About CreatorIQ
CreatorIQ is the operating system for creator-led growth trusted by more than 1,300 global brands and agencies. We’re on a mission to make businesses more human, and humans more impactful. We operate by our values — be intentional, pursue excellence every day, embrace the journey together, and be a good human. We operate in a flexible work model that combines both in-person and remote work to boost collaboration, enhance innovation, and adapt to individual work styles.
Role Overview
We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with deep PHP expertise and strong Node.js skills to join the Enterprise API and Platform API Team as we modernize and scale CreatorIQ's backend systems. This is a new, hands-on role focused on evolving a large PHP monolith into modular, service-oriented components while raising the bar for code quality, testing, and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Develop a deep understanding of our existing PHP monolithic codebase and progressively extract it into modular, service-oriented components.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, testable, and reusable backend services in PHP and Node.js.
- Design and maintain robust RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
- Lead refactoring efforts that improve performance, readability, and long-term maintainability of core systems.
- Build, deploy, and operate services on AWS, including Lambda and API Gateway.
- Write and maintain unit and integration tests to ensure reliability across releases.
- Critically review, validate, and improve AI-generated code rather than accepting it at face value.
- Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement across the platform.
- Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs clearly in writing and through short video walkthroughs, and collaborate effectively across a remote, async-first, cross-timezone team.
What we offer
- People: Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
- Guidance: Utilize our learning platform to fully get the training and tools you'll need to become successful here from your first day with us.
- Work/life harmony: 26 days of vacation, floating and company holidays, wellness benefits, and paid parental leave.
- Whole Health Package: Comprehensive medical, life, and business travel insurance, plus additional wellness benefits.
- Planning for the future: Participate in Poland's Employee Capital Plan (PPK) to help you plan ahead.
- Equity: Stock options as part of our equity-sharing program.
- Work from home stipend: To assist you in setting up a home office that works for you.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
- Expert-level PHP experience, including direct work on enterprise-grade, production systems.
- Strong backend experience with Node.js.
- Hands-on experience refactoring or decomposing monolithic architectures into modular services.
- Strong background in API design (REST and GraphQL) and backend architecture.
- Experience with AWS, particularly Lambda and serverless patterns.
- Experience writing testable code and maintaining automated test suites.
- Experience using AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor) within IDEs such as VS Code or PhpStorm, including critically reviewing and refining AI-generated code.
- Fluency in English, written and spoken.
- Highly proactive and self-directed, with a proven ability to communicate effectively and unblock yourself in a remote, async-first environment.
