PHP Developer

Hostinger

. Build and run high-performance, high-scale public and private APIs and internal services .

Posted 10/2/2026full-timeVilnius • LithuaniaMid-LevelSenior💰 €5,000 per monthWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and optimizing high-performance APIs and internal services using PHP and Go, with a strong focus on system design, security, and collaboration across teams. Proficient in REST API design principles and database management, with a commitment to improving engineering standards and team tooling.

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PHP DevelopmentGo ProgrammingREST API DesignSystem Design ThinkingDatabase Management

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Hard Skills

API DevelopmentAuthentication SystemsWebhooksWebSocketsDatabase Schema DesignCachingMessage QueuesData PipelinesPerformance OptimizationCode Review

Soft Skills

CollaborationProblem-SolvingClean ArchitectureEngineering JudgmentDocumentation

Tools & Technologies

GrafanaSentryRabbitMQKafkaRedpandaClickHouse

Industry Keywords

Distributed SystemsEvent-Driven SystemsIdempotencyReal-Time SystemsIMAPSMTP

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GrafanaKafkaLaravelPHPRabbitMQSMTPGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and run high-performance, high-scale public and private APIs and internal services
Develop authentication, provisioning, webhooks, websockets, webmail, contacts, calendar, and email migration/import systems
Build routing, policy, and spam-filtering systems
Own features end to end from discovery through deployment and post-deployment follow-up
Work mostly in PHP and use Go for high-scale, high-availability components
Optimize slow queries and system performance for millions of mailboxes
Harden authentication, sessions, and security edge cases
Monitor production systems with Grafana, Sentry, and alerting
Improve team tooling, automation, and documentation
Participate in code reviews and raise engineering standards
Collaborate with system engineers, backend and frontend developers, QA engineers, Customer Support, Security, Network, Storage, and infrastructure teams
Help shape platform architecture and development patterns

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong core software engineering principles
Clean architecture and sound engineering judgment
System design thinking, including consistency-versus-latency and synchronous-versus-asynchronous trade-offs
Understanding of distributed, event-driven systems, including queues, webhooks, retries, and idempotency
Solid understanding of databases, caches, and queues, including schema design and indexing
REST API design principles, including versioning and backward compatibility
Primary day-to-day PHP experience
Willingness to learn Go
Experience with PHP/Laravel
Nice to have: hands-on Go experience
Nice to have: familiarity with IMAP and SMTP
Nice to have: real-time systems experience, including WebSockets or pub/sub
Nice to have: message queues and data pipelines, including RabbitMQ, Kafka/Redpanda, or ClickHouse
Nice to have: experience with AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Copilot

Benefits

Comp & perks

Limitless learning opportunities, including access to Reforge and CoachHub
Global conferences
Physical and digital libraries
Feedback culture
Mentoring through TesoXchange
Internal mobility opportunities
Flexible work arrangements from modern offices, home, or anywhere in the world
Flexible schedule management
Health insurance from Day 1
Gym memberships
Recharge leave
Headspace subscriptions
Regular health checks
Wellbeing events, sports, arts, and hobby clubs
Company events including Summerfest, Winterfest, Town Hall, Meet the Client initiatives, team-buildings, and workations
Access to the Žalgiris Arena VIP Lounge
Milestone gifts for weddings, new parenthood, and graduations