Game development is our passion!
At Twin Harbour Interactive we strive to develop highquality strategy games and make them accessible for all players around the world. In our eyes game development is a promise for fun and entertainment thats what we live and aim for!
As part of the Swedish Stillfront group we create grand strategy games which are played by over 9 million players in 150 countries and 13 languages all over the world. Our office is located in Hamburgs worldfamous St. Pauli district with a stunning 360 view of the harbor and the Elbe river and easy access to public transport.
Our staff is multicultural and international. We have flat hierarchies open communication culture and support the autonomous work of our agile working teams. We believe in efficient work where each of our employees contributes to the success of our games.
To enhance our great team we are looking for you!
As a Senior PHP Developer (f/m/x) you would extend our PHP backend systems and APIs building enhancing and extending our backend API according to current stability performance scalability security and maintainability standards. You will directly work with marketing and other stakeholders to integrate new partner APIs and tracking systems into our user backend. You can also contribute by implementing new features to our Javascript/HTML tools and services.
YOUR MISSION
- Participate in architecture improvements and modernization of our core PHP API and backend systems powering our games
- Drive initiatives to enhance the stability performance and scalability of our PHP platform and live game systems
- Implement security testing and development best practices
- Contribute highquality maintainable PHP code using a wide range of technologies like Composer Sentry Sonar PHPUnit Github Docker MySQL Memcache Redis Jenkins Grafana Nexus and Nginx
- Give input for the technical vision and roadmap for our PHP backend.
- Partner with Marketing Product and Game Design to align technical work to business goals
- Implement the integration of new APIs payment systems and data tracking
- Mentor and guide developers on your team instilling best practices
YOUR BACKSTORY
- 5 years of professional experience in PHP development
- Expertise in PHP 8 unit testing composer PSRs and modern PHP frameworks
- You have worked on multiserver highload PHP applications
- Experience with complex hightraffic PHP applications and APIs
- Passion for writing clean wellstructured maintainable code using design patterns appropriately
- Ability to implement and promote best practices for reliability performance scalability security
- Excellent analytical and problemsolving skills
- Ability to influence and mentor teammates
- Ability to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements
- You are fluent in technical and business English; German language skills are a plus
- You have experience with agile methodologies like Kanban Scrum
- You are enthusiastic about games and enjoy working in an interdisciplinary team
- You are interested in learning outside of the box and also taking over fullstack development
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