Mid Back-end PHP Developer

Who We Are

Recruitment.bg is a boutique IT recruitment company, based in Bulgaria. We aim to work with the top employers in the industry, companies that we thoroughly vet and trust. Our mission is to guide IT professionals toward improved career paths by understanding their skills, crafting employment strategies, and supporting them every step of the way. Placing emphasis on honesty, respect and reliability while delivering exceptional service by ‘going the extra mile’ we build long term relationships with the people and organizations we work with.

Role Overview

We are looking for a motivated Back-end PHP Developer with at least 2 years of hands-on experience to join a compact engineering team in the online gaming domain. You will work on building reliable backend features, improving system stability, and contributing to a collaborative, knowledge-sharing environment.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain backend modules using PHP

Build and support RESTful APIs

Work with relational databases such as MySQL/PostgreSQL

Diagnose and resolve backend issues across different environments

Improve system performance, scalability, and security

Collaborate with frontend engineers and product specialists

Requirements

2+ years of experience with PHP

Solid understanding of MySQL or PostgreSQL

Exposure to unit and integration testing

Basic knowledge of performance optimization

Good English communication skills

Proactive and detail-oriented mindset

Nice to Have

Symfony experience

Familiarity with asynchronous/messaging systems

Interest in statistics or data engineering

All applications will be treated as strictly confidential.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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