appflame - Middle 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.

You will:

• Develop and maintain backend services, refactor existing code, fix bugs, and implement new features to enhance system functionality;

• Optimize performance, ensure data integrity, and actively participate in architecture decisions and code reviews;

• Design scalable, high-load systems using MySQL, Redis, and ClickHouse;

• Migrate components of existing projects to a microservices architecture for better modularity and maintainability;

• Work with message queues like Kafka to ensure reliable and efficient asynchronous data processing;

• Propose and implement improvements to strengthen trust and safety in automated processes. 

We’ll have a match if you:

• 3+ years of experience in PHP development with focus on Symfony;

• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles;

• Skills with Kafka, Redis, ClickHouse, MySQL;

• Experience with Git, Docker;

• Understanding of RESTful API development principles;

• Basic knowledge of frontend - vue, javascript, html, css;

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills;

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team;

• Readiness to work in stressful conditions;

• Critical thinking, creativity and analytical mindset. 

Will be an advantage:

• strong understanding of Trust and Safety principles. 

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.