Lead Backend Engineer | PHP | Business Enablement

What is NordLayer? 

NordLayer secures remote workspaces for 3,000+ businesses worldwide (including multiple Fortune 50 companies) by encrypting every connection point. This makes it impossible to trace the origin, ensuring a completely safe remote work experience - whether you’re at an airport, on a bus, or in a café.

NordLayer’s Business Enablement team is essential to the organization,  and your role will be crucial in shaping current and future iterations on third party tool integrations. This means building robust code that bridges the gap between different systems. Be one of the first to join this newly formed team and help us build sustainable and future-proof solutions.

Main Responsibilities

• Expand and improve our codebase by writing clean, quality PHP code supported by automated tests;

• Prioritize security in all development work to ensure robust and safe solutions;

• Advocate for good coding practices, continuous delivery, and technical excellence;

• Initiate and champion new technologies and development processes to enhance team capabilities;

• Unify workflows, frameworks, and practices across teams to streamline operations.

Core Requirements

• At least 5 + years of experience working with PHP;

• Fluency in Symfony;

• Understanding of OOP principles & good code design;

• Previous experience in building highly scalable systems;

• Knowledge of API design and good MySQL practices with experience handling big data quantities;

• Familiarity with Docker, RabbitMQ, Redis, and version control using Git.

Bonus Points for

• Experience working in Microservices;

• Knowledge in CQRS.

Technologies You Will Use

• PHP 8;

• Go;

• Redis;

• Symfony;

• SLIM;

• GitLab;

• MySQL;

• Eloquent ORM.

Salary range

• 17100-32900 Gross/PLN/Month (employment contract)

• 17100-32900 PLN/Month + VAT (B2B contract)

About Us

Nord Security is a global leader in internet privacy and security solutions and Lithuania’s second tech unicorn. Established in 2012, Nord Security now has more than 1400 employees and serves millions of users worldwide. Our team has a global mission to shape a more secure and peaceful online future for people everywhere. With that in mind, we built several advanced cybersecurity solutions: NordVPN, NordLayer, NordLocker, NordPass, NordProtect, NordStellar, and Saily.

NordLayer is an adaptive network access security solution for modern businesses developed by the standard of NordVPN.

We help organizations of all sizes enhance their internet security and modernize network and resource access with technical improvements aligning with the best regulatory compliance standards. Helping organizations to adopt ZTNA principles, NordLayer is focused on the Security Service Edge of cybersecurity services.

Quick and easy to integrate with existing infrastructure, hardware-free, and designed with ease of scale in mind, NordLayer meets the varying growth pace and ad-hoc cybersecurity requirements of agile businesses and distributed workforces today.

And we’re always looking to expand our team of:

• Future shapers

• Restless achievers

• Self-movers

• Honest communicators

• Team players

What We Offer

• Access to Nord Security products. We build solutions used by millions of users worldwide, and you’ll get to experience our products firsthand, at no charge; 

• Professional growth. Internal and external events, online training, conferences, books - everything you need to reach full potential; 

• Health benefits. Private health insurance, sports access card, online workouts, consultations, programs to improve mental health to feel and be your best;

• Mental wellbeing. Access to mental health tools like Calm, Headspace, and Mindletic. Options for therapy to keep your emotional wellbeing in check; 

• Team spirit. Team buildings and parties with games, shows, tastings, food coupons, gifts, and it’s on us; 

• Additional paid leave. Additional days are covered by us in cases of illness or special occasions; 

• Flexibility. Flexible working time arrangement.

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