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With WhiteTech, clients gain access to a platform designed for flexibility, scalability, and seamless integration.\nOur mission is to help businesses unlock their full potential in a rapidly evolving financial landscape.\nWhether scaling your PSP, enhancing your EMI services, or diving into open banking, WhiteTech is your partner for innovation and growth.\nWe are a remote-first technology company and welcome applications from candidates across Europe, including the EEA, the UK, Switzerland, and other non-EEA European countries such as Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Montenegro, Turkey, and the Western Balkans. We also consider applicants from different locations who can work within Central European Time (CET).\nYour role and impact:\nIn your role at WhiteTech, you'll be at the heart of our mission to revolutionize payments worldwide. Your expertise will be critical in analysing data, processes, and code to identify, resolve or prevent issues and drive product improvements. 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Ability to design a domain model for complex business problems and use it to solve real problems. Understanding the importance of application context and developing Bounded Contexts to separate domain models.\nAdvanced understanding of CQRS principles and benefits, including asynchronous command processing, data synchronization between read and write models. Experience using design patterns and architectural patterns to implement an effective CQRS-based architecture.\nAdvanced knowledge of professional architecture design practices. Experience designing and developing complex, large systems using architectural templates and patterns. Ability to define and document architectural solutions and solve problems related to system complexity and scalability.\nAdvanced knowledge of PHP integration test automation tools and libraries such as PHPUnit, Codeception, Behat. 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