MIDDLE BACK-END DEVELOPER

  • Full-time
  • Latvia

SUN FINANCE is a Riga-based fintech company providing financial services across four continents. Founded in 2017, we’ve grown beyond the startup phase—but we’ve kept its energy and innovation, now strengthened by stability and a great work environment.

Our success-driven team thrives on collaboration, ambition, and shared growth. And we’re not slowing down. Join us and be part of what’s next!

IT TEAM

IThe IT team consists of 80+ professionals across 8 different teams, working with 10+ products. They are cross-functional, self-sufficient, and highly autonomous teams led by supporting and inspirational leaders. You will work in a full-stack team with colleagues like Service support specialists, QAs, Back-End, Front-End, Products owner, and Team lead. Our stable processes will allow you to focus on your tasks and receive as much support as you need. We have varieties of different tasks (bug fixes, refactoring, different integrations, packages, and services creation and much more). 

THE TECHNOLOGY WE USE

Laminas and Symfony 4-5, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, PHP 7.4/8+, Docker, AWS services , Kubernetes, CircleCI, GitHub, Microservices , DDD, Kong, RabbitMQ, RESTFULL API, OpenSearch and Grafana for real-time monitoring and much more.

AS A BACK-END DEVELOPER, YOU WILL

  • Maintain and improve live product including internal packages and microservices
  • Build integrations with third-party products and services such as - payment systems, credit bureaus, fraud systems, AWS services, and etc
  • Analyse and develop automated solutions for internal systems
  • Cover existing and new code with unit tests
  • Participate in team internal technical sessions where you can share new ideas and approaches
  • Become an expert in the fintech domain

REQUIREMENTS

  • At least 3 years experience with PHP 7+ or PHP8
  • Experience with at least one of following frameworks - Zend, Laminas, Symfony, Laravel
  • Strong understanding of relational databases (experience with Doctrine ORM will be considered as a huge advantage)
  • Experience building REST / RPC APIs
  • Strong emphasis on testing


AS AN ADVANTAGE


  • Experience with PostgreSQL
  • Experience with Finance
  • Experience with CI/CD
  • Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS


BENEFITS

  • Hybrid work arrangements allowing to combine work from home and office
  • Flexible working hours start as late as 10 am
  • Health insurance
  • Well-being activities, surprises, and birthday gifts (sporty challenges, mini competitions with prizes)
  • Supporting self-driven learning (i.e., paid conference fees, relevant Udemy courses etc)
  • Receive bonuses for long-term cooperation like extra holidays, etc.
  • Free coffee & soft drinks to fuel those tough mornings
  • Variety of snacks and soups at the kitchen
  • Enjoy the private gym
  • Learn and grow in a company of over 10 nationalities
  • No suits! Unless it's Carnival or Halloween
  • Salary range 2900-4300 EUR gross depending on work experience and skills