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Software Architect (PHP/Symfony)
WhiteTech
WorldwideremotePosted today
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Key highlights
- Experience Level: 8+ years backend development
- Key Requirement: Strong PHP and Symfony experience
- Key Requirement: FinTech, Payments, or Banking experience
- Benefit: Fully remote within CET time zone
- Benefit: 19 business days flexible PTO
- Compensation: Competitive package commensurate with experience
Role overview
WhiteTech empowers businesses in the financial ecosystem with cutting-edge white-label and SAAS solutions tailored for EMI, PSP, e-commerce, and open banking platforms. They are seeking a Software Architect to shape the technical future of their platform and help scale mission-critical fintech products processing large volumes of financial transactions. As a Software Architect, you will define and evolve the architecture of the core fintech platform, working with Technical Leads, Product Managers, and business stakeholders to design scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions. You will act as a technical authority across multiple teams and contribute to the company's long-term technology strategy.
Responsibilities
- Designing and evolving the architecture of mission-critical fintech products.
- Defining architectural standards, engineering principles, and best practices across teams.
- Leading architectural reviews and validating technical solutions proposed by engineering teams.
- Designing highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
- Driving system decomposition, domain boundaries, and service interactions.
- Collaborating with Technical Leads on complex technical challenges and strategic initiatives.
- Participating in the design of integrations with banking systems, compliance services, and other external platforms.
- Identifying and mitigating technical risks, bottlenecks, and scalability limitations.
- Supporting modernization initiatives, architectural refactoring, and technical debt reduction.
- Working closely with Product and Business stakeholders to transform business requirements into sustainable technical solutions.
- Mentoring senior engineers and technical leaders on architecture and engineering practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend development experience.
- Strong commercial experience with PHP and Symfony.
- Previous experience as Software Architect, System Architect, Solution Architect, Principal Engineer, or Lead Backend Engineer with significant architecture ownership.
- FinTech, Payments, Banking, EMI, PSP, or Open Banking experience.
- Deep understanding of OOP, SOLID, GRASP, and design patterns.
- Strong experience designing high-load and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
- Experience with Event-Driven Architecture, CQRS, and Event Sourcing.
- Experience designing microservice architectures and service communication patterns.
- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, performance optimization, and database design.
- Experience with Redis, message brokers, caching strategies, and asynchronous processing.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native environments.
- Understanding of system observability, monitoring, logging, and performance analysis.
- Experience documenting and presenting architectural decisions.
- Ability to balance business goals with technical excellence.
Nice to have
- Experience working with platforms processing millions of transactions.
- Experience with platform modernization and large-scale migrations.
- Experience defining architecture standards across multiple engineering teams.
- Experience mentoring Lead Engineers and Senior Engineers.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package (commensurate with your experience)
- 19 business days of flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Fully remote work with flexible hours (within the CET time zone) from any location of your choice
- Values-driven culture with a friendly and supportive work environment
- Opportunity to regularly participate in conferences and community events as both a participant and contributor
- Matrix organizational structure designed to streamline communication, remove barriers, and promote efficiency
Additional details
- Remote-first technology company welcoming applications from candidates across Europe, including the EEA, the UK, Switzerland, and other non-EEA European countries such as Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Montenegro, Turkey, and the Western Balkans.
- Consideration for applicants from different locations who can work within Central European Time (CET).
- Success metrics: Engineering teams follow clear architectural standards; Platform scalability and reliability improve as the business grows; New products and services are designed with long-term maintainability in mind; Technical debt is systematically managed and reduced; Architecture decisions enable faster delivery without compromising quality or security.
- Recruitment process: Application screening, Interview Stages (2-3 weeks) including Prescreening call with recruiter, Technical Interview, Final Interview, and Job Offer.
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