Senior PHP Engineer

**appflame** — a Ukrainian IT company building world-class products: Hily, Taimi, AdConnect, Mailkeeper, and more. **Who we are today:** - 7 years on the market, 500+ employees, offices in Kyiv, London, and Limassol, plus a coworking space in Warsaw. - In 2025, appflame ranked 5th among **Ukraine's 50 best employers** according to Forbes and won in the "Place for Growth" category. - Our apps Hily and Taimi are among the **Top 5 dating apps in the U.S**., with over 70 million users. AdConnect and Mailkeeper build and scale our own B2B and B2C solutions. **Our mission:** Flame up the world with Ukrainian products. **Our goals:** - Reach the top 5 product companies in the world. - Become a unicorn — and turn Ukraine into a country where unicorns are born and thrive. We're looking for daring, ambitious, and "a little crazy" people — those who love building real products and dream of launching cool startups. You have the ambition; we have the conditions to make it happen. ## **Your project:** **Hily**. It is a dating app that allows users to be truly themselves and enjoy dating as they are. On Hily, users become part of a community where people find genuine connections and meaningful relationships. The app ranks among the **Top 5 dating** apps in the U.S. by downloads, competing with market leaders such as Tinder and Bumble. **Hily today**: 40M users, 1.5B likes sent, 50M+ matches annually. ## **You will:** - Work on tasks that you can see directly in the application and even use the features you build. - Be part of the platform team, where your work as a backend engineer multiplies the speed and quality of every product team in the company. - Work with OKRs, focusing only on high-impact work rather than busywork. - Deal with high-load systems, plan releases, and in some cases roll out features gradually. - Face real technical challenges every day. - Work with AI assistants that are already part of the environment and can be leveraged in your workflow. ## **We'll have a match if you:** - Have 5+ years of software engineering experience. - Have English at a B2 level or higher. - Have fluent Ukrainian. - Possess a deep understanding of SOLID principles, OOP, and design patterns. - Work with PHP 8.4+ and Laravel. - Have experience with MySQL, Redis, and Memcached. - Think ahead: plan changes, deployments, and feature rollouts with impact and compatibility in mind. - Demonstrate AI fluency: experience leveraging AI to optimize engineering workflows. - Love seeing the results of your work in practice and do everything you can to make that happen. - Maintain a truly positive mindset, seeing opportunities rather than walls. ## **Will be an advantage:** - Experience with DDD methodology. - Hands-on experience building and supporting agentic workflows; familiarity with SDD, and context engineering. ## **What we offer:** - **Work:** Remote-first setup, modern offices with activities, and all the equipment you need, plus compensation to set up your remote workplace. - **Growth:** Fair pay with regular reviews; after probation, compensation for education and English courses, Online Speaking Club, online library, and course access. - **Health & time off:** Medical insurance coverage, psychologist consultations, unlimited paid sick days, and 31 paid vacation days/year (incl. public holidays). - **Team:** Corporate events, team-building activities, and paid participation in sports competitions. ## **Why appflame?** - Build Ukrainian products that compete with the best players on the global market. - Bring your own ideas to life instead of being a cog in the system. - Direct contact with Snapchat, Facebook, Google, and Apple, and access to their best practices. - Work with a global market and a massive audience. - A team of like-minded people focused on results. - Well-established processes and real opportunities to grow within the company. - Transparent evaluation based on personal performance indicators. **Join our team — it's going to be hotte…