Backend Engineer

About fotograf.de / GotPhoto

fotograf.de / GotPhoto is the world’s leading software for the digitalization of school and high-volume photography.

Our international team is working every day to make the lives of our photographers easier and more efficient - so they spend less time behind the desk and more time behind the lens.

We have built a life-changing online solution for volume photographers. At the heart of our success is a talented, multifaceted team that helps school photographers all around the world achieve their goals.

We are the current market leader in Europe for the online sale of photo products and hold a market share in 15 different countries worldwide, which enables us to experience rapid growth every year.

Position

You are a Senior PHP developer looking to join a well established, growing business that helps their customers fix their most complex business challenges with beautifully engineered solutions.

As a Senior you bring experience from several large scale engineering organizations, ideally product-based SaaS companies. At GotPhoto you will leverage your experience to architect solutions and mentor and coach those around you. Help us build an engineering organisation that cares about their customers and loves to learn and collaborate together.

• PHP 7, REST or GraphQL, MySQL, AWS, Docker, Terraform, GitLab
• Remote First, collaborative customer-focused team that deploy code every day
• €65 - 75k Salary

We are a team of 12 Engineers (on our way to 20 by the end of the year). Most of our team is based in Berlin but this role is a fully remote position based in Europe, ideally, you are within a 2 hour time difference of Berlin because we want you to have a good balance between work and your personal life.

If you enjoy going to an office then we would love to help you relocate to Berlin, just ask our recruiting team about it when you speak to them.

We love to collaborate, you will find us regularly sharing tips and tricks during our brown bag lunches, organizing hackathons and pair coding to solve our most complex problems. We follow Agile development and have synchronous and asynchronous communication. If you would like to meet some of our team check us out here https://www.fotograf.de/team/

Your Role

You will join a product first organization that is currently moving from 2 to 4 product squads. The platform is mainly developed in PHP with the frameworks CakePHP & Laravel. The teams are currently working on moving the solution into a service based architecture using TypeScript, NodeJS and other technologies (you may help them choose)

The GotPhoto SaaS platform helps school photographers streamline their workflow and ensure that they can easily manage large photoshoots and print amazing products their customers want. GotPhoto is a profitable startup that has been around since 2010 their culture is one of a positive business model, with the mindset “we create winners”. Photographers, parents, schools, and labs are better off when using their software.

You will work on:

• Designing, coding, deploying and monitoring usage of features our clients love (current client NPS is 68)
• Ensuring we all write great code and learn together; we do peer code reviews, lots of pair coding, hackathons and internal tech talks as well as support your growth with a learning and conference budget
• Highly versatile system in order to support complex photographer workflows, taking pictures of thousands of school kids is a complex challenge
• Service-oriented architecture
• Customer first culture (yes even as a Dev, we hope you care about our customers too)
• Large Scale Systems Handling >1 million orders per year with highly sensitive data and information
• Only system on the market with support for all major sales methods of photographers (prepay, proofing, online, offline)

Our stack:

We take a pragmatic approach to building products and systems that work for our customers. Our core application is a modular CakePHP monolith - not as monolithic as you may have seen before. As we have scaled in terms of features and functionality we have built microservices in PHP, NodeJS, Python and React.

We use AWS-Cloud using MySQL, Docker, SQS, SNS, SES, PhpUnit, NewRelic, Graylog. QA has a Cypress Stack for end-to-end testing. In the Platform team we make use of Amazon Lamdba for image processing to keep the scale very flexible. Payments are handled and abstracted by the finance team in their a own distributed service.

Since our business has complex use cases, we keep the cognitive load for our Devs as low as possible so they focus on solving problems rather than configuring tech.

• We use Dockerized Environments to be able to run any part of the system on any system
• We use AWS to scale our architecture to our customers due to seasonality which made us build the system in a way that it can scale up and down
• We have a scalable image processing system based on serverless AWS Lambda
• We use GitLab for our CICD Pipelines We value that any developer is enabled to do deployments into the live system with a click of a button

Your qualification

You are a product orientated engineer who cares about your customers and team. You write SOLID code pragmatically using software design patterns. You think things should be maintainable and easy to use and have a pragmatic engineering approach "shortcuts" easy to delete in a crunch

• You know what to test, why to test it, and how to write meaningful tests
• You have a proactive attitude and a product mindset − you own what you build
• Strong knowledge of PHP7 as you will be working with that primarily
• Team player, proactive and result-driven

What we offer

• Be part of an international team with an established brand in Europe and strong growth in the USA
  • Everyone has the same opportunities to grow and learn
  • You have 1: 1 with your team leader and development meetings every six months
  • You have access to a learning budget of at least 500€ for training and coaching
• Flexible working hours and unlimited holiday leave
• Connect - inside and outside of work through regular team events, knowledge sharing and team holidays
• Subsidised fitness membership with Urban Sports in the EU and Classpass in the US