Senior Full Stack Engineer - PHP (remote from Spain)

About Bark

Bark is revolutionising the way people find professionals in over 1,000 unique categories. As the UK's largest and fastest-growing services marketplace, we're on a mission to make finding the right professional quick and easy. With a presence in eleven countries and plans for further expansion, joining us at this genuinely exciting time will be a journey like no other.

Our cutting-edge technology ensures that you can always find the best professional for any job. With a talented team of over 270 dedicated individuals, we're committed to providing exceptional service and ensuring that our customers are satisfied every step of the way.

This is an exciting time to join our scaling business, we recently placed in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024, and previously were 64th in the Sunday Times 100 fastest growing private tech companies in 2023.

As a profitable scale-up, Bark is in a unique position to offer the best of both worlds; the excitement and agility of a start up combined with the financial security and backing of a renowned private equity firm, EMK Capital. You'll have ownership, agility, responsibility and stimulation without any of the worry.

About the rol

eWe are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our growing monetisation squad. You?ll become a core part of our small, highly agile team which is responsible for transforming our product. You will work with us to figure out user problems with regards to monetisation and how we scale our technical systems to achieve this

.You?ll be someone who loves innovating and problem solving, and gets a kick out of working fast to develop prototypes and iterating to find the optimal result. You?ll work across our tech stack to solve a variety of challenges from our back-end processes, to our APIs, to our front-end product

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We are in the middle of transforming and modernising our technology stack so you will have the opportunity and be encouraged to contribute to new technology decisions, helping to shape our technology strategy, adapting our architecture as we gro

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*please note you must be based in Spain to be considered for this fully remote r

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Responsibili

tiesBuild elegant and performant APIs and Front End solu
tionDevelop and manage well-functioning databases and applicat
ionsTranslation of UX/UI designs into production quality product experiences, using our proposed Front End s
tackProactively propose and implement improvements to the code
baseMentor other engineers to support their gr
owthDesign and code solutions for systems with 1000s of transactions a se
condCollaboration with product managers and designers to create prototypes necessary for usability evaluations, A/B and MVP testing and development specificat

ions
Required skills and exper

ience5+ years of experience as a Full Stack Engineer working with PHP (Laravel or Symfony prefe
rred)Experience building scalable, high-performing web applica
tionsProduction MySQL/PostgreSQL experience; strong SQL s
killsExperience building, maintaining, testing and documenting
APIsStrong organisational s
killsWillingness to work with Python (FastAPI or sim
ilar)Ability to achieve goals in a highly innovative and fast paced enviro

nment
Desired skills and expe

rience?Proficiency in React (Javascript/Typesc
ript)Using Docker in production, ideally with Kubernetes or Fargate/EC
S/EKSFamiliarity with the AWS ecosystem. Knowledge of SQS (or similar such as RabbitMQ), SNS (or Kafka), and how they are
usedExperience with other data stores like ElasticSearch, MongoDB or sim
ilar Strong understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and adherence to SOLID principles and proficiency in implementing Clean Architecture prac
ticesExperience with event-driven architecture, including event sourcing and related pa

terns
Some of our be

nefitsFully remote w
orkingPersonal annual L&D Budgets with 600? to spend on your devel
opmentBeing at the forefront of an industry with new and exciting problems t

solve
Interview

ProcessScreening Call with Talent Partner (3
0 mins)1st Stage - Hiring Manager Stage (30/45/6
0 mins)2nd Stage - Technical Task (6
0 mins)3rd Stage - Values interview (

0 mins)
Diversity S

tatementAt Bark, we are a platform for people, revolutionising the way professionals and individuals connect since 2014. Our culture is defined by excitement, ambition, and a commitment to raising the bar. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and are dedicated to embedding these principles into everything we do. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, and our focus is on hiring, retaining and developing a globally diverse workforce that is passionate about excelling our platform and supporting our customers succeed. Be part of our dynamic team, where bold ideas thrive, and create a future worth shouti

ng about.