Backend Engineer | Mid-Senior | PHP | NordLayer

At NordLayer, we’re building cybersecurity that scales with the business.

A toggle-ready platform that helps modern teams thrive—without the security headaches. Trusted by 11,000+ global companies, NordLayer plugs into any tech stack and protects users across borders.

Your impact? Helping businesses stay protected and moving forward with future-ready network security.

The newly created Endpoint Protection Squad builds highly secure management tools to support our enterprise device and threat teams in protecting users and devices across the organization. We deliver features via rich UI and backend services that span everything from app lifecycle to device posture and threat reporting.

• App Versioning Engine — Tracks active application versions, marks deprecated ones for sunset, and displays in-app warnings to prompt updates
• Download Protection Platform — Combines CP UI and backend logic to scan downloads, generate threat reports, and visualize findings
• Device Security Posture Module — Runs rule‑based evaluations, generates alerts, enforces device blocking or review workflows, and provides posture dashboards
• Centralized Policy & App Setting Enforcement — In collaboration with native apps teams, we implement enforcement of organizational settings and configurations from a unified management console
• Enterprise Browser Settings & Reporting UI — Enables administrators to control and monitor browser configuration policies across the user base
  
  
  
  
  

Team composition:This team is being hired almost completely from scratch in Warsaw or remote in Poland. The planned team structure includes Tech Lead (transitions from another team), 3 BE Engineers (1 Senior, 2 Mids), 2 FE Engineers (1 Senior, 1 Mid).

Overall, NordLayer’s team consists of 250+ employees, spread across Lithuania (Vilnius and Kaunas), Poland (Warsaw and remote), Germany (Berlin).

Main responsibilities:

• Expand and improve our codebase by writing clean, quality PHP code supported by automated tests;
• Prioritize security in all development work to ensure robust and safe solutions;
• Advocate for good coding practices, continuous delivery, and technical excellence;
• Initiate and champion new technologies and development processes to enhance team capabilities;
• Unify workflows, frameworks, and practices across teams to streamline operations
  
  
  
  
  

Core requirements:

• 4+ years (for middle level engineer) OR 6+ years (for senior level engineer) of experience in software development, primarily in PHP;
• Fluency in Symfony;
• Understanding of OOP principles & good code design;
• Previous experience in building highly scalable systems;
• Knowledge of API design and good MySQL practices with experience handling big data quantities;
• Familiarity with Docker, RabbitMQ, Redis, and version control using Git
• B2 or higher level of English
  
  
  
  
  

Would be a plus:

• Experience working in Microservices;
• Knowledge in CQRS;
• Experience working in product environments developing highly loaded complex software systems
  
  
  
  
  

Technologies You Will Use:

• PHP 8;
• Symfony;
• Go (small modules);
• Redis;
• SLIM;
• GitLab;
• MySQL;
• Eloquent ORM
  
  
  
  
  

Salary Range:

17100-32900 PLN gross/month (employment contract)

17100-32900 PLN/Month + VAT (B2B contract)