Senior PHP Backend Programmer (Pardubice)

You should

Have 10+ years of PHP programming experience.
Have advanced knowledge of relational databases - ideally PostgreSQL.
Have more advanced knowledge of Linux on servers.
Have experience with application deployment - Gitlab CI.
Be communicative, fair, empathetic and know how to lead a small team of developers.
Wanting to be a driver of development and not being afraid of responsibility (code quality, application stability) and innovation.
Ideally, you should have experience from a more modern SaaS startup or company and know how it works in such a company not only in terms of development.

You will be in this position

Program new features, enhance and develop existing Freelo backend API code.
Solve the speed of the app and the convenience of users.
Have refactoring time and quality code.
Fix bugs and help others in the team with support.
Thinking about security and scaling (we are currently preparing to move to the cloud).
Use PHP (currently 8.1), Nette, Gitlab.
Constantly learn something new. Training and courses at your discretion.
Part of a small team that competes with giants like Basecamp or Trello.
Duly rewarded.

Report from the Croatian Freelo Hackathon 2021

I want to work in Freelo

The result of your work will be

Satisfied existing (and new) Freelo users.
New features in Freelo that ask for user feedback.
Positive feedback from thousands of users who use Freelo every day.
Better, faster and safer applications.

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Remuneration, time, place

We discuss the remuneration with each individual, based on their knowledge, experience, and results.
We'll add a significant financial incentive component to the salary, paid twice a year, which is directly linked to how the product is doing.
We are looking for a full-time person.
You will work in offices in the center of Pardubice with easy parking. Around the corner is a pool, gym, or park .
By appointment and after incorporation, a partial home-office is possible. We are not looking for anyone just on the remote.

”I enjoy developing a tool that I also use on a daily basis. In other words, Freelo is what keeps our entire team afloat. We organize all our work through it, discuss tasks, track time, etc. This puts even the developer in the role of a user and he quickly learns to work with Freelo and understands its philosophy. I'm certainly motivated by the fact that users themselves influence improvements to existing features and the creation of new ones, and often write about new features themselves and take an active interest in Freelo's development. Then you can be sure that what you program will always have a use and you know that it will make the daily work of many teams a little bit easier. From a programmer's point of view, it is important for me that we write clean code and test it using unit tests. The important business logic is then covered by integration tests. We use PHPStan static analysis and CodeSniffer helps us comb the code. We take care of the correct development principles and we pay attention to code review. We try to keep the technology debt as low as possible and update regularly to the latest PHP versions and libraries used. As the number of users grows, we address application speed optimizations. Typical: ”Tomorrow it has to be done, the client is pushing” , fortunately there is no threat and so nothing is unnecessarily stitched with a hot needle. We are still testing the new features in advance (final user testing) on our development server and debugging the last bugs and bugs.”

Jakub Sedlařík
Backend programmer

I want to work in Freelo

What you'll have under your thumb

We handle approximately 30,000 user activity daily.
We will send about 110,000 notification emails per week.
We embark on 1,000 new Freelo users every month.
In a year, our Timetracking will track people with 345,904 working hours .

”We are a small team at Freelo, but we stick together all the more, and not just at work. Over the years of development, Freelo has grown to become a recognized solution for team communication. There are hundreds of companies dealing with their agenda in it every day, so it's extremely important that everything works as it should. And that's primarily my job. I need you to not be afraid to ask questions, be able to collaborate to find the best solution, and follow through (deploy to production, fix bugs, and develop features).”

Karel Borkovec
Lead programmer and co-founder of Freelo

I want to work in Freelo

What we do to make our work more enjoyable

Positional tables for a healthy spine.
Quality coffee from the coffee machine.
3 hours for sport per week within working hours - gym, tabata, running (all voluntary of course).
Gathering together - barbecue, breakfast and lunch, board games, chat, drinks...
Dog-friendly office.
... and most importantly, a great group that will make you happy to come to the office!

Why you will enjoy it

We operate on continuous delivery . We strive for the shortest feedback loop so that what you are programming today can appear on the monitor on the same day.
Freelo we are agile and we determine the overall direction based on a large amount of user feedback and meaningfulness for the product itself.
Transparent and friendly atmosphere - we celebrate success and solve problems together.
We are a free business where every opinion is important .
Together we go to various offline events and meetings (Reshoper, Czech-online expo, Shopcamp, Barcamps, SaaSkaři - we are the founders of meetup…).
A few times a year we go on a #Freelohackathon where we focus on a specific part of Freelo that we are working on. For example, here's a blogpost from the last one in Croatia where we took our families and partners.
We record Podpalubí podcast with Czech business captains (eg author Nette David Grudl, Petr Šimůnek of Forbes and others.
We have offices in Pardubice in a villa near Pernstein Square with seamless parking , around the corner is swimming pool, gym or park .
We're looking for someone to be with us most of the time in the office. Partial homeoffice is not a problem after training, but we're not looking for anyone at this position just remotely.
The infrastructure runs on our own servers with the latest Debian , managed by an administrator. Knowledge of these technologies is an advantage, not a precondition - everything you will learn from us gradually . We do not resist new technologies and innovations.
We code using code tests in Codeception, using PHPStan and CodeSniffer .