Join our team and build the future of fleet management solutions!
Are you passionate about developing scalable, high-performance solutions? Do you thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment where innovation and technical excellence drive impact? If so, we’d love to have you on board as a Senior PHP Developer in our Platform Engagement Team.
The team & projects
The Platform Engagement Team is at the core of our fleet management platform, responsible for delivering intuitive, data-driven solutions that empower our users. Our suite of solutions includes:
🚗 Real-time vehicle tracking – interactive online map for monitoring fleet activity
🚛 Fleet data management – handling fleet asset management, vehicle profiles, driver management, and more
🔑 User identity & access management – authentication, permissions, and user settings
📊 Dashboards & reporting – actionable insights through customizable dashboards & developing core reporting solutions to be used by other teams
📲 Self-service onboarding – seamless integration and user activation, automating various processes & steps
As a Senior PHP Developer, you’ll play a pivotal role in designing and developing scalable solutions that improve user engagement, enhance system reliability, and drive business impact.
Key responsibilities
- Architect and develop modern backend solutions suitable for a high-performance fleet management platform
- Take a pragmatic and adaptable approach to solution development, balancing delivery speed with quality while optimizing the approach based on the company’s current needs
- Ensure scalability & maintainability of existing and new systems, optimizing performance and reliability, creating and updating technical documentation
- Drive technical excellence by applying best coding practices, conducting thorough code reviews, and mentoring team members
- Collaborate across teams – work closely with product managers, frontend developers, QA engineers, and designers to deliver high-quality features
- Improve system architecture by identifying bottlenecks, reducing technical debt, and implementing performance optimizations
- Develop and maintain APIs (RESTful and event-driven) for seamless data exchange between internal and external systems
- Enhance system security by implementing best practices for authentication, authorization, and data protection
- Actively contribute to the team’s technical strategy, roadmap, and overall backend ecosystem
What we expect from you
- 5+ years of experience in backend development with PHP (8.2+)
- Experience writing unit and integration tests in PHP (using PHPUnit or Pest); familiarity with end-to-end (E2E) test automation is a plus
- Strong understanding of SQL databases and query optimization ; experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., columnar or time-series databases) is a plus
- Experience with caching strategies and technologies (e.g., Redis, Memcached) for optimizing performance and scalability
- Experience with search engine solutions (e.g., ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, Solr) for indexing, querying, and logging
- Experience with Docker for containerization, development, and deployment in various environments
- Experience working with job queues, cron jobs, and background processing
- Strong grasp of software design patterns, clean code principles, and best development practices
- Experience with Git for version control in collaborative development environments
- Understanding of system monitoring & logging (Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry)
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement, including adopting GenAI tools to enhance individual productivity while maintaining quality and security standards
- Experience with IoT systems, real-time applications, microservice architecture, and handling large-scale data processing is a plus; familiarity with scalability challenges and performance optimization is highly valued
Our tech stack & work process
Backend: PHP 8.2, MariaDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, OpenSwoole, Docker, REST api
Frontend: React, TypeScript, HTML/CSS
DevOps & Infrastructure: GitLab, Grafana & Prometheus, Sentry, Zabbix, CodeScene, SolarWinds DPM
Work process: Agile (scrum), 2-week sprints, roadmap planning, OKRs for goal-setting
Development team structure:
👨💻 Product Owner – defines the “what” and “why”
🧑🔬 Tech Lead – responsible for “how” and “who”
👥 2-3 Backend Developers
🎨 2-3 Frontend Developers
🛠 1-2 QA Engineers
Teams collaborate closely with designers, but they are not directly assigned to the team.
What We Offer:
- Being part of an international team of 200+ colleagues that you can work together on exciting tasks, learn from, have fun workdays with and spend great time in our social events;
- Salary starting from 3500 EUR before taxes (compensation depends on knowledge and experience)
- Paid lunches and fruit in the office;
- Personalized employee benefits after the probation period, from which you can choose the most suitable for you (health insurance (including mental health support, dental care, and massage courses), additional sports program or employer contributions to your 3rd pension pillar);
- Additional paid holidays, including your birthday;
- An annual learning budget for enhancing your skills and knowledge from seminars to book purchases;
- Free parking at the office;
- Flexible working hours the possibility to start your workday anytime before 11:00;
- Shorter working hours on Fridays during the summer period;
- Additional paid leave for various life events, including paid study leave;
- The opportunity to work outside Latvia for up to 90 days a year;
- The option to work remotely or in our cozy office;
- A dedicated budget for team-building events;
- Paid participation in major sports events such as Stirnu Buks and the Riga Marathon;
- Interest groups and activities within the Draugiem Group community.
Ready to join our team? Send your CV, and let's build the future of fleet management together!
*We provide detailed feedback on interview performance and/or the technical task only to candidates who have reached the final stage of the selection process.
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