Backend Developer - PHP & Laravel

Your Playground / Your Job

• Build & optimize our core booking platform and integrations (REST APIs, third-party systems, internal microservices).
• Develop new backend features using PHP 8+, Laravel, and MySQL – independently and collaboratively.
• Debug, tune, and scale live systems – because performance matters.
• Collaborate closely with Frontend, Marketing, and Product – from feature request to live release.
• Work with modern AI dev tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude) and level up your coding flow.
• Contribute to projects rethinking the future of hospitality tech and travel experience.

What You Bring / Your Profile

• PHP 8.x & MySQL are your home turf.
• You know your way around MVC frameworks (Laravel = jackpot).
• Debugging and problem-solving are wired into your DNA.
• You speak REST fluently – both consuming and building APIs.
• Git, JIRA, and Confluence are part of your daily toolkit.
• You're already using modern AI tools – and open to automating workflows further.
• Bonus points if you're passionate about travel, hospitality, and new tech stacks.

What’s in It for You

• A small, experienced dev team – no 20-layer management maze.
• Real ownership of your code and plenty of freedom for your ideas.
• Modern tools, flat hierarchies, and fast decisions.
• An international environment + projects with real impact (Hospitality + E-Commerce).

Code that doesn’t vanish into a drawer – it’s live and serving millions of users.

Your a&o Benefits

• 75% - 90% discount on private accommodation in all hostels (depending on length of service)
• Up to 1 day of home office per week possible (in consultation with your line manager)
• Attractive corporate benefits and discounted leisure activities and events
• Subsidised language courses
• Subsidised company pension scheme
• 100% coverage of your public transport costs (job ticket)
• Support for your further training in the form of various training courses
• Mental health: We offer you free and anonymous mental health coaching from our independent partner “nilo” (www.nilohealth.com), who will support you with professional, private and health challenges
• Of course, we provide drinks, fruit and vegetables every day
• Long-service bonuses in the form of cash bonuses and additional holiday days

Sounds Like Your Stack?

Apply now and help us build the next generation of hostel tech.