This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Backend Engineer, PHP based in Spain.Join a high-scale engineering environment where you’ll build and evolve backend systems powering a general digital gaming marketplace and a growing portfolio of new products. You’ll work within a cross-functional team alongside backend, frontend, mobile, design, and data specialists. The role offers the opportunity to solve complex challenges across distributed systems, performance, reliability, trust, and safety. You’ll contribute to a modern microservices ecosystem spanning more than 100 services. Beyond delivering features, you’ll influence technical decisions, architectural direction, and engineering practices. With strong infrastructure and significant ownership, your work will have a direct impact on products used by millions of customers.AccountabilitiesDesign, build, scale,



and maintain reliable backend services using PHP and Symfony within a large microservices architecture.Develop and deliver product features while considering scalability, performance, reliability, and the overall user experience.Contribute to architectural discussions and help shape technical solutions for complex distributed-system challenges.Work with technologies including GraphQL, Golang, Temporal, Saga orchestration, and established service design patterns.Collaborate closely with frontend, mobile, design, data, and platform engineering teams to deliver high-quality products.Help improve engineering practices, code quality, observability, and system resilience across the technology ecosystem.Take ownership of technical problems from investigation through implementation and continuously look for opportunities to improve how the team works.Requirements8+ years of professional backend engineering experience, including hands-on work building and scaling distributed systems.Strong expertise in PHP and Symfony, with experience

📌 Backend Engineer, PHP (España)
🏢 Lever
📍 España