Backend Engineer, PHP

About Eneba

At Eneba, we’re building an open, safe and sustainable marketplace for the gamers of today and tomorrow. Our marketplace supports close to 20m+ active users (and growing fast!), provides a level of trust, safety and market accessibility unparalleled to none. We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished in such a short time and look forward to sharing this journey with you. Join us as we continue to scale, diversify our portfolio, and grow with the evolving community of gamers.

About your team

We are a cross-functional team of 5-10 people with designers, backend, frontend, mobile, and data engineers. They are supported by a platform engineering team. We move fast, experiment, learn a lot, and build new products for our growing base of 20+ million active users.

About the tech

This is an overview of the tech stack we are using. You are not expected to know all of it now. But you are expected to be learning how to use most of these in your first 3 months.

Code

• PHP/Symfony - primary language for coding.

• Golang - secondary language. Used primarily where speed/efficiency is required.

• GraphQL - the main method of communication. Applies both to service-to-service and frontend-service communication.

• CI/CD with 50+ deployments per day.

• CQRS, commands via saga/temporal, queries via GraphQL.

• Microservices architecture (over 100).

• Service orchestration with Saga / temporal.io

Databases

• Influxdb

• Prometheus

• Redis

• ElasticSearch

• Mariadb

• Mysql

Infrastructure

• Kubernetes

• Helm

• AWS

• Terraform

Requirements

• You have 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with hands-on experience building and scaling distributed systems and strong expertise in PHP and Symfony.

• You are a quick problem solver who takes ownership

• You are genuinely open to feedback

• You are familiar with common patterns like CQRS, circuit breaking, and service orchestration

• You can effectively contribute to architectural discussions.

• You are product-minded and always thinking about the end-user impact

• You are genuinely excited to work in a supportive, collaborative environment where we learn, experiment, and continuously improve.

Bonus points if you've worked with Golang, or GraphQL API design at scale.

What it’s like to work at Eneba

*Opportunity to join our Employee Stock Options program.

*Opportunity to help scale a unique product.

*Various bonus systems: performance-based, referral, additional paid leave, personal learning budget.

*Paid volunteering opportunities.

*Work location of your choice: office, remote, opportunity to work and travel.

*Personal and professional growth at an exponential rate supported by well-defined feedback and promotion processes.

*Please attach CV's in English.

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