Senior Backend Engineer (all genders) - PHP

Urban Sports Club

MEET URBAN SPORTS CLUB We are among the leading platforms for sports and wellness in Europe, dedicated to inspiring people to live active, healthy lives. With just one membership we offer access to thousands of fitness and wellness experiences across the continent. But what truly sets us apart? We believe our people are at the heart of everything we do. If you’re curious about how we work, what we value and how you might grow with us, explore our Culture Hub & Career Opportunities. *Big news: Wellhub and Urban Sports Club unite!* Urban Sports Club is now a proud part of Wellhub, creating a global wellbeing ecosystem. Together, we connect 39,000 corporate clients and 97,000 wellness partners across 18 countries, offering millions of people even more ways to stay active and take care of their health. THE OPPORTUNITY  We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our Foundation Engineering team. In this role, you won't just be building features for a single product; You will be crafting the very core services that power the entire Urban Sports Club ecosystem. The Foundation team sits at the heart of our engineering organization. We are responsible for application-level, system-wide services that enable our multi-million user base to interact with our platform seamlessly. Your initial focus will be taking ownership of our critical Identity & Authentication services and our core Search backend, with exciting plans to architect and scale a centralized Notification service in the near future. You will act as a force multiplier for our entire engineering department. By designing highly scalable, secure, and performant internal APIs and services, you will enable other product teams to build fast and deliver value to our users. If you love deep-diving into system design, solving complex architectural challenges at the application level, and working with Golang, this is the perfect place for you. This position will be based in Valencia, Spain. WHAT YOU WILL DO * Own Core System Services: Architect, develop, and maintain high-throughput, application-level foundational services, focusing initially on identity/authentication and our core search backend service. * Drive Technical Evolution: Design and implement future shared services that support our vision for scaling the platform. * Enable Engineering Teams: Build clean, robust, and well-documented internal APIs and developer tools that empower other product teams to build features rapidly and securely. * Write Exceptional Code: Deliver highly testable, maintainable, and secure Golang code, taking full operational ownership of the components your team develops. * Foster Best Practices: Actively participate in the Urban Sports Club backend cluster, championing strong system design, modularized architecture, and automated testing across the company. * Collaborate Across Boundaries: Work closely with product owners, tech leads, and other engineering teams to understand their requirements and translate them into scalable, domain-agnostic solutions. WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED * You have extensive industry experience as a Senior Backend Engineer developing, optimizing, and troubleshooting large-scale applications written in Go (6+ years) * You have a solid understanding of (or direct experience with) core foundational services like Identity/Authentication protocols (e.g., Keycloak, OAuth2, OIDC) and search engines. * You possess a deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed system design. You know how to build modular, high-volume services that remain performant under heavy traffic. * You have a track record of designing clean, secure, and developer-friendly internal APIs that scale across multiple engineering teams. * You are comfortable working within cloud ecosystems (GCP/AWS) from an application perspective, understanding how to leverage cloud-managed services efficiently. * You break down complex, abstract problems into elegant software solutions. You communicate effectively with technical stakeholders and love mentoring others. * Experience with PHP is a nice-to-have. We have some legacy context here, so a familiarity with PHP helps if you need to understand existing logic during modernizations or integrations - but your primary daily weapon will be Go. * You engage, inspire, and motivate the people you work with. We like to have fun while building the backbone of a platform that inspires healthy living. WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU  * Work on cutting-edge tech and influence the future of our stack: explore our Tech Radar * We're open to relocation and providing support with our visa agency * Free Urban Sports Club L Pro Membership + Friends and Family Discount: Stay active with free membership, plus discounts for friends and family. * Flexible Work Model: Enjoy a hybrid work setup, balancing on-site and remote work options to fit your lifestyle. * Extended Remote Work Options: Work up to 120 days remotely within the EU, the UK, and Switzerland, including 30 days outside the EU. You’ll also have the option to desk-swap at our other European offices. * WorkOUT Life Balance: Take advantage of 30 days of paid vacation annually, plus two additional days for volunteering, flexible working hours, and complimentary access to our mental health provider Open Up. * Personal Development: Receive an annual budget of €1,000 for professional growth, with regular internal training sessions and weekly German and English language classes. * Engaging Team Culture: Participate in regular team and company events along with wellness initiatives that help you stay productive, healthy, and engaged in a hybrid work environment. Urban Sports Club is committed to providing a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone who applies for a position or already works with us, regardless of their sports preferences, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, or religion (or lack thereof).

