Backend Engineer, PHP
This is the employer's own posting, not a copy on a job board.
What we know
Is it still open?
Confirmed still open
Last checked 2d ago — checked against the employer's own applicant tracking system, which is the company answering directly.
We re-read the employer's own applicant tracking system and the posting was still there. That is the company answering directly.
How old is it?
Posted 40d ago
The date the source published, not the day we noticed it (2026-08-31). Last seen at its source 2h ago.
We have tracked this listing since 5 Oct 2026 (5 days). The employer's own board has carried it every time we have read it, most recently 2 hours ago.
Is it remote?
Marked remote on the employer's board
Their board carries a remote setting on this posting — a field they filled in, not wording we read. The location field names somewhere specific, which is usually where the team or the entity sits.
Who may apply?
Europe
The description states no restriction of its own. This is the source's own tag.
Pay not stated
Similar roles pay $133.1k–207.2k/yr
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Skills named in the ad
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Carried by 1 source
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Ashby employer's own board first seen 5d ago · last seen 2h ago
The listing
At Eneba, we’re building the technology and products shaping the future of gaming.
Our core is a global digital gaming marketplace used by 20M+ customers, with 100,000+ digital items and a platform built to operate at massive scale. Behind it is a complex technology ecosystem spanning 100+ microservices, distributed systems, internal platforms, and tooling that helps our teams build and ship faster.
And we’re not stopping at the marketplace. We’re building new products like Snakzy, AI game coaches, and more, exploring new ways for players to discover, buy, and experience games.
We’re proud of how far we’ve come in such a short time - and there’s a lot more to build. Join us as we scale and build the next generation of products for the gaming community.
You’ll join a cross-functional team of 5–10 people spanning design, backend, frontend, mobile, and data, supported by a dedicated platform engineering team. We move fast, experiment often, and build for a growing community of active users.
As an engineer, you’ll do more than ship features - you’ll help shape how the team works and the technology we build. With strong infrastructure, a modern codebase, and hundreds of microservices, you’ll tackle real challenges in scale, performance, reliability, trust, and safety while having the ownership to make a real technical impact.
Code
PHP 8.5+
Symfony 6, 7 and 8
Golang
GraphQL
Temporal
Saga orchestration
Microservices architecture - 100+ services
Custom PHPStan rules
Databases & metrics stores
MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Prometheus, InfluxDB, ElasticSearch
Infrastructure
Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, Terraform with custom-made abstractions
You have 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with hands-on experience building and scaling distributed systems and strong expertise in PHP and Symfony.
You are a quick problem solver who takes ownership
You are genuinely open to feedback
You are familiar with common patterns like CQRS, circuit breaking, and service orchestration
You can effectively contribute to architectural discussions.
You are product-minded and always thinking about the end-user impact
You are genuinely excited to work in a supportive, collaborative environment where we learn, experiment, and continuously improve.
*Opportunity to join our Employee Stock Options program.
*Opportunity to help scale a unique product.
*Various bonus systems: performance-based, referral, additional paid leave, personal learning budget.
*Paid volunteering opportunities.
*Work location of your choice: office, remote, opportunity to work and travel.
*Personal and professional growth at an exponential rate supported by well-defined feedback and promotion processes.
*Please attach CV's in English.
*To find out about how we handle your personal data, make sure to check out our Candidate Privacy Notice https://www.eneba.com/candidate-privacy-notice