Senior Back-end Engineer - PHP, Payments Team (Remote in EMEA)

In November 2024, Printful and Printify came together as two equals and merged to form a global on-demand powerhouse. This role will involve working across our two platforms and brands, a unique and special challenge. To learn more about the merger, check out our blog post.

About Us:

Both Printify and Printful are pioneering production on-demand companies and platforms established in Latvia but with a global customer base.

Printify is bringing the dream of financial freedom and business ownership to the world by connecting e-commerce entrepreneurs with over 100 print-on-demand facilities around the globe. 

Printful has built world-class in-house production facilities and helps people to build their brands, empowering thousands of businesses—including iconic names like Coca-Cola and MTV. 

Our team is at the heart of our success. You’ll be part of a culture where everyone is respected, included, and encouraged to grow. We value continuous learning, uphold a high work ethic, and have fun along the way.

About the Team:

The Payments Product Squad is dedicated to ensuring a seamless and efficient payment experience for both our merchants and their customers. Key Responsibilities - Payment Method Integration, Payment Routing, Back-Office Support, Subscription Management, Multicurrency Support, User Experience, Collaboration (with our sister squads - Finance and Fraud).

About the Role:

As a Senior Back-end Software Engineer, your main task is to improve our Payments systems, ensuring they are scalable, robust, and capable of handling the growing demands of the organization.

Your role involves enhancing the extracting of the existing payments system, porting it to Temporal.io workflows, to manage high loads efficiently. You'll focus on creating a smooth and accurate payment experience for our merchants, including reliable financial transactions and reporting. Additionally, you will add new payment options and work on a Payment Orchestration Platform.

A key part of your job is to transform the Payments module into a separate Payments service, applying best practices from Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Event Sourcing.
 

Your Daily Tasks Will Entail:

• You will work alongside the product teams and product managers to iterate on new features within the joint organization

• You will take responsibility in the design and execution of your own initiatives

• You will help identify areas of improvement in the codebase and help contribute to making it better

• You will frequently pair with teammates to give and receive feedback from a code review to boost knowledge-sharing, and learning and improve the platform

• You will fix any prioritized bugs/issues tracked within the platforms

• You will participate as a presenter or attendee, in weekly coding or knowledge-sharing sessions

• You will learn, develop your soft skills and spend time discussing best practices and technologies with your peers
   

Your Qualifications:
 

• Good level of English (spoken and written)

• 5+ years' experience with PHP

• Experience with DDD (Domain-Driven Design)

• Experience with CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation)

• Experience with Distributed Systems

• Quality-oriented: follow best practices (Testing (ideally TDD), pair programming, continuous integration/deployment, Agile methodologies) and SOLID principles

• Experience with mentoring team members

Preferred Qualifications:
 

• Experience with Event Sourcing

• Experience with Monolith extraction into Microservices

Our Tech Stack:
 

• Backend: PHP 8.1+, Symfony, Laravel & Yii2, Doctrine, PhpUnit, static code analysis tools.

• Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis.

• Engineering Tools: Postman, Git, GitLab, GitHub Copilot, PhpStorm, Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker,

• Remote work Tools: Tuple, Jira, Miro, Google Workspace, Slack.

• Development Practices: Pair Programming, Code Reviews, Continuous Integration/Deployment.