Senior PHP Developer

FREEDOM FINANCE TECHNOLOGIES is a Cyprus-based fintech company and part of the international financial holding Freedom Finance. We develop and maintain trading and banking IT products, as well as the IT infrastructure of the holding worldwide.

Our team currently has 170 members. About a third work from our office in Cyprus, while the rest work remotely from various countries and cities around the world. Over the past three years, we have grown fourfold and continue to actively expand our team.

We have been developing our core product — a trading system for brokerage operations in the stock markets — since 2009.

More than 700,000 users in 41 countries use our applications.

Responsibilities

• Implementing new modules into web applications;
• Integrating with external services;
• Deploying new parts of the code into production;
• Estimating tasks;
• Participating in the design of product infrastructure improvements to enhance stability and performance;
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and implement solutions that meet business requirements;
• Designing architectural solutions, technologies, databases, and infrastructure to achieve stable and productive results.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a backend or full-stack developer;
• Experience with PHP 8;
• Solid understanding of OOP principles;
• Knowledge of SOLID principles;
• General knowledge of SQL;
• Experience working with Git from the command line;
• Experience with any PHP framework (Zend, Laravel, Symfony, Yii, etc.);
• Experience with nginx;
• Familiarity with the Linux command line;
• Willingness and ability to write unit tests;
• Knowledge of design patterns;
• Ability to read and understand existing code and use a debugger;
• Willingness to complete a mandatory test task.

Benefits

• Office-based role in Limassol, Monday to Friday (5/2), with a hybrid work option.
• 21 paid vacation days per year.
• Paid sick leave.
• Child allowance: €400/month per child under 18 living with you in Cyprus.
• Access to company sports teams (football, volleyball, men’s & women’s sailing, marathon).
• Yoga classes in the office.
• 50% compensation for private health insurance (if standard insurance is not enough).
• Tickets to online professional conferences.
• Paid courses in your field of work.
• Corporate discount for online English classes.
• Regular company events.
• Russian-speaking development team.