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Senior Backend Developer (PHP) at Firebird, an international online travel company. Focus on internal products like rail ticket booking and trip building services. Requires 5+ years of backend experience, strong PHP knowledge, and experience with frameworks.

Firebird is an international online travel company that organizes trips to Europe for customers from around the world. We have a dedicated software development department that focuses on our internal products that allow everyone else to deliver some of the top-notch, worldwide services. Currently, there are a number of commercially available projects in production that are being actively worked on: - Service for booking rail tickets https://rail.ninja - Online trip builder https://triptile.com - Service for booking hotels https://travel.ninja Tech stack PHP | Drupal 11, Maria-DB/MySQL, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Docker. We’re expanding both of the product teams and are looking for experienced PHP Backend developers to join us. Your tasks will include - Designing and creating the product architecture; - Back-end development; - Analysis of business requirements and design of their implementation based on existing and new systems; - Modification, implementation and creation of custom modules, components and themes; - Integration with external services (Payment systems, Salesforce, GDS services, etc.); - Conducting code reviews; - Active use of Company-approved AI development tools (e.g., Cursor) in compliance with internal policies, security standards, and evolving corporate guidelines; - Work with version control systems; - Work in Jira, Confluence.

Candidate requirements - 5+ years of backend development experience; - Strong communication skills; - Strong knowledge of PHP (>7.0), code refactoring, coding standards; - Experience with at least one of the popular PHP frameworks; - Knowledge and practical application of OOP principles; - Understanding how web servers work, working in Nginx + php-fpm bundles; - Experience with coding with AI-agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) - Ability to work with the Linux console; - Experience with version control systems (Git).

We offer - Competitive compensation based on interview results; - Opportunity to build a stellar career in a fast-growing international travel company; - Opportunity to work with advanced top-of-the-line software for travel management; - Interesting, challenging tasks and a world-class team.