DevOps & Backend Developer
We’re a company that values innovation, collaboration, and personal development – and we look forward to welcoming you on our continued growth journey.
DevOps & Backend Developer at Photowall
About Photowall
Photowall is a global leader in custom wallpaper and wall decor. We serve over 20 markets, and have ambitious plans for continued growth through geographic expansion and new product launches. At Photowall, you’ll find a dynamic environment with ample opportunities for professional development.
About the Role
Photowall is in an expansive phase, and we are now looking for a developer who is equally comfortable working with infrastructure and building backend features. You’ll write code in our PHP/Postgres stack while also shaping how our platform performs, scales, and stays reliable. You’ll play a key role in managing our AWS cloud infrastructure, and ensuring we are prepared to handle increased traffic as the company grows. TypeScript and React are a growing part of our stack, so experience with modern React frameworks such as Next.js s a plus.
Your Focus Will Be On:
- Ensuring our platform performs reliably under high traffic and spikes
- Optimizing our PostgreSQL database to ensure speed and stability
- Managing caching solutions, such as Redis, to improve performance and reduce database load
- Improving observability and monitoring to detect and resolve performance issues
- Managing and optimizing our AWS cloud environment
- Server management with Nginx and PHP-FPM
- Enhancing our CI/CD pipeline to streamline development workflows
- Creating scalable and future-proof solutions to handle growing traffic and user demands
- Developing new features in our PHP 8-based backend
- Taking part in designing and evolving our architecture, such as building new APIs
- Collaborating closely with other developers, product owners, and frontend developers to deliver high-quality solutions
What You Need to Know
We believe you have at least five years of experience as a developer and enjoy a role where backend development is the main focus. You’re comfortable tackling complex technical challenges and naturally consider scalability and performance in your work.
Requirements:
- At least 5 years of experience in web development
- Experience designing and operating scalable, high-availability systems
- Solid experience working with PHP or a similar backend language
- Strong knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Experience managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure, preferably on AWS
- Experience working with caching solutions, such as Redis
- Understanding of and experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work in cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience optimizing performance in scalable applications
- Experience with e-commerce
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (New Relic, CloudWatch etc)
- Experience with large-scale traffic environments
- Bonus: experience with TypeScript and React, and frameworks like Next.js
Why Photowall?
At Photowall, you’ll be joining a small, supportive team that values a no-stress environment and simple, robust, high-quality solutions. You will have the opportunity to influence and develop our technical platform at a company that values innovation, collaboration, and personal development – and we look forward to welcoming you on our continued growth journey.
Apply today and become a key player in Photowall’s success!
- Avdelning
- Product & Platform
- Locations
- Stockholm
- Remote status
- Hybrid
The interesting part
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We are the market leader is custom wallpaper production and are growing rapidly with an ambitious vision for the business.
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We have our own production site in Stockholm, which is run on 100% renewable energy and uses only responsibly resourced materials.
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Employees have access to generous discounts on the full range of Photowall products.
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There is a fully equipped gym on-site which is free to use for all employees. Along with fruit and snacks in our kitchens.
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We offer hybrid-working arrangements if feasible for certain positions.
Think you're our next match?
We're a creative, curious bunch at Photowall, constantly adapting and innovating. With our customer always top of mind. We like to get things done, both by ourselves and in teams.
You'll enjoy working with us if you like to get your hands dirty, aren't phased by the momentum that comes with the world of online retail, and are hungry to learn and better yourself.
About Photowall
In 2006 two Swedish brothers with a background in tech realised their dream of providing a way to buy customised wallpapers online.
An innovative on-demand production disrupted the market and delivered unlimited ways to transform people’s walls.
Now producing over 150k wallpapers a year for homes across the world.
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