RECUP

DEINE MISSION We're building the next-generation backend that powers Germany's largest reusable-packaging network - a circular-economy deposit-return system live across 17,000+ locations. It's a two-track hybrid modernisation (brown and greenfield), cloud-native, event-driven TypeScript platform that runs real-world operational logistics: partners, point-of-sale, returns, billing, and fulfillment at national scale, expanding internationally.  You'll join as a (senior) engineer (all genders) with real ownership: designing, building and own core services and working directly with our technical lead and peers on architecture. This is not a ticket-taking role - you'll shape the system, not just implement against it.    What you'll do:  * Design, build and own core platform services: partner management, point-of-sale, billing and invoicing, returns, fulfillment, and contract management * Build event-driven, async-heavy integrations between services and external systems -outbox patterns, queues, retries, dead-letter handling * Help drive our international expansion * Partner with the technical lead on architectural decisions, data modelling, and the incremental extraction of capabilities from our existing platform into the new one * Set the engineering bar-testing, observability, and operational readiness baked in from day one   Our stack: * Language: PHP (7.1) (current),TypeScript (Nextdirection) * Framework: Shopware 5.3 and NestJS * Data: Mariadb, PostgreSQL + Prisma * Cloud: Google CloudPlatform - Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks * AI: Claude (Code, Chat and Cowork) * APIs: REST * Platform: GCP * Existing platform (you'll learn its domain): PHP / Shopware the current production system we're incrementally extracting from. WAS DU MITBRINGST * 7–10 years of backend engineering, with deep production experience in Node.js, TypeScript and substantial hands-on NestJS in production plus ability to work with legacy PP2 (PHP) code * Strong system design and execution - you've designed distributed, async/queue-heavy systems and shipped them, not just white-boarded them * Solid relational data modelling and SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL ideally) * Comfortable owning a problem end-to-end: design, build, test, ship, operate * As English is our work language, English language proficiency at minimum C1 level is necessary * EU work permission * Munich-based. This is a hybrid role: 2 days/week in our Munich office, rest remote Working with AI coding agents (a real part of this role)  We use AI coding agents (Claude Code) every day as a core part of how we build. We expect you to as well. Concretely, we're looking for someone who:  * has shipped production code with an AI coding agent, * can describe their workflow - how they spec, prompt, review, and integrate agent output, * has informed opinions on where agents fail and how they guard against it (review discipline, tests, architectural guardrails) This isn't a buzzword for us - it's how the team works, and our hiring process reflects it (below).    Nice to have  * Event-driven/ CQRS /outboxexperience * Google CloudPlatform * Migrationorlegacy-extractionexperience(incrementallyreplacinganoldersystem) * Comfortablereadingunfamiliarorlegacycodebases How we hire  * First Interview with People & Organisation (~25 minutes) - We want to get to know you better in a first meeting and you will get to know RECUP's culture, values and vision and understand yourself better for a mutual fit * Meet Hiring Manager (Tech Leader) (~25 minutes) - Understand the RECUP platform from a technical perspective * Our take-home case (~55 minutes) is AI-agent-assisted by design - use your preferred agent, as you would on the job. We don't test memorized syntax; we assess engineering judgment: how you specify work, catch and correct the agent, and make architectural decisions. Expect a brief take-home plus a live pairing and design session * Meet the Team (Tech Lead and Engineer) + live AI coding session (extension of our take-home test) (~55 minutes) - Experience working with your new team. * Meet our Co-CEO (~25 minutes) - Gain insight into our product and business WAS WIR BIETEN * The opportunity to make an impact at a company that combines economic growth with real, sustainable impact * Flexible working models (flexible hours, remote work) * Room for development and ownership: you actively shape your area * A personal, professional culture and open feedback culture * A dynamic, growth-oriented environment in a scale-up phase * Partnerships with Wellpass, Urban Sports Club, Open Up and Future Bens You can find all our benefits on our jobs page.  Want to help us write reusable packaging history?  Then we look forward to your application: send us a short, punchy cover letter and your CV via the application form. What matters to us are your skills, your experience and above all whether you identify with our values and company culture. Since we too are not entirely free from unconscious biases, we kindly ask you not to include a photo. Where can we still improve?  We want to become more diverse because we believe that we can only achieve our vision through diversity, and that innovation can only emerge through diversity. We therefore welcome applications from people with international backgrounds, people of all gender identities, all age groups, people of color, and people with disabilities or chronic illness.

