Hi from the Instapro Group 👋🏼
We're the technology company behind a home services revolution. Our mission is to help tradespeople get the work they want and homeowners hire the tradespeople they need.
At Instapro, every team member’s perspective and experience advances our mission. We are committed to creating a workplace that reflects the communities we serve. We work hard to mitigate biases in our recruitment process and foster a welcoming and inclusive environment.
Open in all locations: France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom
We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Platform Foundation Team.
What does the Platform Foundation Team do?
The Platform Foundation Team’s mission is to enable teams by developing the platform itself, along with authentication and authorisation for users and services. Some things we’re currently working on:
Developing an event bus that can be used by teams to enable cross-service communication
Improving and scaling our Message Queue system that currently handles 90M asynchronous messages a day
Improving the security of our platform.
You’ll also work with our community of back-end engineers to help ensure the high quality of the software, for example by introducing new technologies, improving and setting quality standards, exchanging experience, and taking on more extensive cross-team backend initiatives.
Technology
Our focus is to produce high-quality, working, and tested code that not only keeps us happy and productive but also helps the business to succeed. Our development process has been honed through exploring various flavours of agile and we believe that our way of working helps us get the right things done at the right time.
Our core backend stack consists of PHP 8.3, Symfony 6.4, MySQL 8, RabbitMQ, Redis, GraphQL, Docker and Kubernetes, all running on AWS. In addition, we have services using Serverless, Aurora PostgreSQL and EventBridge.
We keep a close eye on quality and make sure we test everything in an automated way with tools like PHPUnit, PHPStan, Phan and PHP-CS-Fixer, all integrated into GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
Your role includes the following :
Collaborate effectively with the immediate team and the wider engineering team to deliver high-quality solutions for our users - the engineers themselves
Drive ideas, solutions, and improvements during product and technical discussions
Contribute to, maintain, and adhere to the company development quality standards and best practices with other backend developers
Understand data and context that drive decisions
Bring your opinion to the table and be respectful to others while engaging in productive discussions
Guide and support other engineers in their growth
Share your knowledge and experience with others
Excellent demonstrable experience developing web applications with PHP & Symfony / Laravel
Mastery of software design principles and back-end application architecture, with the knowledge of applying them in practice (preferably experience with Layered Architecture and Domain Driven Design)
Experience designing scalable, highly available and fault-tolerant services
Experience with test automation tools and frameworks, identification & implementation of comprehensive automated testing
Good communication skills and a collaborative & emphatic mindset
Exposure to agile and lean development processes as part of a modern team
Nice to have
Experience with GraphQL, GitLab pipelines, Kubernetes, and AWS
Exposure to Event Driven Architecture
Experience designing scalable, highly available and fault-tolerant services
You can make an Impact. Joining Instapro Group is an opportunity to help crack the code in one of the last big industries to become digital-first. We’re leaders in our markets, yet small enough for everyone to make a real difference.
We care. We don’t believe in one size fits all. Whether it’s flexibility in your working hours, your location, or opportunities to advance and grow, you’ll find a supportive and open culture designed to help our team members thrive.
These are the benefits you'll enjoy:
Highly competitive salary package
Hybrid work environment
Hybrid allowance/benefit
Temporary work from abroad policy
Mental health support
Regular team and social events
Further benefits depending on location
These are the values that guide everything we do:
Read our values in full here
Interested in applying? Submit your application below and we will get back to you.
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You need to be based in one of our office locations or be willing to relocate to one of them.
We have a hybrid-work model, which means that it’s up to you whether you prefer to work onsite or feel more comfortable working from home. However, in some roles, we might be looking for people to come to the office more regularly. You can have a look at what locations we are active in via the button below.
Please go through the job description once again and be ready to ask your questions to help yourself better understand if our environment matches your expectations.
You can visit Instapro Group's other web spaces, such as our LinkedIn page, to get a feel for our vibe.
Our interviewing processes can differ slightly depending on the department. The three steps that are consistent for every vacancy are a talk with the hiring manager at the beginning, a team interview in the middle, and an elevator interview at a later phase of the process. The best way to prepare for an elevator interview is to go over our values.
