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Senior Software (Back-End) Engineer for Setapp
- Remote available
- Full Time
MacPaw is a software company that develops and distributes software for macOS and iOS. Today, we have 20 million active users across all our products.
At MacPaw, we believe humans and technology can reach their greatest potential together.
MacPaw is proud to be Ukrainian. The support and development of Ukraine are significant parts of the company’s culture. MacPaw gathers open-minded people who support each other and aspire to change the world around us.
For This Role
MacPaw is building the next generation of its Setapp Marketplace—a platform where developers distribute Mac, iOS, and Web applications to a wide audience around the world. Billing is at the core of this platform, powering how customers pay, how vendors earn, and how the business scales globally.
We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (PHP+Go) to join our team and work on subscription and billing-related functionality within a product environment.
You’ll work with complex business logic, third-party integrations, and existing systems, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams. We’re looking for someone curious, proactive, and responsible who enjoys learning, taking ownership, and improving solutions.
In this role, you will:
- Analyze business ideas, validate technical feasibility, and design architecture blueprints before starting the development phase
- Write clean, efficient, and scalable code using PHP (Symfony) and Go
- Gradually refactor and migrate parts of the monolith into independent, high-performance services
- Take full responsibility for code quality by writing Unit/Functional tests and actively participating in E2E testing (our engineers drive quality alongside QA)
- Work closely with PMs, EMs, and cross-functional teams to clarify requirements, handle edge cases, and find the most effective implementation paths
Skills you’ll need to bring:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with PHP and strong knowledge of PHP fundamentals (OOP, namespaces, Composer)
- Hands-on experience with Symfony (routing, controllers, services, configuration) and integrating third-party bundles/libraries
- System Design & Architecture
- Confident work with PostgreSQL/relational databases: schema design, complex SQL queries, migrations, and performance optimization (indexes, profiling)
- Experience with Docker in development and runtime environments; ability to work with Docker images/containers and Docker Compose locally
- Experience with RabbitMQ (or similar message queues): pub/sub and work queue patterns, producers/consumers, basic configuration concepts
- Basic understanding of Kubernetes concepts and common objects (Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps)
- CI/CD pipelines and basic understanding of cloud or infrastructure tooling
- Basic testing practices (unit/integration) and awareness of secure coding principles (OWASP)
- At least an intermediate level of English & fluent Ukrainian
As a plus:
- Golang and familiarity with common libraries and frameworks
- Workflow orchestration tools such as Temporal or similar solutions
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- NoSQL databases and caching solutions (e.g. MongoDB, Redis)
Meet a fellow MacPawian
Q:
What’s the most exciting part of your job?
A:
Of course, it’s when you can finally see results of days, weeks, sometimes months of your work. It can be both nerve-wracking and exciting at the same time
Petro Shcherbatiuk
Senior Software Engineer (Back-End)
What We Offer
We are a Ukrainian company, and we stand with Ukraine against the russian aggression
- We maintain workplaces for the mobilized Macpawians and provide financial support to colleagues or their families affected by the war. Here, you can also read about the MacPaw Foundation, which intends to help save the lives of Ukrainian defenders and provide relief to as many civilians as possible.
We are committed to our veterans
- Our Veteran Career and Empowerment Program is designed to ensure our veterans and active military personnel receive the recognition, support, and opportunities they deserve.
Hybrid work model
- Whether to work remotely or at the hub is entirely up to you. If you decide to mix it, our Kyiv office, which works as a coworking space, is open around the clock. The office is supplied with UPS and Starlink for an uninterrupted work process.
Your health always comes first
- We guarantee medical insurance starting on your first working month. For those abroad, you can receive a yearly Medical insurance allowance as compensation for managing your medical expenses.
Flexible working hours
- You can choose a schedule that is comfortable for you. No one here tracks your clock in/out because MacPaw is built on trust and cooperation.
Space to grow both professionally and personally
- Education opportunities to grow both hard and soft skills, annual development reviews, and internal community.
Teams we are proud of
- We build honest, transparent, and reliable relationships within teams. Every Macpawian can improve processes and implement their ideas. We encourage open and constructive feedback and provide training for Macpawians on giving and receiving feedback.
Office designed for people (and pets)
- Our office has it all: a spacious workplace with enough room for sitting up, lying down, and running around; a gym for recreation; cozy kitchens; a sleeping/meditation room; and a terrace with a view where we throw summer parties. Also, we have two cats living in the office.
Time-off policy that covers life’s needs
- Convenient personal time-off policy to help you take care of essential matters in your personal life, and parental leaves. On top of all that, sabbaticals are open after 5 years of being with MacPaw.
Join social initiatives with MacPawCares
- MacPaw participates in numerous humanitarian aid and charity projects across many fields, and you are welcome to jump in to make the world a better place.
We’re an equal-opportunity employer. Here is a safe place for applicants of all backgrounds
- We are hiring talented humans. Meaning with all our variety of backgrounds and identities, including service members and veterans, women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals with disabilities, and other often underrepresented groups. MacPaw does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
- Some benefits are under development, and new adjustments are possible.
