Backend Engineer | Mid | PHP | Active Growth

From product and engineering to sales marketing and data our teams work closely together to deliver secure scalable solutions trusted by companies around the world.

Your impact Empowering businesses everywhere to keep their people systems and data safe.

• Build extend and own security-facing backend services (breach detection email masking and related tooling) with a high bar for quality performance and correctness.

• Use AI-assisted workflows daily (code generation test scaffolding debugging performance tuning) and continuously evaluate new tooling that can improve the squads output.

• Help establish shared AI practices within the team: review patterns prompt libraries and guardrails so AI-generated code meets the same standard as hand-written code.

• Participate in system design and architectural decisions advocating for solutions that are secure scalable and maintainable.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Frontend Android iOS and Backend engineers to deliver end-to-end features across all platforms.

• Take ownership of what you build from design through production and hold yourself accountable for uptime reliability and code quality.

• 3 years of hands-on PHP development in production systems.

• Demonstrable AI-native workflow: you already use tools like Cursor Copilot Claude or similar daily for code generation refactoring test creation and debugging and you take full ownership of every output.

• Solid grasp of system design. You know which patterns fit which problems and can articulate trade-offs clearly.

• Strong understanding of OOP asynchronous programming and design patterns.

• Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines unit testing and integration testing as non-negotiable parts of shipping.

• Clear proactive communicator who works well in a cross-functional environment.

• Experience with Go (we use it alongside PHP).

• Knowledge of cryptography or security engineering fundamentals.

• Contributions to internal tooling developer experience or engineering enablement.

• Experience building or integrating AI agents LLM-powered features or automated pipelines beyond personal productivity.

• PHP

• Go

• MySQL

• Redis

• RabbitMQ

• Docker

• AWS

Innovate with industry leaders

Work alongside global experts to build world-leading cybersecurity tools impacting millions of users around the world.

Learn & grow

Boost your skills via our extensive training programs (online and offline) & other resources. Benefit from mentorship and career-switch opportunities to grow within the company.

Work from anywhere

Recharge with a change of scenery choose work from any location when you feel a need to power your creativity and drive.

Physical well-being

Fuel your active lifestyle with online workouts led by our Physical Well-Being experts. Unlock a variety of sports and wellness facilities like gyms swimming pools and fitness classes with the Multisport card.

Mental & emotional health

Nurture your mind with free psychologist consultations dedicated mental health events and premium access to top-rated wellness apps like Calm Headspace and Mindletic.

Premium healthcare

Receive private health insurance giving you peace of mind for your health needs.

Joyful moments special treats

Celebrate lifes big moments with special gifts from us on your birthday anniversary and other major events such as weddings or the arrival of a new family member.

Company events & team-building

Experience iconic Nord Security celebrations team-buildings and knowledge-sharing events nurturing bonds that fuel our success.

Workation

Embark on a legendary company getaway abroad filled with exciting activities live concerts engaging workshops and epic time together.

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