Backend Engineer
€3,200 – €7,200 / mth base salary
Posted 14 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Backend Engineer | Mid - Senior | Business Onboarding & Setup Team”
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- Expected experience
- 3+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | €3,200 – €7,200 / mth |
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At NordPass, we’re making password security effortless.
We believe logins should be safer and simpler. Join the team behind NordPass— a password manager trusted by 7M+ users and 10,000+ global companies to secure credentials, cards, and sensitive data.
Your impact? Helping millions secure their digital lives by creating smarter, safer ways to log in.
Main Responsibilities
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Contributing to the development of new features and maintaining the existing systems;
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Delivering high-quality, maintainable, secure, and well-tested code;
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Taking an active part in technical design decisions, refining processes, and contributing to the overall strategic direction of the product;
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Engaging in and facilitating various team ceremonies and improving processes.
Core Requirements
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At least 3 years of experience working with PHP and developing codebases written in its frameworks (Symfony, Slim);
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Solid understanding of OOP, asynchronous programming, and design patterns;
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Understanding of core CI/CD principles, unit testing, and integration testing;
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Product engineering mindset, focused on problems, outcomes, and impact.
Bonus Points For
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Experience implementing and optimizing secure authentication flows (e.g. OAuth, OIDC, JWT) and Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions;
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Hands-on experience using AI tools to augment engineering (e.g. code generation, test creation, performance tuning, and debugging), with strong ownership of outputs and results;
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Experience with AWS services (e.g. SNS/SQS, DynamoDB, EventBridge, ECS, S3);
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Familiarity with cryptography;
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Familiarity with Kubernetes.
Tools You Will Use
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PHP 8;
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Golang;
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MySQL;
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Redis;
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RabbitMQ;
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DynamoDB;
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Sentry;
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Grafana;
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Docker;
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Git;