Senior Software Engineer (f/d/m) PHP & Payments

Senior Software Engineer (f/d/m) PHP & Payments

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Please note: You can work from our office in Zurich, Berlin, Brussels or completely remotely within the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany or Belgium. The position can be filled on an 80-100% basis.

As Senior Software Engineer (f/d/m) you’ll build and maintain an efficient, secure payment platform, integrating providers like PayPal or Stripe and ensuring reliable real‑time transactions.

Your Mission

• Engineer robust payment platforms with consistent performance for high concurrency and real‑time transaction volumes.
• Ship code in an efficient manner by following common best coding practices like SOLID, KISS, TDD and/or BDD.
• Maintain existing Payment Service Providers to make sure our current payment infrastructure is functioning reliably with no disruptions (includes monitoring and on‑call duty, additionally compensated).
• Provide technical research, estimates, and translate business needs into technical tasks to support product prioritization and delivery.
• Equip dependent teams with necessary knowledge and mentor junior team members on payment topics.
• Incorporate secure design principles into routine engineering.
• Create and maintain internal and external documentation.
• Maintain and improve deployment pipelines, monitoring systems, and incident‑response workflows to support high availability and performance in production environments.

Your Profile

• Proficiency in PHP and Symfony (or similar PHP frameworks).
• Experience with integrating payment service providers (e.g., PayPal, Stripe, etc.).
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and event‑driven microservices (designing, reasoning, troubleshooting).
• Striving for simplicity and, when it’s not possible, keeping an eye on the devil in the details.
• Gathering and translating high‑level requirements into technical specifications.
• Fluency in unit and functional testing as well as code reviews, git workflows and continuous delivery approach.
• Fluent written and verbal English (at least C1).
• You’re a true team player! You see yourself as part of something bigger and support your team members wherever needed.

Our Tech Stack

• PHP 7.4+, Symfony 4+
• MySQL, RabbitMQ, ELK stack
• AWS Fargate, select serverless AWS services (Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB)
• React, Redux, TypeScript, Cypress, Jest, Ant Design

Benefits

• A future‑oriented job in a meaningful environment with an international team.
• Enjoy flexibility around your working time and place: flexible work schedules, annual working time and temporary work abroad options in a remote‑first setup.
• 5 weeks paid annual leave plus additional PTO days per year with RaiseNow and your birthday as PTO.
• We’re part of the 1% pledge, offer sabbatical options and yearly educational leave.
• Your health matters: our partner Instahelp gives you free access to psychological counselling when you’re not feeling well.
• Short decision paths, transparent communication and regular team events; one workation per year to meet all colleagues in one place.
• An innovative working environment with a culture of transparency, trust, and mutual respect.
• Project autonomy and space for personal development from the beginning.

About Us

We're RaiseNow, and we're passionate about making charitable giving more cost‑efficient, donor‑friendly, and successful. Our technology supports organisations such as Save the Children International, WWF, Amnesty, UNICEF, and many others. With our work, we contribute to making the world a better place. In our remote‑first setup we cherish our strong team spirit and believe work can be both meaningful and fun. Our daily work is guided by six team values: freedom, growth, team spirit, purpose, diversity, appreciation, trust, and respect. Through our work we tackle some of the biggest challenges that our planet faces. If you love to learn and thrive in a culture shaped by trust, respect and freedom, join us on our exciting journey! Since your skills and qualifications are what count for us and your appearance does not play a role, we ask you not to send a photo with your application.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social background, religion/belief, disability and age.

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