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Backend Developer (PHP)

Posted 24 Mar 2024
Work experience
1 to 3 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Come join Brenger as a backend developer to build the transportation platform that solves the surprisingly unsolved problem of shipping bulky goods economically, optimizes the utilization of vans on the road, and reduces CO2 emissions along the way!

We can be a match for you if you enjoy building robust, performant, and well-tested server-side applications that interface with the world primarily through REST, message queues and third-party services through their web APIs. We are a well-funded 2-year-old startup with a steady growth curve comprised of 15 enthusiastic people. The dev team consists of 6 and is expected to double during the next year (currently 1 senior backend developer and 1 backend developer). The rest of the people are doing growth, operations, accounts, and customer care. Our offices are located in The Thinking Hut, situated in the prettiest part of Amsterdam Oost.

What we offer:

  • Good salary, possibility for stock options
  • 25 paid vacation days
  • Sane working hours
  • Visa sponsorship, if required of course
  • Highly-skilled, international dev team, most are humans
  • Lots of opportunities to learn
  • Team events which are actually enjoyable: no awkwardness
  • Friday drinks, if that’s your thing

The parts of the tech stack you would be working with:

  • The core backend service based on API Platform (which is in turn based on Symfony 4)
  • Behat, PHPUnit
  • PostgreSQL 9.6 db, hosted on RDS, accessed through Doctrine 2
  • Containerized Debian + PHP-FPM runtime on ECS Fargate
  • GitLab CI (along with most of GitLab’s other parts)
  • Amazon API Gateway

The results of your work are going to be primarily consumed by React+Redux-Saga web applications, internal and 3rd party services (e.g. ETL, business intelligence, along with the expected 3rd party payments, operations, support, and other stuff). A mobile application to support drivers using the platform is on our short-term roadmap.

There are some things we do not do, like unproductive merge/pull request discussions regarding coding standards and style which we avoid by enforcing them in CI. Instead, we always welcome improvements regarding architecture, programming, and operations practices: anything that strengthens our workflows.

You are also very welcome to poke around in our codebase if you drop by.

Opportunities:

  • You are welcome to participate in other backend projects if you know Python 3 or are willing to learn.

Our process for hiring:

  1. Introductory call or meeting depending on where you are situated to get to know each other as humans
  2. Coding challenge to get to know you as a dev. Nothing too time-consuming. We expect you to be able to have a life too.
  3. In-depth technical interview, team fit + meet the founders meeting
  4. Offer 🎉

Requirements

We are looking for someone who:

  • Is familiar with the modern PHP ecosystem (7.x features, Composer, etc.)
  • Has a preference for our tech stack
  • Has solid experience with ORMs and RDBMS
  • Is competent using git and issue trackers in team workflows

Brenger is more than an ambitious scale-up crossing borders to our neighboring countries. We change the world of transportation of bulky goods for good. It’s a sustainable, simple and an everyone-winning solution.
We’re in the middle of a revolution, a love duet between the algorithms and couriers. Positivity, transparency, daring and while keeping it simple: that is what a true…


Brenger is more than an ambitious scale-up crossing borders to our neighboring countries. We change the world of transportation of bulky goods for good. It’s a sustainable, simple and an everyone-winning solution.

We’re in the middle of a revolution, a love duet between the algorithms and couriers. Positivity, transparency, daring and while keeping it simple: that is what a true Brenger brings into the game. We offer you a place to learn and grow, while having fun. Do you have what it takes?

Logistics
Amsterdam
Active in 3 countries
55 employees
50% men - 50% women
Average age is 30 years

What employees are saying

Boudewijn

Customer Service

Boudewijn

Bij Brenger ben ik begonnen in het Operations Team. Wat ik erg leuk vind, is dat ik de mogelijkheid heb gekregen om bij meerdere takken van het bedrijf een kijkje in de keuken te krijgen. Zo heb ik stage bij het Marketing Team gelopen en ben ik nu werkzaam bij de Zakelijke support afdeling.

Tinka

Sales Development Representative

Tinka

Ik werk nu ruim een halfjaar full-time bij Brenger in het sales team en ik raad het iedereen aan om hier te werken. Er is veel ruimte voor eigen inbreng en creativiteit, en we werken met gedreven, enthousiaste jonge mensen met humor. Hele toffe start-up in Amsterdam Centrum! :)