(Senior) Backend Engineer

About the Role

At InterNations, you build for our members, for the hosts who bring them together at events, and for your own colleagues internally. We want you close to whoever you are building for: asking why a feature matters, challenging requirements, and shaping the solution.
 
Our engineering team architects, develops, and tests our products. As a Full-Stack Engineer, your mission is to build features end to end, from the browser to the database, on a platform that serves millions of views every month.
 
As a member of an international, cross-functional Product Experience Team (PXT), you work closely with your Product Manager to architect, implement, and ship concepts and upcoming changes. You will write automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests. You will take part in cross-team initiatives: architectural changes, refactoring, and best practices.
 
 
What we are looking for:

• Relevant experience across the stack: a backend language like PHP, Python, or Ruby and modern JavaScript or TypeScript, as we are working with PHP and TypeScript
• Experience with a modern web framework like Symfony, Laravel, Next.js, or React
• Hands-on experience using AI tools in your everyday engineering work
• Experience with automated testing on the unit, functional, and/or acceptance level
• An interest in big datasets in relational databases, search indexes, or key-value stores
• Excellent English, written and spoken, as it is our company language
• Strong communication skills and a self-motivator, used to working with multiple teams across disciplines in a fully remote setting

 
What we value:

• Bettering our skills, teaching each other and learning ways to build better software
• User testing, experimentation, automated testing, and continuous integration to gain meaningful feedback
• Fostering collaboration and cooperativeness

 
Technologies we use: PHP, Symfony, MariaDB, Solr, RabbitMQ, Redis, Memcached, Behat, PHPUnit, TypeScript, Next.js, React, TanStack Query, MUI
 
Where we work: We work fully remote and are looking for people based in Spain who already have the right to work there. Twice a year the whole team meets in person, travel and accommodation covered.
 
Sound interesting? Then send us your CV today!

About us

With over 6.1 million members in 420 cities worldwide, InterNations is the largest global community for people who live and work abroad. InterNations offers global and local networking and socializing, both online and face-to-face.

At around 4,000 events and activities per month, expatriates can meet other global minds and pursue their interests. Members can also find and exchange tips and information on life abroad through discussion forums and read helpful articles based on personal expat experiences. Membership is by approval only to ensure quality and trust in our community. 

You can find more information about InterNations on our about pages.

Benefits of working at InterNations:

• a growing, dynamic company with an international team

• work in a fully remote setting

• a company that is a Financial Climate Contributor with Climate Partner

• a friendly atmosphere and the space to pursue your ideas

• 30 paid vacation days + special paid leave

• the option to take a sabbatical after 3 years with InterNations

• part-time work contracts possible

• Albatross Membership for team members and their partners

• XING Premium membership

• regular team bonding events to connect teamies wherever they are

• regular workshops, training sessions, cross-departmental projects & exchanges

At InterNations, you’ll be working in a friendly atmosphere geared toward bringing out your creativity and independence. With our flat organizational structure, you’ll have lots of room to pursue your own ideas. If you’re a working parent, you’ll find the flexibility you need to support your work–life balance.

And as we value building strong connections between our team members, especially in a remote setting, you can look forward to language tandems, department exchanges, and regular team-bonding activities.