Senior Full Stack PHP/JS Engineer - Core Team

Hello 👋

Bring your strengths. Raise the bar. Shape the future.

We’re looking for a high-performing Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our team and help us build the future of Matomo — the world’s leading open-source web analytics platform that empowers users with full data ownership and built-in privacy.

This is more than a coding role — it’s an opportunity to tackle complex challenges at scale work with a talented and driven team and help shape how we do engineering as we grow. You'll be working in the heart of our platform — contributing to our core application and plugin ecosystem — and making a meaningful impact on hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.

If you thrive in large codebases get energy from solving hard problems and are excited by the chance to bring your ideas passion and expertise into a high-impact environment we’d love to hear from you.

Roles and Responsibilities 🚀

Engineering Excellence

-   Design develop and maintain robust secure and performant software at scale.

-   Solve tough technical problems that matter — from performance bottlenecks to architectural improvements.

-   Navigate and contribute to a mature complex codebase — and leave it better than you found it.

-   Write clean well-tested maintainable code that your future self and teammates will thank you for.

-   Share your expertise through code reviews pairing and mentoring.

Product Collaboration

-   Work hand-in-hand with product managers and designers to deliver value that delights users.

-   Challenge assumptions refine ideas and bring an engineering perspective to product discussions.

-   Influence the roadmap by identifying impactful technical opportunities and trade-offs.

-   Stay close to the “who” and the 'why' behind what we build — not just the 'what.'

Shaping Our Growth

-   Be a culture and quality multiplier — bring energy curiosity and a drive to raise the bar.

-   Help evolve how we work — improving our engineering practices processes and standards.

-   Take initiative in shaping solutions identifying risks early and driving delivery forward.

-   As our company grows you’ll help define what great engineering looks like at Matomo.

About InnoCraft and Matomo 📊

At InnoCraft we’re building a more ethical privacy-first digital world. As the leading open-source web analytics platform Matomo powers over 1 million websites and apps in 190+ countries offering organisations the insights they need while maintaining full data ownership and user trust. In Germany Matomo is particularly popular with public institutions universities and companies that take GDPR compliance seriously.

We believe in openness privacy and transparency. Every month our platform processes billions of data points — transforming complex information into intuitive powerful reports that delight users. Matomo is available in 50+ languages and supported by a global fully remote community with strong hubs in New Zealand Germany and France. If you are interested you can take a look at our Github here: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo

Why Matomo 💡

- Privacy-first: Ethical analytics built around GDPR and user trust.

- Open Source: Shape a platform used in 190+ countries.

- Global team: Work with colleagues across Europe New Zealand and Canada.

- Established & Growing: Profitable and self-funded with double-digit growth for 5+ years and a steadily expanding global team.

- Fully Remote: 100% work-from-home within Germany with flexible hours.

- Career Growth: Clear Engineering Career Development Framework supporting skill progression and leadership growth.

- High Calibre Team: Join a collaborative group of experienced engineers focused on innovation and impact.

- AI-Empowered Development: Use AI tools and practices to accelerate experimentation development and quality.

Minimum qualifications 🤓

-   You have 8+ years’ experience in software engineering including full-stack development.

-   You’re highly competent in PHP and JavaScript and not afraid of diving deep into a large legacy codebase.

-   You bring a structured approach to solving complex problems and thrive in systems with many moving parts.

-   You’re passionate about building products and not just writing code — you want your work to have real impact.

-   You’re thoughtful pragmatic and care deeply about quality user experience and craftsmanship.

-   You collaborate with humility communicate clearly and enjoy learning from others as much as teaching.

-   You’re sure-footed in a remote environment and able to build effective working relationships with people on the other side of the world.

Bonus points for:

-   Experience with Vue.js or modern JS frameworks

-   Familiarity with large-scale open-source systems

-   Contributions to community projects or mentoring others

-   Comfort with Linux CLI databases (MySQL) and Git/GitHub workflows

Benefits 💪

-   Remote work (save many hours on commute and save money)

-   Budget for co-working space or work from home

-   Home office equipment supplied

-   Flexible hours

-   30 days of paid holidays per year plus your national public holidays

-   Sick leave

-   Health Insurance: Your Well-being Our Priority

-   A huge “playground” to grow your skill set

-   Volunteering Day: Empower Your Impact

-   Bereavement Leave for Pets: Compassion Beyond Boundaries

-   Training Opportunities

-   Mental Health Support Services

-   Opportunity to have an immediate impact on a product that is used by more than 1 million websites and almost 2% of the whole Internet

-   Opportunity to work in a customer obsessed business dedicated to building high-quality software with a strong mission of helping people grow their web projects while keeping full control of their data

Location 🌍

-   100% Remote work position

- Must be Located in Germany

Our Hiring Process 📝

-   Application → Screening

-   Online aptitude test

-   People & Culture interview

-   Technical skills interview

-   Take-home exercise

-   Final technical interview

Diversity and Inclusion

InnoCraft celebrates the things that make you you! We are an inclusive employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age marital status or disability. We actively seek diversity in our workplace and embrace individuals with unique backgrounds perspectives and abilities!

Come join our growing team that’s helping ensure a safer more privacy-focused web/internet!

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€80000 - €110000 a year