
Senior Backend Web Developer
- Praha
- Trvalý pracovní poměr
- Plný úvazek
- Designing, developing, and maintaining backend services, system integrations and APIs that support Collibra's global web properties
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams including within Marketing, Engineering, Data Office and Customer Support to deliver secure, scalable and high-performing backend solutions
- Managing and optimizing infrastructure tools and workflows across environments (local, staging, production) using CI/CD pipelines and Git best practices
- Building, customizing and securing WordPress environments including custom post types, templates, plugins and PHP/JavaScript functions
- Leading the development of our federated search integrations, gated content access systems, and user-specific personalization through scripting in Python and PHP
- Proactively monitoring web server performance, troubleshooting outages, and implementing security patches across WPEngine, AWS and Cloudflare-hosted properties
- Creating and maintaining documentation for all backend systems, integrations and automation scripts
- Ensuring marketing systems like Salesforce, Marketo, and others integrated accurately and reliably via backend development and API logic
- Supporting internal stakeholders by diagnosing access or technical issues and implementing sustainable backend solutions
- Improving page speed, query performance, and backend code maintainability through structured refactoring and performance tuning
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science and equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of professional backend web development experience, ideally in B2B SaaS or agency settings
- Expertise in PHP and Python with working knowledge of Node.js and JavaScript frameworks such as Vue
- Knowledge working with Sanity or another modern headless CMS
- Strong experience with WordPress, LAMP stack development, REST APIs, and relational databases (MySQL)
- Strong proficiency with Wordpress architecture, templating, hooks, plugin development and REST API expertise
- Proven ability developing with Salesforce SOQL preferred
- Strong proficiency with source control systems such as Git and using GitHub actions
- Familiarity with AWS services including CloudFront, CloudSearch, S3, and API Gateway
- Strong proficiency with web server management (Apache/Nginx), Cloudflare and DevOps tools (cPanel, WHM, CRON, CLI)
- Demonstrated ability to build secure, scalable and modular backend systems, with an emphasis on cross-functional integrations
- Experience with Project Management tools such as JIRA, Asana
- A portfolio of backend-focused code samples (GitHub or similar), with clearly documented contributions
- must have work authorization to work in Prague, CZ
- A backend-focused engineer who excels at turning business needs into clean, maintainable backend code
- Proactive in identifying and solving technical issues before they impact end-users or stakeholders
- Comfortable working across development environments and adept at debugging complex integration issues
- A collaborative team player who can clearly communicate technical constraints and possibilities to non-technical stakeholders
- Detail-oriented and committed to documentation, testing and scalable architecture
- Within your first month, you will have familiarized yourself with our development environments, completed onboarding to key systems and repos, and contributed to updates or fixes
- Within your third month, you will have taken ownership of at least one major backend integration or system, improved documentation and contributed to cross-functional web projects
- Within your sixth month, you will be the primary technical owner of all backend web systems and services, regularly contributing code, proposing architectural improvements and partnering with business stakeholders maintaining scalable digital solutions