# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company**: bunq
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://careers.bunq.com/o/senior-backend-engineer-4
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_eec96030-9d4

## Description

Are you ready to revolutionize the way people experience banking?

At bunq, we’re here to make life easier and redefine what banking can be. This is your chance to shape the future of digital banking by creating the best app experience imaginable. Use your coding prowess to build and enhance the Bank of The Free, ensuring seamless, secure, and flawless functionality for our users.

**Take Ownership**

As bunq's Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be at the forefront of our backend development, ensuring our employees and users experience unparalleled stability and performance.

- Collaborate with our product team to design and implement robust backend structures for cutting-edge, user-facing features, utilizing technologies like MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and PHP.

- Provide continuity and growth for our backend team by mentoring and guiding junior developers, helping them unlock their full potential.

- Manage high-availability production systems and support other departments by developing and maintaining efficient, scalable processes.

**Requirements**

- Our PHP-based backend is intuitive, so no prior PHP experience is needed while experience in any object-oriented language will do.

- You're able to build your own projects and manage high-availability production systems.

- You use your creativity to build industry breaking user facing features.

- You coordinate efforts to increase efficiency and scalability.

- You're fluent in English, both speaking and writing.

**Your space to perform**

We give you the space and the tools you need to succeed. Our team is great, international colleagues who share your mindset. We offer a hybrid setup: after 3 months in-office, work 2 days remote, 3 days in-office weekly. We also have a Digital Nomad Program: After your first year, enjoy up to 20 days per year to work while traveling, combining flexibility with strong team collaboration. We reward tenure with a dedicated travel budget: €1.5k after 2 years and €3k after 4 years to visit another core office.

## Skills

### Required
- MySQL
- Redis
- Elasticsearch
- PHP
- object-oriented language