Collibra’s Senior Backend Web Developer will be a key member of our Digital Marketing team, responsible for building, maintaining, and securing the infrastructure that powers our global web presence. Reporting to the Director of Digital Marketing, you’ll work closely with a collaborative group of engineers, designers, marketers and content authors to deliver performant, scalable and integrated digital experiences. From managing CI/CD pipelines and troubleshooting mission-critical outages to developing robust PHP/Python scripts for custom APIs, you’ll ensure our websites and services remain fast, secure, and highly functional. This role is vital to support and enable our cross-functional teams, from Marketing and Customer Support to Finance and Engineering, to leverage web technology that drives lead generation, product access and customer success. As a back-end developer and system integrator, you’ll apply deep technical expertise to improve efficiency, enhance security and support the end-to-end delivery of web experiences that reflect Collibra’s leadership in the data and AI governance space.
This is a hybrid role based in our Prague office. Our hybrid model means you’ll work from the office at least two days each week. This setup helps us stay connected, work more closely together, and keep making progress as a team.
Senior Back-End Web Developer’s at Collibra are responsible for- Designing, developing, and maintaining backend services, system integrations and APIs that support Collibra’s global web properties
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams including within Marketing, Engineering, Data Office and Customer Support to deliver secure, scalable and high-performing backend solutions
- Managing and optimizing infrastructure tools and workflows across environments (local, staging, production) using CI/CD pipelines and Git best practices
- Building, customizing and securing WordPress environments including custom post types, templates, plugins and PHP/JavaScript functions
- Leading the development of our federated search integrations, gated content access systems, and user-specific personalization through scripting in Python and PHP
- Proactively monitoring web server performance, troubleshooting outages, and implementing security patches across WPEngine, AWS and Cloudflare-hosted properties
- Creating and maintaining documentation for all backend systems, integrations and automation scripts
- Ensuring marketing systems like Salesforce, Marketo, and others integrated accurately and reliably via backend development and API logic
- Supporting internal stakeholders by diagnosing access or technical issues and implementing sustainable backend solutions
- Improving page speed, query performance, and backend code maintainability through structured refactoring and performance tuning
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of professional backend web development experience, ideally in B2B SaaS or agency settings
- Expertise in PHP and Python with working knowledge of Node.js and JavaScript frameworks such as Vue
- Knowledge working with Sanity or another modern headless CMS
- Strong experience with WordPress, LAMP stack development, REST APIs, and relational databases (MySQL)
- Strong proficiency with Wordpress architecture, templating, hooks, plugin development and REST API expertise
- Proven ability developing with Salesforce SOQL preferred
- Strong proficiency with source control systems such as Git and using GitHub actions
- Familiarity with AWS services including CloudFront, CloudSearch, S3, and API Gateway
- Strong proficiency with web server management (Apache/Nginx), Cloudflare and DevOps tools (cPanel, WHM, CRON, CLI)
- Demonstrated ability to build secure, scalable and modular backend systems, with an emphasis on cross-functional integrations
- Experience with Project Management tools such as JIRA, Asana
- A portfolio of backend-focused code samples (GitHub or similar), with clearly documented contributions
- must have work authorization to work in Prague, CZ
- A backend-focused engineer who excels at turning business needs into clean, maintainable backend code
- Proactive in identifying and solving technical issues before they impact end-users or stakeholders
- Comfortable working across development environments and adept at debugging complex integration issues
- A collaborative team player who can clearly communicate technical constraints and possibilities to non-technical stakeholders
- Detail-oriented and committed to documentation, testing and scalable architecture
- Within your first month, you will have familiarized yourself with our development environments, completed onboarding to key systems and repos, and contributed to updates or fixes
- Within your third month, you will have taken ownership of at least one major backend integration or system, improved documentation and contributed to cross-functional web projects
- Within your sixth month, you will be the primary technical owner of all backend web systems and services, regularly contributing code, proposing architectural improvements and partnering with business stakeholders maintaining scalable digital solutions
Collibra recognizes and values that everyone has different needs, interests, and life goals. We built our benefits program with flexibility in mind to support you and your loved ones through a diverse range of circumstances and life events. These flexible offerings sit on a foundation of competitive compensation, health coverage, and time off. Learn more about Collibra’s benefits.
We create inclusion and belonging through how we onboard, meet, connect, engage, and communicate. Learn more about diversity, equity, and inclusion at Collibra.
At Collibra, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We realize the key to creating a company with a world-class culture and employee experience comes from who we hire and creating a workplace that celebrates everyone.
With this, we proudly consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, sex, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, HIV status, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status or any other legally protected category. If you have a need that requires accommodation, let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
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What We Do
Data has endless potential, if people can trust it.
Collibra helps organizations turn data into a trusted asset that drives business value, innovation, and AI readiness. Our cloud-based data intelligence platform connects data, people, and processes across the enterprise so teams can find, understand, and use the right data with confidence.
By uniting governance, quality, privacy, lineage, and catalog capabilities in one secure, scalable SaaS solution, Collibra gives companies a single source of truth and a foundation they can trust as they embrace AI.
Today, Collibra powers possibility for many of the world’s most data-driven organizations, from global banks and healthcare leaders to public institutions and high-growth tech companies. We help them use data responsibly to make faster, smarter, and more ethical decisions while meeting the highest standards for compliance and innovation.
What truly differentiates us is the way we work. Collibrians bring curiosity, clarity, and care to everything we do. We collaborate across functions and time zones as a global #OneCollibra team, solving complex challenges and delivering measurable impact for our customers.
Founded in Brussels and headquartered in New York, with offices in Raleigh, London, Prague, and beyond, Collibra is a global company built on trust and connection. We work fast, communicate openly, and stay grounded in our mission to make data , and now AI, meaningful for everyone.
Because at Collibra, trusted data isn’t the end goal — it’s where possibility begins.
Why Work With Us
Work here means showing up curious, clear, and ready to build with purpose. As data and AI reshape what’s possible, Collibrians bring clarity to complexity and care to how we work. The pace is fast and the work is meaningful— because every problem we solve powers possibility, as #OneCollibra.
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