About the job
Location: Limassol
Work Model: Hybrid 2/3+ days/week from the office
About FlirtVentures
FlirtVentures is a fast-growing digital company focused on building innovative products in the online dating, social interaction, and relationship-tech space. We create platforms that help people connect in meaningful, engaging, and dynamic ways. With a data-driven approach and a passion for sleek user experiences, FlirtVentures brings modern technology into the world of human connection.
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced PHP Developer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will develop scalable backend systems, build new platform features, optimize performance, and collaborate closely with product, UX, and growth teams. You will contribute to the technical backbone powering millions of user interactions across our dating and social discovery products.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and enhance backend features for FlirtVentures platforms using PHP (preferably PHP 8+).
- Build scalable APIs and backend services supporting mobile and web clients.
- Collaborate with designers and product managers to deliver new matchmaking, messaging, and user-engagement features.
- Optimize application performance, database queries, and caching layers.
- Integrate third-party APIs and internal microservices.
- Write clean, secure, and testable code following modern PHP standards (PSR, OOP, MVC).
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to best-practice engineering culture.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
- Work with data teams to implement analytics, user-behavior tracking, A/B testing features, and recommendation logic.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional PHP development experience.
- Strong understanding of Laravel, Symfony, or similar modern PHP frameworks.
- Proficiency with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar relational databases.
- Experience integrating APIs and working with RESTful services.
- Familiarity with Redis, Memcached, or other caching systems.
- Understanding of application security, authentication, and user-data protection.
- Solid knowledge of Git workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, experiment-driven environment typical of growth-focused startups.
Nice to Have (not necessary)
- Experience with matchmaking logic, messaging systems, or real-time event-driven architectures.
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Background in high-traffic systems or large-scale consumer applications.
- Familiarity with front-end frameworks (Vue) is a plus.
- Understanding of user-behavior analytics for dating/social platforms.