Mid-level PHP Backend Developer

**Ready to join the fastest-growing tech company in the Netherlands?**

In 2023 we received the prestigious **Oryx Award 2023 by the Dutch Financial Newspaper (FD)**, for the company with the most exceptional growth performance. We were awarded **1st place** by the** Deloitte Fast 50**award in 2019 for growth and innovation, 7th place in 2020. We’ve continued our strong growth during and after Covid times, and have ambitious plans for the future. Now, we are looking for a driven and skilled **Mid-Level PHP Backend Developer** to join our team to further conceptualize and execute our growth ambition.

**About Experiencegift**

Experiencegift is home to Hotelgift, Flightgift, Traingift and Activitygift. Our gift cards can be redeemed for over **750,000 hotels**, **400 airlines**, **50,000 activities** worldwide and **train journeys all across Europe**. We believe in **experiences over things**. Our mission is to enable our customers to spread joy by giving the gift of experiences that can be redeemed whenever, wherever. As we sell in **over 50 countries worldwide**, we’ve built a **diverse team** of over 50 colleagues and more than **15 nationalities**. We have subsidiaries in **Amsterdam, London, Athens, and New York.**

**What makes the role so great?**

**What will you do?**
- Design, build, and maintain** RESTful APIs** and **database structures**
- Write **clean**, **scalable**, and **well-documented code**
- ** Collaborate**with front-end developers, product managers, and other team members
- Ensure **security and data protection best practices**
- Integrate and maintain **third-party services and APIs**
- Maintain version control using **Git**

**What will you bring?**
- ** Residency in Egypt**
- ** 2-5 years**of experience in PHP backend development
- Strong knowledge of PHP (**Laravel**, **Symfony**)
- Experience with **MySQL**, **PostgreSQL**, or** MongoDB**
- Familiarity with **RESTful API development and integration**
- Proficiency in **Git version control**
- Understanding of **OOP**,** MVC architecture**, and **SOLID principles**
- Knowledge of **Linux-based servers** and deployment processes
- Experience with caching (**Redis**, **Memcached**)
- Familiarity with **Docker**, **CI/CD pipelines,**and **cloud services**(**AWS, GCP, or Azure)** is a plus
- Strong **problem-solving**and **debugging skills**
- Good **communication and teamwork**abilities
- ** Fluency in English**

**Nice to have**
- Experience with **Node.js** or **Python**
- Exposure to** Agile methodologies**

**Who are you?**
- ** Passionate & curious**: You love PHP development, and you enjoy learning and experimenting.
- ** Problem-solving**: You are not afraid of challenges, and you are able to utilise the proper means to find solutions.
- ** Collaborative**: Ability to work effectively in a team and independently with mínimal supervision.
- ** Detail-oriented**: You pay attention to the detail, ensuring every design implementation feels just right.

**What can you expect from us?**
- Opportunity for significant and fast impact
- Freedom to come up with new ideas and initiatives
- Lots of learning and development opportunities
- Salary reflective of skills and experience and performance-based bonus potential
- Pension plan
- 20 vacation days
- High-end new laptop
- Hybrid policy
- Awesome annual trip abroad with the entire company
- Flexibility of working from abroad 2 weeks per year
- Young, friendly, ambitious, international team in Amsterdam, Athens and London

This is a full-time job (40H/week) based in Cairo and is available as soon as possible.

At Experiencegift we offer you the opportunity to work in a scale-up culture where everything you do matters. In our office in the center of Amsterdam, you will have the **freedom to experiment and evolve your own projects**. You will be part of an** international, driven, award-winning team** and will gain experience in a very fast-growing scale-up environment. By providing a creative, dynamic, and innovative environment, **we empower our people for unlimited success**.
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Residency in Egypt**
- ** 2-5 years**of experience in PHP backend development
- Strong knowledge of PHP (**Laravel**, **Symfony**)
- Experience with **MySQL**, **PostgreSQL**, or** MongoDB**
- Familiarity with **RESTful API development and integration**
- Proficiency in **Git version control**
- Understanding of **OOP**,** MVC architecture**, and **SOLID principles**
- Knowledge of **Linux-based servers** and deployment processes
- Experience with caching (**Redis**, **Memcached**)
- Familiarity with **Docker**, **CI/CD pipelines,**and **cloud services**(**AWS, GCP, or Azure)** is a plus
- Strong **problem-solving**and **debugging skills**
- Good **communication and teamwork**abilities
- ** Fluency in English**

**_ No agencies please, we manage our recruitment processes internally._