Backend Developer

At InterNations, we’re dedicated to making life easier for expats! With about 1.9 million members in 390 cities around the world, InterNations is the largest global network and information site for people who live and work abroad. What started as just an idea is now changing the lives of expats and global minds around the world each and every day. With an international team who’ve often lived abroad themselves, we understand what our members need most and we all work towards a shared goal. Together, we’re constantly growing and learning, coming up with new ways for our members to feel more at home and connect with other international people in their communities.

About the role

Location: Munich, Germany

Our engineering teams architect, develop and test our social network. As a Backend Developer, you will be responsible for building out the backend of our social network. You will be assuring its quality and running it in a production environment in an interdisciplinary team of different specialists.

As a Backend Developer at InterNations, you will:

• develop the backend of our social network as part of the Engineering Team
• invest in quality: tracking time for unit, integration and acceptance testing for both frontend and backend is a given
• carry out short iterations in an agile environment with as many releases as possible
• need to be able to handle a lot of traffic and a lot of concurrent A/B tests
• are invested in LAMP but complement the stack wherever needed
• will sooner or later have to read the HTTP standard
• take Open Source seriously: http://internations.github.io/

You fulfill the following requirements:

• you are very familiar with the LAMP stack and speak PHP in an object-oriented dialect – perhaps you have tried (and liked) a functional programming language
• you are familiar with modern PHP frameworks like Symfony 2, Zend Framework 2 or Laravel
• you like working with huge datasets, be it in a relational database (MySQL), a search service (Solr) or a key-value store (Redis)
• you are interested in distributed applications and scalability
• you want to learn new things: technology, practices, and user interactions

We offer:

• top notch MacBook, 27” display, keyboard layout of choice
• a fast-growing, dynamic company with international scope
• a friendly work atmosphere and the space you need to pursue your own ideas
• weekly team breakfasts, fresh fruit & regular team events
• a central location in a wonderful cosmopolitan city with beautiful natural surroundings
• support with visa and work permit application