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Senior Software Engineer – PHP Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company Name<\/strong><\/td>\nCreditstar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Job Role<\/strong><\/td>\nSenior Software Engineer – PHP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Qualifications<\/strong><\/td>\nNot specified<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Category<\/strong><\/td>\nI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Job Type<\/strong><\/td>\nFull Time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location<\/strong><\/td>\nLondon, United Kingdom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Pay & benefits<\/h2>\n

What you'll get<\/h3>\n
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  • Ownership from day one. You’ll shape the technical direction of the platform, not just execute tickets. We trust our engineers to drive decisions.<\/li>\n
  • A team that values craft. We allocate dedicated capacity to technical debt, run regular architecture discussions, and take engineering quality seriously – not just velocity.<\/li>\n
  • Design and evolve scalable backend architecture and core platform services<\/li>\n
  • Lead technical initiatives from solution design and estimation through production release<\/li>\n
  • Develop new functionality, improve existing systems, and reduce technical debt<\/li>\n
  • Ensure system scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability<\/li>\n
  • Optimize databases, APIs, caching layers, and background processing<\/li>\n
  • Identify and resolve production incidents, bottlenecks, and technical risks<\/li>\n
  • Participate in architectural decision-making and long-term platform evolution<\/li>\n
  • Conduct code reviews and maintain engineering quality standards<\/li>\n
  • Mentor developers, support onboarding, and provide technical leadership within the team<\/li>\n
  • Collaborate with Product, Growth leads, QA, and other engineering teams<\/li>\n
  • Dynamic, challenging, and rewarding work within a rapidly growing international company;<\/li>\n
  • Chance to contribute to the business’ decision-making processes and making a tangible impact;<\/li>\n
  • Working with a talented and fun international team.<\/li>\n
  • Sports or Health insurance compensation<\/li>\n
  • Paid birthday day- off<\/li>\n
  • Regular company parties and events;<\/li>\n
  • Powerful equipment and modern tools;<\/li>\n
  • On-demand sponsorship for your professional development;<\/li>\n
  • Competitive remuneration package.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The role<\/h2>\n

    Creditstar Group<\/strong> is a rapidly growing international consumer finance company, headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia and operating in multiple European markets.<\/p>\n

    At the core, we are a financial technology company that uses automated processes, algorithms and data analysis to make financial instruments easily available to a population of more than 175 million people in our target markets. We are a team of ambitious professionals who value innovation, effective efficiency, high growth, and high performance. For more information on the group, please <\/p>\n

    Our vision is to build and deliver digital banking products of the future. If you want to be part of this, here is your chance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Technical<\/h3>\n
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    • 5-7+ years of commercial PHP development experience<\/li>\n
    • Strong knowledge of modern PHP (8.0+) and backend engineering best practices<\/li>\n
    • Solid hands-on experience with Yii2 or willing to learn<\/li>\n
    • Experience with frontend development(Typescript, React)<\/li>\n
    • Experience designing scalable backend systems with a strong grasp of software architecture and system design principles<\/li>\n
    • Strong PostgreSQL experience: schema design, indexing, query optimization, performance tuning<\/li>\n
    • Experience designing APIs and service integrations<\/li>\n
    • Solid Git workflows, code review practices, and CI\/CD experience<\/li>\n
    • Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Leadership & Ownership<\/h3>\n
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      • Proven experience leading major technical initiatives<\/li>\n
      • Ability to independently drive projects from design to production<\/li>\n
      • Experience working with large legacy codebases and driving incremental modernisation without disrupting business operations<\/li>\n
      • Strong estimation, planning, prioritisation, and risk management skills<\/li>\n
      • Experience mentoring engineers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Soft skills<\/h3>\n
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        • Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset<\/li>\n
        • Effective communication and collaboration in cross-functional teams<\/li>\n
        • High autonomy, accountability, and product ownership<\/li>\n
        • Product-oriented thinking with a focus on business impact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Nice to have<\/p>\n

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          • Experience in fintech<\/li>\n
          • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
            \n

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