PHP Software Engineer (m/f/n/)

About the role

ESET's Global Web Development team builds and runs the websites through which millions of people find, buy and learn about ESET products, the ESET Knowledge Base, the ESET Blog, the ESET Science Award site and the internal ESET CMS platform. The PHP Software Engineer works in a two-week Scrum team, owns features from ticket to production and works alongside frontend.NET and DevOps colleagues.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain the REST APIs that serve product data, pricing, localised content and forms to the web frontends.
• Improve performance and reliability: fix slow queries and endpoints, add caching, rate limiting and sensible limits, and ensure stability during traffic peaks such as product launches and campaigns.
• Investigate incidents with the team and fix root causes.
• Follow secure development practices, take part in security reviews and fix vulnerabilities found by scans and audits.
• Build webhooks and automations between systems and help shape the use of AI-assisted development in code, tests and reviews.

Required profile

• At least 3 years of commercial experience building PHP 8.x applications, with Laravel or Symfony.
• University degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• English at B2 level or higher; clear written communication in English is important.
• Experience debugging issues in production.

Required skills

• OOP, SOLID, common design patterns and dependency injection containers.
• REST APIs and third-party API integration; MySQL or PostgreSQL, including query plan reading and slow-query optimisation.
• Automated testing (PHPUnit, unit and feature/integration tests).
• Daily use of Git, Docker, Composer and Linux, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Nice to have: GraphQL, Azure/AWS/GCP and basic Kubernetes, Redis, RabbitMQ/Kafka, observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), DDD/CQRS, and hands-on experience with AI coding assistants.

What we offer

• Basic wage component from 2,000 EUR gross, adjusted for skills and experience.
• Performance bonus twice a year, up to 15% of basic salary.
• Healthcare, multisport and travel cards, supplementary pension saving, sick days, family allowances and parental contribution.
• Office refreshments, activity room, loyalty allowance and extra days off.
• Hybrid work, primary location Bratislava.