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You identify problems, suggest improvements, and take initiative.\nIndependent: You can organize your work, make sound technical decisions, and take responsibility for results.\nTeam-oriented: You share knowledge, support colleagues, and value team success over individual achievements.\nA strong communicator: You explain your ideas clearly, discuss different approaches, give and accept constructive feedback, and raise concerns early.\nReliable: You follow through on commitments and care about delivering quality work.\nYou should be comfortable discussing technical matters in Russian and communicating in English.\nNice to have\nExperience with high-load systems and performance optimization.\nKnowledge of message queues and asynchronous processing.\nExperience optimizing SQL queries and working with large databases.\nExperience with automated testing, particularly Codeception or PHPUnit.\nExperience with Redis, Docker, or high-availability systems.\nYou don't need to know everything on this list. 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What matters most to us is your ability to solve problems, take ownership of your work, and communicate well with others.You'll work on a live SaaS product, develop new features, improve existing systems, and help keep our platform fast and reliable.What you'll work onDevelop and maintain backend features, REST APIs, and third-party integrations.\nImprove existing PHP/Symfony code to make it easier to maintain and extend.\nInvestigate performance issues and optimize database queries.\nBuild and improve background jobs, message processing, and error handling.\nWrite clean, testable code and participate in code reviews.\nWork closely with other engineers, QA, DevOps, and product managers to deliver reliable solutions.\nOur tech stackBackend: PHP 8.4, Symfony 8.1\nDatabase: PostgreSQL 16\nCaching: Redis\nMessage queues: Beanstalk\nTesting: Codeception, PHPUnit\nOther technologies: Docker, OpenAPI, Node.js, MongoDB, Java, Asterisk\nYour main focus will be PHP and Symfony. 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