Senior Full Stack Engineer - PHP

Creditstar Group is a rapidly growing international consumer finance company, headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia and operating in multiple European markets.

At the core, we are a financial technology company that uses automated processes, algorithms and data analysis to make financial instruments easily available to a population of more than 175 million people in our target markets. We are a team of ambitious professionals who value innovation, effective efficiency, high growth, and high performance. For more information on the group, please visit

Our vision is to build and deliver digital banking products of the future. If you want to be part of this, here is your chance.

YOUR POSITION: FULL STACK ENGINEER - PHP

YOUR ROLE:

We are looking for a solution-focused person, who is a great communicator and a team player. Your role is to participate in product and platform development - work closely with the revolving credit product team to develop new features, frameworks and detailed application designs on core architecture of the company’s backend system and develop and maintain scalable software solutions and high-quality web platforms that are built up automation in mind.

YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:

• Designing and coding our backend and frontend systems.
• Solving technical challenges and fixing bugs.
• Follow and maintain coding standards and best practices.
• Conduct functionality testing and write automated tests..
• Define and document technical solutions and best practices.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Extensive experience with modern PHP, with the ability to leverage the strengths of the language.
• Good analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
• You have a strong passion for technology and love to code.
• You have worked with relational databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL before.
• You thrive in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment. You are self-motivated and proactive, able to work independently in a fully remote team setup.
• Proven ownership mindset—taking initiative, solving problems proactively, and driving solutions forward.

NICE TO HAVE:

• Experience with the Yii2 framework is a plus.
• Experience with NodeJS is a plus.
• Experience with React or other major JavaScript frameworks.
• Financial service development background.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• You love optimization and the beauty of automation.

TOOL STACK:

• PHP, Yii2, HTML/CSS, Javascript, Typescript, PostgreSQL
• React, Nodejs, Jquery
• Docker
• Atlassian products
• Datadog, Sentry
• AWS