Backend Developer, PHP, fully remote (f/*/m)

Location: No location restrictions, we hire remotely worldwide ?

Language: We operate internally and externally in English (US)

Hours: 40 hours per week for full-time. You're free to choose your own hours as long as there's some overlap during the daytime of our CET team for meetings and other internal culture events

Part-time options: We'll consider part-time options for this role, please mention what you're looking for in your application

Salary: We're considering both mid-level (starting salary of €46,000 - €53,000) and senior-level candidates for this role (starting salary of €57,000 - €69,000).

Note: We've defined a salary range for this role based on the level of initiative and experience we're looking for. This isn't the “limit” and there's room for you to grow at Frontastic.

"We're a very technical team, and we approach every challenge head-on. We know we can rely on each other, and we live by our values — we're in this together. With a unique product comes unique challenges, and we overcome them using our strengths and expertise." – Jim, Backend Developer

• Assist Carlos, Jim, and Toby in finishing the 1st version of our new cloud function extension points
• Ask Kore, our Chief Technical Officer everything you want to know about our stack and architecture
• Release your 1st library or API addition to production with Carlos, our Backend Developer
• Bond with your team members and Catherine, our Product Manager
• Discuss future features with Heidi, our Product Lead and Peter, our Chief Product Officer to build a shared understanding and communicate technical trade-offs of potential implementations

? You'll likely have this experience

• PHP — knowledge of Symfony or a similar framework is a plus
• Testing PHP code: domain logic with unit tests, and the most critical user paths with end-to-end tests
• Relational databases, document-based databases, and/or key-value storages
• Infrastructure automation tooling, knowing Ansible and Terraform in particular would be a plus
• Managing and scaling node.js servers
• Go and Bash would be a plus, but not required

• React (plain and TypeScript) and Next.js in the frontend
• MaterialUI, SCSS, and Tailwind
• PHP with Symfony and Node.js in the backend
• MySQL and CouchDB as databases

We're a fully remote company, and we've been working that way since founded in 2017.

Frontastic is a Composable Frontend Platform that unites business and development teams to build commerce sites on top of headless. Our mission is to let commerce teams build the incredible. Our customers see higher conversion rates, increased developer productivity, and a faster time to market.

If you want to learn more about our product, watch our product demo video.

1️⃣ Submit your application to our team for review

2️⃣ You'll be invited to take part in a short technical assessment via. Codility

3️⃣ Discovery call (25min) with Kore, our Chief Technology Officer to discuss the role, our culture, and find out if it's a good alignment with your own preferences and skills

4️⃣  Culture questions (via email) to see how you approach important topics such as growth and work planning

5️⃣ First interview (60min) with Toby, our Prinicipal Backend Developer to look deeper into our backend practices

6️⃣ Second interview (60min) with one of our Senior Fullstack Developer or Backend Developers to learn more about what impact you'll have in this role

7️⃣ Stakeholder Lunch (30min) an informal chat with members of the Experience team to get to know who you'll be working with

If you've any questions about the role, email our Talent team at [email protected]. Applications will only be accepted directly through the job application form.

Visit our careers page on our website to find out more about our organization and culture.

If this role isn't for you, but you know of someone who'd be a great fit, we'd really appreciate it if you'd share this role with them!

We're an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We don't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.