Software Architect (PHP/Symfony)

Accountabilities

• Define, evolve, and maintain the architecture of mission-critical financial technology products and services.


• Establish architectural standards, engineering principles, and development best practices to ensure consistency across teams.


• Lead architecture reviews and validate technical designs, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.


• Design and optimize highly available, fault-tolerant, and distributed systems capable of supporting significant transaction volumes.


• Drive domain modeling, system decomposition, service boundaries, and communication strategies across complex platforms.


• Collaborate with Technical Leads and engineering teams to address architectural challenges and support strategic technical initiatives.


• Design and oversee integrations with external platforms, banking systems, compliance services, and third-party providers.


• Identify technical risks, scalability constraints, and system bottlenecks while implementing effective mitigation strategies.


• Support platform modernization efforts, architectural refactoring initiatives, and technical debt reduction programs.


• Translate business requirements into sustainable technical solutions through close collaboration with product and business stakeholders.


• Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders, promoting architectural excellence and engineering best practices across the organization.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of backend software development experience in complex, production-grade environments.


• Strong commercial expertise in PHP and Symfony framework development.


• Previous experience in architecture-focused roles such as Software Architect, Solution Architect, System Architect, Principal Engineer, or Lead Backend Engineer with significant architecture ownership.


• Proven experience within fintech, payments, banking, electronic money institutions (EMI), payment service providers (PSP), open banking, or similar regulated industries.


• Deep understanding of object-oriented programming principles, SOLID, GRASP, and software design patterns.


• Extensive experience designing and operating high-load, distributed, and scalable systems.


• Strong knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and modern architectural approaches.


• Hands-on experience with Event-Driven Architecture, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and microservices design patterns.


• Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL, database architecture, performance optimization, and data modeling.


• Experience with Redis, messaging systems, caching strategies, asynchronous processing, and service communication patterns.


• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, cloud-native architectures, monitoring, observability, and performance analysis tools.


• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.


• Ability to balance technical quality, scalability, and security with business objectives and delivery timelines.


• Experience processing large-scale transaction volumes, leading platform modernization efforts, and mentoring senior technical professionals is considered an advantage.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package based on experience and expertise.


• Fully remote work environment with flexibility to work from your preferred location within compatible time zones.


• Flexible working hours that support work-life balance and autonomy.


• 19 business days of flexible paid time off annually.


• Opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge fintech products and large-scale payment solutions.


• Supportive, values-driven culture with a collaborative and inclusive work environment.


• Access to conferences, industry events, and professional communities as both a participant and contributor.


• Ongoing learning and development opportunities within a highly technical environment.


• Modern organizational structure designed to encourage collaboration, transparency, and efficient decision-making.


• Opportunity to influence platform strategy and make a tangible impact on the future of financial technology.

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