Senior Back-end Developer

About us :

Rated as one of the top startups in Switzerland and Europe, Goodwall is a social media network for high school students to tell their story to other like minded students, connect with universities, access exclusive opportunities and win awards and scholarships. We are helping students find their passion and maximize their potential easier than ever before.

We have an active and growing community of more than 600,000 members from 150+ countries, we work with universities and companies around the world and are well financed by seasoned, educational and technology investors.

We are a dynamic and growing multicultural team made of 20 passionate and talented people with a large variety of skills covering the goals we set ourselves to achieve. We are continuously looking for creative, smart and skilled people to join us and help make Goodwall a great place and product. Our team focuses on using the latest technologies and tools available in order to offer the best and most exciting experience to our users. Regarding remuneration, we offer an industry competitive salary.

What you will do :

Develop highly scalable applications written in PHP
Implement new features, optimize existing ones
Collaborate with developers and other teams to turn ideas into working products
Work using tests, pull requests, code reviews and continuous integration to ensure a high level of quality in your code
Be a part of a highly motivated team of code lovers, always seeking to improve themselves

What we expect :

3 years of experience with object oriented PHP frameworks or similar back-end technologies and SQL databases
Mastery of object oriented programming and design patterns
Good knowledge of MySQL and queries optimization in a high traffic context
Deep understanding of the modern web protocols, stacks and architectures
Excellent attention to details and knowledge of coding/application design best practices
Excellent ability to communicate with diverse groups of users and developers
Motivated to go beyond your limits and overachieve a task

What we’d like :

Experience with NoSql databases, especially Redis
Experience with Phalcon PHP framework
Experience with back-end unit testing
Experience with Git or similar versioning systems
Knowledge of Front-End development (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and mobile frameworks)


Location: We have offices in Geneva and Serbia but would be ok with remote work as well.
Starting Date: as soon as possible