Backend Engineer - Laravel/PHP

Salary Competitive

We love being productive with Laravel.


Our application is a web-oriented SaaS platform, built for serving clients all over the globe. It comprises of several parts: backend, frontend, mobile and enterprise integrations. Our backend is load-balanced and designed for scalability and reliability. Our frontend is a modern SPA, geo-distributed and UX-focussed. Our mobile apps run with native speed and are easily installable from app stores. We regularly reuse, adjust and invent web architectures, incorporating cutting edge technologies like

- event server pushing

- serverless functions

- hybrid SQL/No-SQL datalakes

- distributed processing

to get the job done. Our team members are community role models for the respectively used frameworks.


You’re a kick-ass engineer who sets the standard of doing the job. You report to the CTO on the work progress and coordinate daily with the web team lead. You’ll also work closely with product designers to have their work matched up with technical solutions. Occasionally you’ll participate with customer success managers and their clients to address the needs of key enterprise accounts.


Your Responsibilities

  • Participate in early phases of product design & development

  • Plan and estimate backend functionality

  • Hands-on development of APIs in Laravel

Your Qualifications

  • Deep know-how of Laravel

  • Solid understanding of object-orientation concepts & abstractions with PHP

  • Solid understanding of concurrent and distributed systems principles, with at least job queue systems

  • Solid understanding of building, interacting with and optimizing MySQL databases

  • Solid understanding of building, interacting with and optimizing MongoDB and/or Elasticsearch

  • Solid understanding of quality assurance principles (e.g. linting, unit testing, feature testing, end-to-end testing, non-functional requirements assurance) and the use of continuous integration concepts (test automation)

  • Solid technical planning and effort estimation

Your Application

Please address and tailor your resume to Dr. Viet Yen Nguyen, CTO. Our hiring process generally proceeds in three phases: orientation-phase with at least two interviews, followed by a testing-phase with a coding, aptitude and personality tests and concluded by an offer-phase with an overall evaluation.


Start date: December 2019 or January 2020


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Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free lunch
Free lunch

Enjoy a free catered lunch with your colleagues, every day.

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Free friday beers
Free friday beers

Friday is something special, let's enjoy a beer together.

Central office
Central office

Your local office is your anchor point, thus, we placed it centrally at your convenience.

Working at
Hypefactors

At Hypefactors, we work together designing and building the best software tools for media-savvy business professionals across the globe. Our software is exciting, beautiful, data-intense and smart. And our unique big data offering and advanced AI-based analyses create big business impact for our users. Founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, we've formed a small-knitted international team of about 20 people representing over 10 nationalities across the globe. We are unified by the same drivers: passion, diversity and excellence.

Read more about Hypefactors

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