Symfony Developer

Join us at Packagist Conductors, the company behind Composer, the package manager which revolutionized PHP development.

You can either work from our office in Berlin or remotely in any timezone with up to 2 hours difference from Berlin. Unfortunately we cannot sponsor new visas. We welcome both part-time and full-time applications.

The job will consist of:

* tackling the problems other developers face on a daily basis and providing tools to make their jobs easier
* maintaining, building features for, and improving functionality and performance of Private Packagist
* supporting our customers through e-mail and Intercom chat, a requirement for every engineer at Packagist Conductors
* getting outside your (technical) comfort zone: helping with frontend work, infrastructure projects or even with sales questions
* contributing to open-source when useful or necessary for Private Packagist
* mentoring junior engineers as they join our team

What we ask you:

* have significant experience as a Software Engineer
* have experience with PHP and Composer
* are motivated, independent, and self-organized
* are able to learn about new technologies without close guidance
* enjoy analyzing complex systems and debugging complex customer problems
* are strong in written communication and speak and write English fluently
* have patience with and empathy for customers
* have worked with relational databases, e.g. PostgreSQL or MySQL
* are used to working on a shell on Linux

We'll consider it a bonus if you:

* have experience working remotely
* have worked with queueing systems, e.g. RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka
* have worked with third-party APIs, e.g. REST, GraphQL, XMLrpc
* have worked with Symfony
* have JavaScript or TypeScript experience for frontend work
* are familiar with Linux fundamentals (signals, filesystems, system calls, performance and basic system operation concepts)
* have worked with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or Salt

We offer:

* pay in the top 25% of salaries for your role and experience in other small businesses in Berlin, between €85,000 and €100,000
* 30 days vacation
* flexible working hours
* optionally working remotely in any timezone within 2 hours difference from Berlin
* working on challenging projects for a wide variety of customers
* lots of influence and autonomy: We expect you to provide ideas, take ownership of projects and see them through in every aspect.
* a personal development/education budget for conferences, books, workshops, video classes