Senior Product Software Engineer- Backend (PHP)

About the role

Join our team as a Senior Product Software Engineer, where you'll help in designing and developing the core features of Clearfacts, a pre-accounting software used by accountants and their SME clients. As part of the Accounting Team, you’ll focus on enhancing the portal used by accountants, ensuring its scalability, performance, and robustness as we process millions of documents.

You'll play a key role in new feature development, maintaining and optimizing existing functionalities, integrating AI-powered enhancements, and driving technical excellence across the team. If you're passionate about building scalable and reliable software solutions in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you!

What you´ll do

• Help the development team in the creation of new features, ensuring high-quality, scalable solutions for accountants and their clients.
• Enhance and maintain core components of Clearfacts, focusing on performance, security, and reliability.
• Drive technical excellence by following coding standards, improving development workflows, and supporting the team.
• Optimize system scalability as we handle millions of documents, ensuring efficient data processing and performance.
• Collaborate closely with the product team, support team, and operations team to improve user experience and resolve complex issues.
• Implement AI integrations where applicable, enhancing automation and efficiency for accounting workflows.
• Ensure high code quality through rigorous testing, peer reviews, and best practices.
• Act as the main driver for innovation, continuously improving our technology stack and development processes.

What you´ll bring

We’re looking for an experienced engineer with at least 5 years of experience and a strong background in:

• Backend Development: PHP is required, experience with Symfony is a plus..
• Frontend Development (React): Some experience, particularly with React, is a bonus, but this is not a core requirement.
• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS
• Database Management: Amazon Aurora (MySQL compatible)
• Agile Development: Experience working in Scrum teams and collaborating with Product Owners
• Fluent in English
• Bonus: Interest in the financial/accounting sector is a plus but not required.

Working together

• Hybrid: This is a hybrid role, where you will spend at least eight days a month at our office, where you´ll enjoy the benefits of connecting and collaborating with your colleagues in person.

What we offer

• Impactful Work: You’ll be working on the core of our application, directly influencing how accountants manage financial data.
• Technical Challenges: Build solutions that scale efficiently to handle millions of documents.
• Collaborative Team: Work closely with product, support, and operations teams to deliver the best possible solutions with excellent user experience.
• Small but Strong Team: We value close collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.

Join us, at Wolters Kluwer, and be part of a global technology company that makes a difference every day. Be the difference. If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.