise in PHP 8, unit testing, composer, PSRs, and modern PHP frameworks
  • You have worked on multi-server, high-load PHP applications
  • Experience with complex, high-traffic PHP applications and APIs
  • Passion for writing clean, well-structured, maintainable code using design patterns appropriately
  • Ability to implement and promote best practices for reliability, performance, scalability, security
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to influence and mentor teammates
  • Ability to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements
  • Fluent in technical and business English; German language skills are a plus
  • You have experience with agile methodologies like Kanban, Scrum
  • You are enthusiastic about games and enjoy working in an interdisciplinary team
  • You are interested in learning outside of the box and also taking over full-stack development tasks


Join Twin Harbour Interactive

Where Strategy Meets Vision.

Twin Harbour Interactive is a global strategy game powerhouse, shaping the future of long-term multiplayer gaming. With offices in Hamburg and Malta, we design strategy games that bring people together—across borders and generations.

Whether you’re an expert tactician or an imaginative world-builder, there’s a place here for you to grow, thrive, and leave your mark.

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About The Company

Bytro strives to develop high-quality strategy games and make them accessible to all players around the world. We are committed to creating the best work environment possible and are not afraid to try out different initiatives to enable Bytronians to have more flexibility and a better work-life balance. At Bytro you can expect a professional working environment in a fun atmosphere:You will shape the future of the growing games market; we are an owner-managed company with a flat hierarchy and fast implementation of projects. There is a great team of colleagues you can rely on.

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