Senior PHP Engineer (Payments team)

TransferGo is a growing fintech scale-up on a mission to champion financial freedom with care. We strive to provide tailored, more affordable financial services that make people's hard-earned money go further. Now in our 14th year, with close to 400 employees in offices across Europe and the UK, we’re crafting a brilliant, relevant product that makes a difference in people's lives and the well-being of their 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.

Your team & impact

Join us on our journey as Senior PHP Engineer our Payments team. The Payments team owns integrations with banks and payment service providers (PSPs). They also build and maintain critical internal systems such as treasury, reconciliation, and financial reporting tools.

Here’s what you’ll be doing as Senior PHP Engineer:

Own and evolve core payment system

Drive technical architecture and design decisions

Collaborate closely with stakeholders and external partners

Lead complex projects end to end, from technical discovery and design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing optimization

Identify opportunities for improvement and deliver solutions

Help the team to get better by providing feedback on pull requests, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and suggestions how to improve team processes

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

We don’t expect you to meet every single requirement listed. What matters most is your motivation, mindset, and ability to learn. If you’re excited about this role and think you could be a great fit, we’d really like to hear from you.

PHP

Symfony

MySQL

Docker

Knowledge of/willingness to learn .NET

Ability to solve large and complex problems

Ability to deliver solutions from requirements gathering to monitoring performance in production

Ability to ensure the quality of the delivered work

Ability to use AI to improve productivity without negative impact on the quality

Ability to cover the code changes with meaningful and thorough automated tests

Experience integrating 3rd party providers

Experience with monitoring the application performance

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

Temporal - big advantage if you have some experience

React - we use it only for internal tools

Laravel - legacy monolith service that we are taking apart is built on it

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.