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Senior Back-End Engineer

Chainels

Chainels

Software Engineering
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Posted on Jul 1, 2025

We are looking for an experienced Senior Back-End Engineer to join our team, help build exciting new features, and prepare our codebase for the future.

Who are we?

Based in Rotterdam, Chainels is a high-growth PropTech company offering a community platform for buildings and cities elevating the living and working experience, and enabling efficient management. Our SaaS solution is trusted by renowned real estate investors, available in 15+ countries, and used over 700+ buildings with 100.000+ users. Our product development team - comprising in-house Web, iOS, Android developers, and designers - has designed and built many features to optimise daily workflows including a message feed, surveys, financial overviews, issue reporting and a booking system. Recently we’ve implemented integrations such as OpenID Connect, and payments using Stripe.

What is your role?

As a Senior Back-End Engineer at Chainels, you will be:

  • Responsible for the implementation of new product functionalities and improvements involving work on the back-end that directly impact our end users.
  • Researching and improving the back-end architecture for performance, scalability and robustness.
  • An important pillar in our product team, working closely with front-end, design, and product management to deliver changes and new functionality.
  • A key contributor in upcoming projects aimed to improve the core of our codebase and application.

Our perfect candidate has:

  • 7+ years of experience as a back-end developer in PHP
  • Experience with PHP frameworks such as Symfony
  • Strong grasp of architectural design principles
  • Experience building REST APIs
  • Experience with database design, with technologies such as SQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch

What are the benefits of working at Chainels?

  • Yearly personal development budget for your continuous growth
  • Inspiring and dynamic work environment in a fast-growing, international company
  • Competitive salary and benefits package, including a modern pension plan
  • Vibrant company culture, celebrating results and supporting each other's growth through shared failures and successes
  • Hybrid working model (3 days in office)
  • Laptop to work remotely
  • 25 days of annual leave
  • Complimentary lunch and snacks at the office 🥪
  • Team outings 💃, vrijmibo 🍻, team trips away 🏄

We only process applications from candidates residing in the EU