Senior PHP Developer

About Manychat

Manychat is a leading Chat Marketing platform. We help businesses engage with their customers on Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Telegram.

More than one million companies choose Manychat to power their business-to-customer conversations, from small businesses to leading global brands. No matter the use case — generating leads, increasing engagement, providing 24/7 customer support, accepting payments, and beyond — Manychat helps businesses grow their ROI and revenue.

Our mission is to help businesses grow by building meaningful relationships with their customers.

History

Manychat was founded in 2016 and currently has 120+ team members in three global offices — the R&D team is located in Yerevan and Barcelona, and marketing is based in New York.

Manychat is a Meta Official Business Partner, backed by top investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners.

Tech stack
Our web application is built with TypeScript / JavaScript, React, and Redux. We use Jest for unit tests, and Playwright for UI tests.

Our backend tech stack is the following: PHP 8.1, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, NGINX + Lua, AWS. We use AWS to deploy the infrastructure and arrange asynchronous queues. It processes billions of internal events.

Approaches
We prioritize both technology and user experience to deliver value to customers, striving to provide simple and reliable solutions. We constantly experiment and test hypotheses on a prototype (minimum viable product, or MVP).

Processes
We work in cross-functional teams within two-week sprints. We use the LeSS framework (Large Scale Scrum) to be agile, flexible, and adaptive.

Position

We are seeking a Senior PHP Developer to impact our current objectives, who’ll be responsible for a product component (architecture and data communication protocol). You will be working alongside a team of talented individuals to create innovative solutions that empower businesses to engage with their customers in new ways.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Here are some of our current objectives:

• Live Chat: launching a specific area, we are committed to improving our mobile application and Live Chat functionality, enabling real-time and efficient customer support, and empowering businesses to deliver exceptional experiences
• WhatsApp: with a core emphasis on stability, we aim to enhance the functionality of our WhatsApp channel, ensuring seamless messaging experiences, and expanding capabilities for businesses and users alike
• Instagram: our focus is to enhance the product metrics of our Instagram channel, driving growth and engagement through strategic optimizations and user-centered improvements
• Flow Builder: our goal is to elevate user experiences by improving the Flow Builder — our visual editor, streamlining the creation of dynamic chatbot flows, and enhancing the internal processing to enable smoother, more efficient interactions
• Developer/Professional Tools: we are actively developing tools and resources for developers who utilize Manychat, fostering a thriving ecosystem. By providing comprehensive support and enhancing our DevProgram, we empower developers to create innovative solutions and integrations with our platform

Your qualification

• 5+ years experience working in a product team as a PHP developer (we use PHP 8)
• Ability to use relational databases (we use PostgreSQL)
• Experience in writing testable code and test cases
• Ability and desire to work in a product team
• Capability to take ownership and lead long-term projects
• Adaptivity to change and comfort in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills, strong ability to collaborate, and proactive approach
• Problem-solving mindset

Will be a plus

• Experience working with loaded projects and queue systems
• Skills working with infrastructure
• Experience working with third-party API
• Knowledge of different NoSQL solutions and analytical systems
• Replication, partioning, sharding, PL/pgSQL, and other attributes of profound work with databases

What we offer

We care about your growth, well-being, and comfort

• Relocation support through airplane tickets, accommodations for up to three weeks, and a relocation bonus
• Professional development budget for relevant conference tickets, training programs, or courses
• Flexible benefits plan to choose the perks that fit your needs
• Health insurance including dentistry, psychology sessions, nutrition consultations, surgery, and travel assistance
• Hybrid work format to choose between home and office

Approximate annual salary, depends on the candidates levels: 65 000 - 75 000 EUR gross.