Backend Developer, Careers At Gapstars, Colombo, LK

About Gapstars

Gapstars is a Netherlands and Sri Lanka based software development services provider for innovative tech companies. Today, we are home to 100+ techstars and innovative minds turning scalable software into performance products shaping the future. Our partners are highly ambitious tech companies that are looking to conquer their respective markets.

The Role

At Gapstars, our goal is to fuel growth for highly ambitious tech companies with world-class tech talent. If you are an experienced and ambitious Backend Developer with strong programming fundamentals and the ability to adopt new frameworks as needed we want to hear from you.

As a Backend Developer, you will be expected to architect, develop and release user-facing features and ensure the quality of our product continues to serve the needs of our tens of millions of users.

Join top ambitious developers

We hire only top developers with a knack for clean code, a product-first mindset, and great communication skills. Our people love fulfilling their passion at Gapstars and the Great Place to Work Institute ranks us in the top 10. Want to join the team?

● Exposure in modern OO PHP 8 framework

● Experience in MySQL 8

● Websockets (NodeJS and SocketIO) to sync data between clients

● AWS services are the backbone of our stack (ECS, Fargate, RDS, SQS, S3, Lambda). We design for high-availability and we deploy our services in multiple regions. We utilize docker containers a lot and have a CI/CD pipeline for most of the microservices we deploy

● We work based on “Continuous integration” so our systems can be separately run on different versions

Who are we looking for?

We look for developers that like algorithmic challenges, are keen on reducing system complexity and have an eye for solving cross-team problems. Next to this, you:

● Have an academic background in computer science or similar (bachelor/master)

● Have experience with PHP and relational databases, preferably MySQL8

● Have knowledge of Git and an agile software development workflow

● Have excellent command of the English language in word and writing

● Thrive in a changing, collaborative and initiative-taking environment