Middle PHP Engineer, Billie
+ Virtual Shares Incentive Programs
2+ days a week in office
Buy Now, Pay Later payments for business
Posted today
Buy Now, Pay Later payments for business
101-200 employees
Posted today
+ Virtual Shares Incentive Programs
2+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify purchasing for all companies and open up new opportunities for growth.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong PHP development expertise with the Symfony framework
- Experience building and maintaining high-availability production systems
- Solid understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures
- Proficiency with Git, CI/CD practices, and automated testing
- Experience with relational databases and query optimization
- Problem Solver: You approach complex challenges methodically and create elegant solutions
- Team Player: You thrive in collaborative environments and embrace practices like TDD and pair programming
- Communicator: You articulate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Product-Minded: You understand how technical decisions impact user experience and business outcomes
- Continuous Learner: You stay current with industry trends and are eager to expand your skill set
Desirable
- Experience with JVM-based languages (Java/Kotlin)
- Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Understanding of Domain-Driven Design principles
- Experience with message brokers (Kafka/RabbitMQ)
- Background in the fintech or payments industry
What the job involves
- Join our dynamic Purchase Team as a Software Engineer and play a pivotal role in architecting, building, and scaling our core buyer systems
- These systems power millions in transaction volume and are critical to our business success
- You'll work in an autonomous, high-impact engineering team, tackling complex technical challenges with measurable business outcomes
- Our hybrid work environment offers flexible arrangements tailored to team needs
- Design & Develop: Craft robust, scalable software solutions for our payments platform using modern PHP practices and event-driven architecture. Balance perfection with practical completion to deliver features efficiently
- Own Quality: Implement comprehensive testing strategies to ensure 99.9%+ uptime for mission-critical payment systems. Identify and mitigate security risks to maintain system integrity
- Drive Innovation: Lead technical initiatives to enhance performance, reduce operational costs, and elevate user experience. Proactively identify potential issues and communicate them to your manager
- Collaborate & Mentor: Engage in pair programming, lead code reviews, and mentor junior engineers to foster a culture of continuous improvement. Collaborate with the product manager on designing smaller features and translating product requirements into working features
- Champion Engineering Excellence: Implement CI/CD pipelines, contribute to technical documentation, and advocate for best practices. Provide constructive pull request reviews and occasionally point out issues to team members
- Measure Impact: Track and report on key technical metrics that drive business outcomes. Understand the team's projects and domain well, and provide insights on how new features will impact overall system performance
Our take
Buy Now, Pay Later(BNPL) options have exploded in popularity in recent years, with companies such as Klarna and Clearpay providing an additional line of credit to customers allowing them to split the cost of their purchases over several installments. Billie is a BNPL built for business transactions, using machine-learning driven risk models to responsibly finance B2B purchases.
With over 100,00 customers processing more than €750 million on its platform, Billie does not face much competition in its market. While BNPL firms like Afterpay and Klarna could theoretically move into the B2B space, they are specialised in B2C financing and lack Billie's data on the B2B sector. Billie also boasts a range of features designed specifically for intra-company sales such as instant verification, invoicing tools and business payment options which give it a large advantage against any new rivals.
Billie has raised a significant amount of funding from investors, most recently in a 2021 Series C round. Additionally Its 2022 integration with Klarna, allowing companies with a Klarna installation to swiftly switch over to Billie's payment options for B2B sales has removed a major roadblock to its future expansion. This move, alongside its entrance into more markets in Europe, will likely speed the company's ascension to Unicorn status and solidify its market lead in the BNPL space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Jul 2019
$31.5m
SERIES B
Total funding: $145.7m
Company benefits
- Flexibility first: We come to the office for important events, but do not have a permanent office presence. Our teams decide how to get the best results
- 30 days vacation per year and 5 extra paid days to look after sick children
- Virtual Share Program
- German language courses from different language levels free of charge
- One-off relocation bonus to make your move easier
- Reimbursement of travel expenses and discount on local public transport in Berlin with the BVG
- Individual training budget of 1,000 euros for courses, conferences and more every year
- Free gym access, weekly yoga classes, healthy snacks, cereals, drinks and more
Company values
- We are pioneers
- We want to make a difference
- We focus on people
Company HQ
Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Articles
Leadership
Aiga Senftleben
(General Counsel)Previously worked on the Legal Counsel at eBay and Paypal. Also worked at Funding Circle Deutschland as a General Counsel and is now a member of the Digital Finance Forum at the Federal Ministry of Finance (Germany)
Christian Grobe
(MD)Graduated from the Free University of Berlin with a Ph.D. in Political Science. Previously co-founded Funding Circle/Zencap where they served as the Managing Director. Also Worked as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company.
Dr. Matthias Knecht
(Co-CEO)Previously co-founded Funding Cirlce/Zencap where they served as Managing Director. Also worked as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company.
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