Backend/PHP Engineer

Help Us Build The Future of Travel

At Airalo, we're making it easier for people to stay connected wherever they travel. As the world's first eSIM store, we help millions of travelers access affordable mobile data in 200+ countries and regions around the world.

Today, we're a team of 400+ people across 60+ countries, building a product used by travelers every day. We've grown quickly, but we've worked hard to keep what matters: trust, ownership, and the freedom for people to do great work without unnecessary layers or bureaucracy.

We're fully remote by design, genuinely global, and united by a shared mission to make travel simpler for everyone.

Your Next Destination

• Location: Remote, anywhere in Spain or the UK.
• Contract:
  • Spain: Full-time, permanent contrato indefinido via Deel (our employer of record in Spain)
  • UK: Full-time, permanent
• Benefits: Learn more about our benefits here in this link - https://airalo-public.notion.site/Benefits-25396a97ffca81fb9bc1f0be479f1be3?pvs=74
• Languages: English is our main working language day to day, so you'll need to be comfortable communicating in it both in meetings and async.

Are you a talented engineer who loves building clean, functional code and solving technical challenges in PHP?

Join our team as a Mid-Level Backend Engineer, where you will help evolve our global platform serving more than 20 million users. We value strong engineering fundamentals, a growth mindset, and the ability to deliver reliable features in a fast-paced environment. While we use Laravel, we highly value the core engineering skills of Symfony developers who are eager to adapt their expertise to our ecosystem.

Your main responsibilities are:

Develop and maintain robust backend services capable of handling high-volume global traffic.

Implement functional APIs and optimize query performance to ensure a seamless user experience.

Contribute to our modular architecture, helping us build resilient, service-oriented systems.

Write clean, maintainable code by applying SOLID principles, OOP best practices, and design patterns.

Master the art of debugging, identifying and resolving issues across our stack with precision.

Integrate asynchronous processes using queues and basic event-driven patterns to improve system efficiency.

Collaborate closely with Senior Engineers and Product teams to turn requirements into high-quality technical solutions.

Does this sound like you:

Bonus: