Senior PHP Engineer, Bumble Inc.

• Proven backend development experience
• Words like caching, sharding, replication, reliability are familiar to you or you should be able to learn them quickly
• Strong will to learn new stuff
• Knowledge of *nix console environment
• Understanding how to optimise and fine-tune backend application that uses MySQL or other external data sources
• Experience in relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
• Excellent knowledge of PHP, weak and strong points of this language
• Self-motivated and able work independently
• Love to write clean, reusable code and have a passion for development inside and outside of the office
• Solid communication skills and team-working capability
• Positive and logical approach together with willingness to learn
• Attention to detail and a passion for quality

Desirable

• Participate in a creation of a very large scale backend API (PHP/MySQL/NoSQL, millions of active users, thousands of servers, over 50k requests per seconds for PHP backend) and see the results of your efforts in a matter of days
• Write backend code and design databases (no client-side coding required)
• Actively participate in the whole process of development, from initial design to deployment and support
• Proactively communicate with colleagues to refine application design
• Suggest and implement high-tech, innovative solutions
• Optimise backend code, look for bottlenecks and, as and when necessary, implement visualisation and monitoring systems
• This role will be focused on backend coding and database design. Millions of our users will see the results of your work every day, so we pay special attention to the performance and reliability of our system