appflame - Senior Software Engineer PHP

appflame — Ukrainian product IT company that creates world-class products: Hily, Taimi, AdConnect, Mailkeeper, and more.

We are today:

• 7 years, 500+ employees, offices in Kyiv, London, Limassol, and a coworking in Warsaw;

• In 2025, appflame ranked 5th among the 50 best employers in Ukraine according to Forbes and won in the 'Place for Growth' category. 

Our apps Hily and Taimi are among the Top 5 dating apps in the U.S. with over 70 million users, while AdConnect and Mailkeeper specialize in developing and scaling our own B2B and B2C solutions

Our mission:

• Flame up the world with Ukrainian products. 

Our goals:

• Reach the top 5 list of product companies in the world;

• Become a unicorn;

• Turn Ukraine into a country where unicorns are born and thrive. 

We are looking for daring, brave, and “crazy” people. Fans of creating real products and who dream about launching and developing cool startups. You have ambitions, we have comfortable conditions for their fulfillment.

Hily
It is a dating app that allows users to be truly themselves and enjoy dating as they are. On Hily, users become part of a community where people find genuine connections and meaningful relationships. The app ranks among the Top 5 dating apps in the U.S. by downloads, competing with market leaders such as Tinder and Bumble.

• 39M users;

• 1.5B likes sent;

• 50M+ matches annually. 

You will:

• Work on tasks that you can see directly in the application and even use the features you build;

• Be part of a cross-functional team, a full “mini-startup” within the company, where you will take the role of a backend developer;

• Work with OKRs, focusing only on high-impact work rather than busywork;

• Deal with high-load systems, plan releases, and in some cases roll out features gradually;

• Face real technical challenges every day;

• Work with AI assistants that are already part of the environment and can be leveraged in your workflow. 

We’ll have a match if you:

• Love seeing the results of your work in practice and do everything you can to make that happen;

• Have a truly positive mindset, seeing opportunities rather than walls;

• Support team motivation and help build a shared vision for the growth of yourself, the team, and the company.

From you:

• Deep understanding of SOLID principles, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) skills, and design patterns; 

• Use PHP 8.4+;

• Experience with MySQL, Redis, and Memcached;

• Experience working with AI agents;

• Advocates for Test-Driven Development (TDD) in daily work;

• Thinks ahead: plans changes, deployments, and feature rollouts with impact and compatibility in mind.

Will be an advantage:

• Experience with Elasticsearch;

• Experience with DDD methodology. 

Your journey: message from the recruiter > interview > test > final interview > job offer.

Why appflame?

• Involvement in the development of Ukrainian products that compete with the world's best market players. 

• The opportunity to implement your ideas rather than being a cog in the system. 

• Meaningful and useful products created to serve a specific purpose rather than make money for shareholders. 

• Be around like-minded people who work on results. 

• Work with the global market and a huge audience. 

• Direct contact with Snapchat, Meta, Google, Apple, and access to their best practices. 

• Well-established processes and great opportunities to growth within the company. 

• Transparent evaluation of work based on personal performance indicators. 

• Great benefits package and fair compensation. 

We provide all you need for your talents to be fully revealed.
We are loyal to our people. Our loyalty doesn't fade at the end of the working day.
We do not leave our people alone with their problems, neither professional nor personal.

Join us.

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We are against all types of discrimination, bullying, and stereotypes. We provide equal employment opportunities regardless of race, skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, health status, or any other characteristics.