Urban Sports Club

MEET URBAN SPORTS CLUB We are among the leading platforms for sports and wellness in Europe, dedicated to inspiring people to live active, healthy lives. With just one membership we offer access to thousands of fitness and wellness experiences across the continent. But what truly sets us apart? We believe our people are at the heart of everything we do. If you’re curious about how we work, what we value and how you might grow with us, explore our Culture Hub & Career Opportunities. *Big news: Wellhub and Urban Sports Club unite!* Urban Sports Club is now a proud part of Wellhub, creating a global wellbeing ecosystem. Together, we connect 39,000 corporate clients and 97,000 wellness partners across 18 countries, offering millions of people even more ways to stay active and take care of their health. THE OPPORTUNITY  We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our Foundation Engineering team. In this role, you won't just be building features for a single product; You will be crafting the very core services that power the entire Urban Sports Club ecosystem. The Foundation team sits at the heart of our engineering organization. We are responsible for application-level, system-wide services that enable our multi-million user base to interact with our platform seamlessly. Your initial focus will be taking ownership of our critical Identity & Authentication services and our core Search backend, with exciting plans to architect and scale a centralized Notification service in the near future. You will act as a force multiplier for our entire engineering department. By designing highly scalable, secure, and performant internal APIs and services, you will enable other product teams to build fast and deliver value to our users. If you love deep-diving into system design, solving complex architectural challenges at the application level, and working with Golang, this is the perfect place for you. This position will be based in Berlin. WHAT YOU WILL DO * Own Core System Services: Architect, develop, and maintain high-throughput, application-level foundational services, focusing initially on identity/authentication and our core search backend service. * Drive Technical Evolution: Design and implement future shared services that support our vision for scaling the platform. * Enable Engineering Teams: Build clean, robust, and well-documented internal APIs and developer tools that empower other product teams to build features rapidly and securely. * Write Exceptional Code: Deliver highly testable, maintainable, and secure Golang code, taking full operational ownership of the components your team develops. * Foster Best Practices: Actively participate in the Urban Sports Club backend cluster, championing strong system design, modularized architecture, and automated testing across the company. * Collaborate Across Boundaries: Work closely with product owners, tech leads, and other engineering teams to understand their requirements and translate them into scalable, domain-agnostic solutions. WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED * You have extensive industry experience as a Senior Backend Engineer developing, optimizing, and troubleshooting large-scale applications written in Go (6+ years) * You have a solid understanding of (or direct experience with) core foundational services like Identity/Authentication protocols (e.g., Keycloak, OAuth2, OIDC) and search engines. * You possess a deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed system design. You know how to build modular, high-volume services that remain performant under heavy traffic. * You have a track record of designing clean, secure, and developer-friendly internal APIs that scale across multiple engineering teams. * You are comfortable working within cloud ecosystems (GCP/AWS) from an application perspective, understanding how to leverage cloud-managed services efficiently. * You break down complex, abstract problems into elegant software solutions. You communicate effectively with technical stakeholders and love mentoring others. * Experience with PHP is a nice-to-have. We have some legacy context here, so a familiarity with PHP helps if you need to understand existing logic during modernizations or integrations - but your primary daily weapon will be Go. * You engage, inspire, and motivate the people you work with. We like to have fun while building the backbone of a platform that inspires healthy living. WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU  * Work on cutting-edge tech and influence the future of our stack: explore our Tech Radar * We're open to relocation and providing support with our visa agency * Free Urban Sports Club L Pro Membership + Friends and Family Discount: Stay active with free membership, plus discounts for friends and family. * Flexible Work Model: Enjoy a hybrid work setup, balancing on-site and remote work options to fit your lifestyle. * Extended Remote Work Options: Work up to 120 days remotely within the EU, the UK, and Switzerland, including 30 days outside the EU. You’ll also have the option to desk-swap at our other European offices. * WorkOUT Life Balance: Take advantage of 30 days of paid vacation annually, plus two additional days for volunteering, flexible working hours, and complimentary access to our mental health provider Open Up. * Personal Development: Receive an annual budget of €1,000 for professional growth, with regular internal training sessions and weekly German and English language classes. * Engaging Team Culture: Participate in regular team and company events along with wellness initiatives that help you stay productive, healthy, and engaged in a hybrid work environment. Urban Sports Club is committed to providing a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone who applies for a position or already works with us, regardless of their sports preferences, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, or religion (or lack thereof).