Senior Backend Engineer (PHP & Go)
Join Spaceflow as a Senior Backend Engineer and shape the future of digital experiences in buildings. Be part of a fast-paced startup where your expertise in backend development and event-driven architecture will make a direct impact on transforming properties into vibrant communities and take our platform to the next level.
Our engineering team is structured into frontend, backend, and mobile squads, collaborating in an agile environment with two-week sprints, standups, and retrospectives.
We're a startup with many possibilities, but now we expect hard work and a lot of code written. That’s also why we need you to help us bring our practices and code to the next level by guiding others or just inspiring them with your code and coding manners.
Our 3 core engineering principles are
- Fail Fast: We embrace rapid iteration and continuous improvement.
- No Question is Stupid: Curiosity drives innovation. Ask away.
- Sharing is Caring: Collaboration and knowledge-sharing are at the heart of our success.
Our Stack
- PHP8, Symfony, Eventstore, Go
- RabbitMQ & PostgreSQL
- Running on Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Cloud Run
- Cloud-Native development
- You can see the full stack on Stackshare.
What you'll work on
- What you'll work on Build and enhance features on the Spaceflow platform, ensuring scalability and performance. Take ownership of our event-driven architecture, making critical technical decisions to shape its future.
- Identify opportunities to improve platform development processes and workflows from a developer’s perspective.
- Collaborate closely with developers, the team lead, UX designers, and product managers to design and deliver impactful solutions.
- Architect and implement new key components, shaping them from conceptual whiteboard sketches to production-ready code.
- Refactor, maintain and upgrade existing systems to meet evolving business and technical needs.
- 5+ years of experience architecting and developing SaaS products.
- Deep expertise in PHP (Symfony), with proven experience in large, scalable systems.
- Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and SQL databases (PostgreSQL).
- Proactive mindset with the ability to work autonomously and guide technical discussions
- Strong architectural mindset, able to handle complex system design challenges.
- Proficient in Agile methodologies, with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Open to learning new technologies and adapting to fast-paced environments.
- Familiarity with issue-tracking tools like Jira.
We'd love it if you had
- Experience designing and building scalable and high-performance systems.
- A solid grasp of application security best practices.
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform or similar cloud services.
- A DevOps mindset, appreciating infrastructure as code and CI/CD workflows.
What We Offer
- Work remotely or visit our Prague office as often as you like – from daily to once a month.
- Flexibility: Work remotely or visit our Prague office as often as you like – from daily to once a month.
- Time Off: 25 days of paid leave + 4 paid sick days per year.
- Supportive Team: Join a young, driven, and collaborative team.
- Wellness Perks: Contributions toward gym memberships or fitness classes to keep you energized.
- Recognition & Rewards: Your hard work will never go unnoticed.
- Top Equipment: Company-provided gear to help you excel.
How to apply
No need for a cover letter! Simply send us your CV or LinkedIn profile, and if you have any code or projects you’d like to showcase, feel free to include a link.
About the company
At Spaceflow, we connect buildings with people, transforming properties into vibrant communities through our tenant experience platform. Since 2016, we’ve been driving digital transformation in buildings, enhancing convenience, and enabling smarter management.
You can learn more about us on our website: Spaceflow About Us.
Join us to shape the future of how people live and work in buildings. We can’t wait to meet you!
- Department
- Engineering
- Locations
- Prague
Prague
Workplace & culture
Experience the vibe of a fast scaling company: energy, drive, fast pace, quick results, new customers, new features. We have a hunger to build something big.
If you join the team, you will shape the culture, product, strategy and set new processes. There are many different things to do, you will learn on the go and experience various roles.
Enjoy maximum flexibility, freedom, and responsibility. We don’t like, micro-management. We enjoy the time together in office and after work, ideally in some beer pub.
If this sounds familiar, you will feel like at home, here.
Senior Backend Engineer (PHP & Go)
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