Software Engineer (PHP)

About the Position

Software Engineer (PHP)

NFQ is a core technology partner for HomeToGo, a leading marketplace for vacation rentals. We are expanding our technology teams in Lithuania and Poland and are looking for talented individuals to join our team.

HomeToGo is a SaaS-enabled marketplace with the world's largest selection of vacation rentals, listing millions of offers from trusted partners like Booking.com, Vrbo, and TripAdvisor. Our platform operates in more than 30 countries across Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and Asia-Pacific.

As a Software Engineer (PHP), you will be part of the team behind HomeToGo's revenue platform, which is central to the company's financial operations. You will work with rich domain logic, enterprise integrations, and the engineering discipline that keeps a critical platform reliable, observable, and easy to evolve.

Responsibilities

• Implement and evolve the rules that determine what the company earns and what it owes its partners, based on requirements from business stakeholders.
• Build and maintain the API- and event-based integrations that keep the platform consistent with Salesforce, SAP, payment systems, and booking providers.
• Extend the platform with LLM-based tooling, from MCP servers that expose its data safely to business teams and AI agents, to agent workflows that automate operational work.
• Deliver trustworthy data to Finance and Business Intelligence, from the exports that feed the data warehouse to the alerting and quality checks around them.
• Replace manual financial workflows with automated, tested processes, in collaboration with the teams who run them today.
• Keep the platform reliable and observable, using Grafana, Prometheus, and Kibana to monitor it in production, respond to incidents, find root causes, and turn recurring problems into lasting fixes.
• Work across a set of applications written in modern PHP on Symfony 7 and 8, backed by MySQL, Redis, and RabbitMQ, deployed on Kubernetes alongside AWS managed services.
• Take part in the platform's technical evolution, including completing its move to Kubernetes, regular framework and dependency upgrades, and the retirement of legacy components.
• Take ownership of your features from refinement to production, and take an active part in code review, planning, and retrospectives.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional backend development, in PHP and Symfony or in another object-oriented language with the willingness to make PHP your main one.
• Solid knowledge of relational databases: schema design, transactions, indexes, and the ability to reason about a query plan.
• Practical experience with LLM-based tools, both as a user in your daily engineering work and as a builder: MCP servers, agent frameworks such as Google ADK, or comparable projects of your own.
• A habit of writing tests as part of your normal workflow, and a serious attitude to static analysis and code review.
• Willingness to work directly with business stakeholders and to invest time in understanding their processes as thoroughly as the code that supports them.
• The ability to explain technical decisions to people outside engineering, and to ask precise questions when a requirement is unclear.
• Continuous learning as a habit, whether that means a new tool, a new part of the business, or a better way of working the team has agreed on.
• Working English, spoken and written. The team works daily with colleagues across Europe and beyond.

Nice to Have

• Experience building and consuming APIs, and some exposure to asynchronous or message-based processing with RabbitMQ, Kinesis, SQS, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS managed services.
• Familiarity with Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, or a comparable monitoring stack.

We Offer

• Growth and development opportunities. Build your career with support from an international and experienced team. We offer mentoring, regular feedback through our 360° feedback process, performance evaluations, and opportunities to grow professionally.
• A culture where you can make an impact. Join a workplace built on trust, empowerment, recognition, and autonomy. We share company goals transparently every quarter and encourage everyone to contribute ideas and take ownership.
• A supportive and international environment. Become part of a diverse team of 30+ nationalities, where collaboration, knowledge sharing, and mutual support are part of everyday life. We value work-life balance and create an environment where people can thrive.
• A great benefits package. We offer a competitive salary, health insurance, additional days off, flexible working hours, employee-led workshops, office perks, regular team-building activities, and company events.

Salary range: € 3000 - 5500 gross / month

If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected] or via LinkedIn.

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About the Company

NFQ is a core technology partner for HomeToGo, a leading marketplace for vacation rentals. Our mission is to power a marketplace with the world's largest selection of vacation rentals, listing millions of offers from trusted partners like Booking.com, Vrbo, and TripAdvisor. Founded in 2014, HomeToGo operates localized apps and websites in more than 30 countries across Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and Asia-Pacific.