SENIOR BACK-END DEVELOPER

SUN FINANCE is a Riga-based fintech company providing financial services across four continents. Founded in 2017, we’ve grown beyond the startup phase—but we’ve kept its energy and innovation, now strengthened by stability and a great work environment.

Our success-driven team thrives on collaboration, ambition, and shared growth. And we’re not slowing down. Join us and be part of what’s next!

IT team consists of 80+ professionals across 10 different teams, working with 10+ products. They are cross-functional, self-sufficient, and highly autonomous teams led by supporting and inspirational leaders. You will work in a full-stack team with colleagues like Service support specialists, QAs, Back-End, Front-End, Product Owner, and Team lead. Our stable processes will allow you to focus on your tasks and receive as much support as you need. We have varieties of different tasks (bug fixes, refactoring, different integrations, packages, and services creation and much more). 

PHP 8.2, Laminas as main framework, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, AWS services , Kubernates, CircleCI, GitHub, Microservices (Symfony), Kong, RabbitMQ as main message broker, RESTFULL API, OpenSearch and Grafana for real-time monitoring and much more.

• Help identify areas of improvement in the codebase and help contribute to making it better
• Fix any prioritized bug/issues tracked within the platforms
• Get a very good onboarding process (from a technical and domain perspective). If you don’t know anything about finances you will have a chance to learn it
• Be able to work with the list of modern services like payment systems, credit bureaus, fraud systems, AWS services, etc
• Be able to use your previous experience and offer something new - we are open to new ideas

• At least 4 years experience with PHP
• Experience with Symfony Framework
• Experience working with ORM - preferably Doctrine (a strong understanding of relational databases)
• Experience building REST / RPC APIs
• Experience with RabbitMQ
• Experience with Docker
• Some experience with micro-services (event-driven)
• Strong emphasis on testing

As advantage

• Experience building projects in “Domain Driven Design” fashion
• Experience with PostgreSQL
• Experience with Elasticsearch
• Experience with Apache Kafka
• Experience with Finance
• Experience building your own pipelines (e.g. CircleCI, Github Actions, Jenkins, etc)

• Hybrid work arrangements allowing to combine work from home and office
• Flexible working hours start as late as 10 am
• Health insurance
• Well-being activities, surprises, and birthday gifts (sporty challenges, mini competitions with prizes)
• Supporting self-driven learning (i.e., paid conference fees, relevant Udemy courses etc)
• Receive bonuses for long-term cooperation like extra holidays, etc.
• Free coffee & soft drinks to fuel those tough mornings
• Variety of snacks and soups at the kitchen
• Enjoy the private gym
• Learn and grow in a company of over 10 nationalities
• No suits! Unless it's Carnival or Halloween
• Salary range 2900-5000 EUR gross depending on work experience and skills