Backend Developer (PHP)

**Backend Developer (PHP)** **Location**: world** Employment Type: **full-time, remote **Salary:** up to 4000$ gross **Firebird** is an international online travel company that organizes trips to Europe for customers from around the world. We have a dedicated software development department that focuses on our products that allow everyone else to deliver some of the top-notch, worldwide services. Currently, there are a number of commercially available projects in production that are being actively worked on: - Service for booking rail tickets - Online trip builder - Service for booking hotels **Tech stack ** PHP/Symfony, Maria-DB, Docker. Our product team is growing, and we’re looking for an experienced **PHP Backend Developer**. **Your tasks will include** - Designing and creating the project architecture. - Back-end development. - Analysis of business requirements and design of their implementation based on existing and new systems. - Modification, implementation and creation of custom modules and components. - Integration with external services (Payment systems, Salesforce, GDS services, etc.). - Conducting code reviews. - Work with version control systems. - Work in Jira, Confluence. **Candidate requirements** - 3+ years of backend development experience. - Strong communication skills. - Strong knowledge of PHP (>8.0), code refactoring, coding standards. - Experience with at least one of the popular PHP frameworks. - Knowledge and practical application of OOP principles. - Understanding how web servers work, working in Nginx + php-fpm bundles. - Experience with coding with AI-agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) - Ability to work with the Linux console. - Experience with version control systems (Git). ** We offer** - Competitive compensation based on interview results. - Opportunity to build a stellar career in a fast-growing international -travel company. - Opportunity to work with advanced top-of-the-line software for travel management. - Interesting, challenging tasks and a world-class team.