PHP Engineer

Join the Studocu Payments Team

Job Description

We are expanding our Payments team and searching for an expert on PHP with experience in modern Laravel. We're looking for an exceptional engineer to join our Payments team at Studocu, where you'll work on mission-critical infrastructure that powers our subscription-based premium service used by millions of students worldwide. You'll collaborate closely with our designers and front-end engineers to shape the future of payments at Studocu.

Our payments infrastructure is a sophisticated, multi-provider ecosystem that handles the complete subscription lifecycle:

• Payment Provider Integration: We integrate with multiple payment providers to support diverse payment methods across 40+ countries, from credit cards and Apple Pay to regional solutions like iDEAL, SEPA Direct Debit, PIX, and GCash.
• Complex Checkout Flows: Build and optimize conversion-critical checkout experiences, including:
  • Multi-step payment flows with authentication, trial subscriptions, and tiered premium plans
  • Real-time A/B testing infrastructure
  • Dynamic payment plan selection with country-specific pricing and currency handling
  • Success and failure state management with comprehensive analytics tracking
• Subscription Management: Own the entire subscription lifecycle, including trial periods, billing cycles, payment method updates, subscription cancellations, dunning management, and payment recovery flows.
• Analytics & Experimentation: Implement event tracking with checkout funnels, payment success/failure analytics, and A/B test variant attribution across the entire payment journey.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• An awesome office in the centre of Amsterdam with a huge garden, right next to the canals.
• A free healthy lunch with our own chef and unhealthy snacks every day when in the office.
• Your own workspace including the hardware of your choosing (Mac or Linux). Since COVID we've had a hybrid approach to work where we aim to see everybody at least twice a week in our office.
• Learn from 35 different nationalities and more than 100 employees. Bringing your own ideas to the table is more than welcome.
• You will be helping to build a product that aids many millions of students worldwide to excel in their courses.
• We are using the latest technologies and updating the older ones whenever possible.
• We will continue to balloon as much as possible, so joining us now gives you the opportunity to be one of our team leaders in the future.
• We are the most funded Edtech scale-up in the Netherlands.
• 24 holidays based on 40 hours per week. We also provide a public transport card and contribute to your pension scheme.

Job Requirements

• A PHP expert with Laravel experience.
• Ability to write high-performance, reusable, and fully tested code.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Event-driven architecture experience.
• Experience with highly scalable and reliable systems.
• Familiarity with Metabase and Grafana is a plus.

Perks

• Financial:
  • Equity scheme in the form of SAR
  • Gifts
  • Pension scheme
  • Referral rewards
• Leave-related:
  • 24 days of paid leave per year
  • Option to buy unpaid leave
  • Special occasions paid leave (e.g. moving day)
• Learning & Development:
  • Annual hackathons
  • In-house Dutch lessons
  • In-house L&D workshops
  • Personal L&D budget of €2,500 per year
• Well-being & Mobility:
  • Annual company trip
  • Sports subscription with OneFit
  • Travel card (NS business) if you live outside of A10 ring road
• Office, Working Remotely & Flexibility:
  • Hybrid work set up between home and office
  • Lots of company events and team building activities
  • Lunch in our office prepared by our Chef Valentijn
  • One floor with a garden and the other with a canal view!
  • Open bar = Friday Drinks!
  • Option to work up to 4 weeks per calendar year from abroad
  • Pet-friendly office (with a no-pets zone)
  • Snacks are on us
  • Work From Home setup budget of €800 via Workwize

* These perks are based on full-time employment (40hrs/week) and may be adjusted based on your FTE%

We are located in a beautiful city centre of Amsterdam. Modern-day commerce mixes with Amsterdam’s atmospheric old town in our cosy location that previously served as Woltjer Gymnasium.

Address: Keizersgracht 424, Amsterdam, 1016 GC

Do you share our passion, drive and vision? Then we’d love to meet you!