IT · Remote — worldwide · Full-time

Senior Backend Developer (PHP)

Role Description

ABOUT COMPANY

Firebird is an international online travel company that organizes trips to Europe for customers from around the world. We have a dedicated software development department that focuses on our products that allow everyone else to deliver some of the top-notch, worldwide services. Currently, there are a number of commercially available projects in production that are being actively worked on:


TECH STACK

PHP | Drupal 11, MariaDB/MySQL, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Docker.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Designing and creating the project architecture;
  • Back-end development;
  • Analysis of business requirements and design of their implementation based on existing and new systems;
  • Modification, implementation and creation of custom modules and components;
  • Integration with external services (Payment systems, Salesforce, GDS services, etc.);
  • Conducting code reviews;
  • Work with version control systems;
  • Work in Jira, Confluence.

REQUIREMENTS

  • 3+ years of backend development experience;
  • Strong communication skills;
  • Strong knowledge of PHP (>8.0), code refactoring, coding standards;
  • Experience with at least one of the popular PHP frameworks;
  • Knowledge and practical application of OOP principles;
  • Understanding how web servers work, working in Nginx + php-fpm bundles;
  • Experience with coding with AI-agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex)
  • Ability to work with the Linux console;
  • Experience with version control systems (Git).

WHAT WE OFFER

  • Competitive compensation based on interview results;
  • Opportunity to build a stellar career in a fast-growing international travel company;
  • Opportunity to work with advanced top-of-the-line software for travel management;
  • Interesting, challenging tasks and a world-class team.
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