Workplace: Warsaw
At PayPo, we are shaping the future of digital payments. As a leading fintech company, we address the evolving demands of a world increasingly reliant on online transactions. Our innovative Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services are setting new industry standards.
We have experienced dynamic growth over several years, earning the trust of over 2 million customers and partnering with 60,000 stores, including major Polish e-commerce brands like LPP group (Reserved, Mohito, Sinsay), eobuwie, and Media Expert. In 2025 alone, we successfully processed 22.5 million transactions.
Our team comprises talented specialists dedicated to finding innovative solutions and ensuring the highest quality of service for our customers and partners. We are actively seeking a skilled PHP Engineer to join our backend team, focusing on customer verification. This is a critical technological area at PayPo, directly influencing our business's security and regulatory compliance.
Key Responsibilities
You will contribute to systems responsible for:
- AML (Anti-Money Laundering) processes, including customer identity verification and adherence to regulatory requirements.
- Integrations with external databases, connecting to various sources and registers for real-time customer data verification.
- Card transactions, ensuring secure and efficient processing of card payments.
The systems you help build will directly impact transaction security at a rapidly expanding business scale, handling 22.5 million transactions annually. Our current team includes a Product Owner, PHP Technical Leader, 4 PHP Developers, an Analyst, and an Automation Tester. You will be instrumental in designing, implementing, and evolving modular, microservice-based, and scalable solutions, significantly influencing the architecture, quality, and performance of systems used by millions of customers and thousands of partner stores.
If you are seeking an environment where cutting-edge technology drives rapid business growth and offers a tangible impact on product security, PayPo is the place for you.
Your Main Tasks
- Design and develop systems utilizing PHP 8+ and Symfony 6+.
- Analyze business requirements and assess their impact on system architecture.
- Design, build, and evolve microservices, including integration with external APIs.
- Optimize system performance, code quality, and architecture.
- Maintain and refactor existing code to ensure optimal performance, quality, and adherence to best practices.
- Build and integrate event-driven applications (e.g., RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, Webhooks).
- Demonstrate strong proficiency in SQL (MySQL 8+) and NoSQL for query optimization and data modeling.
- Possess practical experience with Docker in daily development workflows.
- Apply expertise in web application design principles.
- Design, version, and secure APIs (REST, OAuth, JWT).
- Utilize data caching mechanisms (Redis, AWS ElastiCache) and application profiling techniques.
- Exhibit strong knowledge of Git.
- Apply practical understanding of layered and hexagonal architecture (ports and adapters).
- Work with AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Employ static code analysis tools (PHPStan, CSFixer).
- Understand CI/CD concepts and practices.
- Perform unit, functional, integration, and E2E tests (PHPUnit).
- Utilize development support tools such as PHPStorm, Composer, Xdebug, Sentry, Jira.
- Integrate AI tools like Claude Code into daily development.
Nice to Have
- Experience in customer verification, AML/KYC, or the fintech sector.
- Familiarity with container orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes).
- Experience working with agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
- Knowledge of application security best practices (OWASP).
Competency Requirements
- Ability for logical and creative thinking.
- Knowledge and experience in applying best practices, concepts, and design patterns in daily coding.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles.
- Self-reliance and excellent self-organization skills.
- Commitment and willingness to share knowledge within the team.
Formal Requirements
- Minimum of 3 years of commercial programming experience.
- Fluent proficiency in Polish (advanced or native level).
- Proficiency in English sufficient for communication with international partners.
Benefits
- Co-financing for sports activities
- Private medical care
- Co-financing for language learning
- Co-financing for training and courses
- Life insurance
- Remote work possibility
- Flexible working hours
- Fruits
- Discounts on company products and services
- Integration meetings
Salary Range
UoP: 19,000 - 22,000 PLN gross
B2B: 19,000 - 22,000 PLN net
Candidates can choose between B2B or UoP contract types. This is a full-time position with remote or hybrid work options.
Please be informed that:
The administrator of your personal data is PayPo sp. z o.o. ul. Domaniewska 39, 02-672 Warszawa, hereinafter referred to as the "Administrator".
Regarding the protection of your personal data, you can contact the Data Protection Officer (hereinafter "DPO") at the e-mail address: [email protected] or in writing to our registered office address indicated in point I.
III. We will process your data:
- in the case of a candidate – a natural person conducting business activity, in the scope of: name and surname, contact details, education, professional qualifications and course of previous employment, and other data provided in the CV, form, cover letter and other documents for the purpose of conducting the recruitment process. The basis for processing the above-mentioned personal data is taking action at the request of the data subject before concluding a contract (Art. 6 para. 1 b GDPR),
- in the case of a candidate – a natural person not conducting sole proprietorship, for the purpose of conducting the recruitment process, based on the authorization resulting from Art. 22¹ of the Labor Code, in the scope of: name and surname, date of birth, contact details, education, professional qualifications and course of previous employment. The basis for processing the above-mentioned personal data is a legal obligation (Art. 6 para. 1 c GDPR),
- in the case of a candidate – a natural person not conducting sole proprietorship, for the purpose of taking action at the request of the data subject before concluding a contract (Art. 6 para. 1 b GDPR),
- in the case of a candidate – a natural person not conducting sole proprietorship, for the purpose of conducting the recruitment process, based on your consent to the processing of your personal data, i.e., personal data other than those indicated in the point above, provided in the CV, form, cover letter and other documents. The legal basis for processing is the aforementioned consent (Art. 6 para. 1 a GDPR),
- for the purpose of realizing the legitimate interest of the administrator in the scope of data obtained from you during the recruitment process in connection with checking your skills and abilities necessary for work in the position specified in the announcement. The legal basis for processing your data is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 f GDPR),
- for the purpose of realizing the legitimate interest of the administrator in the event of a legal need to demonstrate facts, demonstrate the fulfillment of obligations. The legal basis for processing these data is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 f GDPR),
- for the purpose of conducting future recruitment processes, based on your consent to the processing of personal data provided in the CV, form, cover letter and other documents. The legal basis for processing is this consent (Art. 6 para. 1 a GDPR).
In accordance with GDPR, you have the right to request access to your personal data and receive a copy thereof, the right to request their rectification (correction), erasure or restriction of processing, as well as the right to data portability and the right to withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing (if processing is based on consent) carried out on the basis of consent before its withdrawal.
You have the right to object at any time to the processing of data processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 f GDPR, indicated above in point III.
The above requests can be sent to the addresses indicated in points I-II.
Furthermore, in accordance with GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Personal Data Protection Office.
Data retention period
- in the scope indicated in point III. 1-6, your data will be stored for a period of 30 days from the end of this recruitment,
- in the scope indicated in point III. 7, your personal data will be stored for a period of 12 months from the date of expressing consent.
Your personal data may be transferred to processors who provide services to the Administrator based on concluded entrustment agreements (IT service providers, including hosting services and services supporting HR processes, as well as recruitment portal operators).
VII. Providing personal data is voluntary, but it is a condition for participation in recruitment. In the case of a candidate – a natural person not conducting sole proprietorship, we require the provision of data specified in Art. 22¹ of the Labor Code; providing other data is voluntary.
VIII. Your personal data will not be transferred to a third country (i.e., a country outside the European Economic Area) nor to an international organization.
We inform you that in the recruitment process, we do not make decisions in an automated manner, including profiling.