Senior PHP Developer

You’ll be joining the IT team at Verslo žinios, which consists of over 10 developers, QA specialists, a web designer, product managers, and the CTO. The entire team has 20 members in total. You will as Senior Level PHP Developer in a product-based environment with a very little legacy support and high focus on new product/ feature development. The team is actively leveraging modern AI tools (including Claude) in day-to-day development and holds a premium Claude Code subscription to enhance productivity, experimentation, and product innovation.

Recruitment process:

1. First, we start with an introductory conversation to get to know each other better, discuss your experience, and answer any initial questions.
2. Next, selected candidates are invited to a technical interview with a member of our development team, where we dive deeper into your technical skills and approach to problem-solving.
3. (Optional) as a final stage (if needed), we may ask you to complete a short technical task. This step is only used when there are open questions after the technical interview and helps us better understand your practical skills.

Job description:

• Take part and make decisions regarding new products and features for Verso Žinios, design, create and maintain new products from the very beginning.
• Play a key role in the development of IT products internationally.
• Carry out updates and new features for the current VZ products: vz.lt, rekvizitai.lt, infolex.lt, hrasistentas.lt and internal company’s systems running on PHP (Laravel).
• Work closely with fellow developers within the IT team of VZ, exchange ideas, new technologies, tools and AI-assisted development practices.
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies, AI tools, and Laravel framework updates to continuously improve applications while writing clean, testable and well thought out code.
• Demonstrate senior level knowledge when less experienced colleagues need a technical advice.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of PHP experience.
• The ability to build trust by proposing new technologies and work methodologies (seniors in our team have the opportunity to contribute to solutions not only with the code they write).
• Senior level experience with Laravel or Symfony (Laravel is preferred), SQL database.
• Understanding the principles of OOP, SOLID.
• Ability to be creative while being analytical.
• Experience using AI-powered development tools (e.g. Claude, GitHub Copilot) to improve productivity, code quality, and problem-solving.

Nice to have skills:

• Knowledge of Nginx, Redis and Elasticsearch.
• Experience with GIT.
• Unix CLI experience.
• Docker, docker-compose.
• VueJS (or any other FE framework experience would be a nice to have)
• Experience with big-data projects.
• API integrations with 3rd party services.

Company offers:

• Opportunity to improve and implement your ideas.
• Flexible work schedule: 3+2 (3 days in the office and 2 days remotely per week).
• Scandinavian-style, stress-free work in a dynamic international media company.
• Free participation in our conferences or selected training, subscription to our publications.
• Quarterly bonuses for goals achieved.
• Great office location with a tremendous view and free parking.
• Monthly salary of 4500 – 5800 EUR Gross.