Hello, we are looking for a Senior PHP Backend Developer for our eSports product.
We are a team of daring, innovative professionals. We are Cyberpunks, Cyber Jedi, and Pattern Breakers. Inspired by crazy ideas and a cool team, we create a quality product for the gaming industry and entertainment. We highly value intelligence, passion, and proactivity. We are constantly developing, and daily we struggle with routine and standards. We are changing the industry, changing the playing field so you can change the damn world.
Mission Brazy — To turn life into an interesting game!
Vision Brazy — To be one of the world leaders in the entertainment industry! Location: all over the world.
Current team: Product manager, Team Lead, QA Automation, Frontend, Backend Job Summary & Project Overview We are building a payment system that helps merchants accept payments via in-game skins. This is a product at the intersection of finance, gaming, and blockchain — we integrate with Steam, cryptocurrency networks, and payment providers to make transactions fast, secure, and user-friendly.
We are currently looking for a Senior PHP Backend Developer to join our team and help us: * Develop the fiat payment module: integrations with providers, transaction validation, and routing * Extend the crypto-processing module: implement deposits and withdrawals, manage fees, and confirmations * Systematically reduce technical debt: improve observability and architecture * Improve the internal admin panel used by support and operations teams * Design and implement a new version of the merchant dashboard
If you’re excited about building financial products where accuracy and security truly matter, you’ll feel at home here. We move fast, welcome new ideas, and value engineers who take ownership. Tech Stack * PHP 8.2 * Laravel 11 * PHPUnit, PHPStan, PHPMD, PHPMND, CS-Fixer, CodeSniffer * MySQL 8 (migrating to PostgreSQL) * Redis * Temporal * Grafana, Prometheus * Sentry * Kubernetes, Helm, Tekton * GitLab CI, Docker
Communication & Planning We collaborate via GitLab and Jira, communicate in Slack, and run meetings on Google Meet. What You’ll Do * Design the architecture of key components in the payment system * Develop and maintain internal and external APIs * Integrate with external services: payment providers, Steam API, blockchain networks * Collaborate with the team and product managers to clarify and finalize requirements before development starts * Ensure predictable system behavior in case of failures and errors * Implement telemetry, metrics, and tracing for key business flows * Participate in technical discussions * Reduce technical debt: refactor legacy modules, review outdated approaches * Take part in incident analysis and help improve system resilience * Maintain code quality through testing and code reviews
What We’re Looking For * Attention to detail and autonomy: you can own a task and drive it to completion * Ability to gather and refine requirements: you ask the right questions, clarify edge cases, and reduce rework * Experience designing scalable and reliable solutions with risk mitigation in mind * Ability to design resilient transactional flows and accurate accounting logic * Ability to understand unfamiliar codebases, identify issues, and propose optimal solutions * Willingness to take responsibility for technical decisions and their consequences * Ability to explain your technical choices clearly to both engineers and product stakeholders * Systems thinking: you consider how a task impacts the architecture and business * Ability to conduct thoughtful code reviews focused on stability, readability, and architectural alignment * Strong team collaboration skills * Commercial work experience — 4+ years * Higher or secondary vocational education in a technical field
Nice to HaveSteam ecosystem * Hands-on experience with the Steam economy: buying, selling, or trading via Steam Market or third-party platforms * Understanding of CS2, Dota 2, Rust item logic (trade locks, bans, fees, price mechanics) * Familiarity with Steam API: inventories, trades, rate limits, auth specifics
Payments & Crypto * Experience working with payment providers or financial infrastructure * Integration experience with crypto networks: send/receive, fee management, confirmations
Workflow Orchestration * Experience with Temporal or similar tools for managing complex business logic
Languages: — Ukrainian or Russian for communicating inside the team — English — for understanding technical documents
