Backend Engineer | Mid - Senior | PHP + Go | Payments Team

Full Time

hybrid

Backend

Vilnius / Kaunas

The world’s most advanced VPN, and a whole lot more.

If you’re a curious problem-solver who carves their own path, join the team behind Threat Protection Pro, the NordLynx protocol, and the fastest VPN on the planet—tools that put privacy, security, and control back in people’s hands.

Your impact? Helping millions take back control of their online security, privacy, and data.

Our Payment Team powers Nord Security’s global business. We build and maintain the systems behind secure, seamless payment experiences for users worldwide. Working with a broad network of international payment providers, we operate at a large scale and solve challenges tied to high-load environments, complex payment flows, and recurring subscription payments.

This is a place for engineers who thrive on tackling complex problems, designing resilient systems, and continuously improving their craft. You’ll build critical components that directly impact how customers pay and manage subscriptions for our globally trusted products.

If you’re looking for a team that values ownership, innovation, and technical excellence, you’ll feel right at home.

Main Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems in our Payments’ infrastructure;
Write high-quality code that is tested, maintainable, documented, and performs well under load;
Work with different payment methods from all around the world;
Integrate new service providers, each with its own code and functionality;
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes;
Collaborate with your team members, QA, DevOps, and security teams on day-to-day tasks;
Mentor colleagues and provide technical guidance when needed;
Perform R&D operations and find solutions to new and challenging problems we encounter;

Core Requirements

Proven experience working with PHP;
Experience working with Golang;
Proven experience building microservices and knowledge of microservices patterns;
Understanding of OOP principles and good code design;
Understanding of API design;
Good MySQL knowledge;
Experience working with Git;
Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, and Redis is a plus.

Tools You Will Use

PHP;
Golang;
MySQL;
Redis;
KeyDB;
RabbitMQ;
Docker;
Kubernetes;
ArgoCD;
Debezium;
OpenSearch/ElasticSearch;
Grafana.

Salary Range

Gross Salary 3200 - 7200 EUR/Month.

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