Nordavo is looking for a Senior Backend Developer, or an ambitious medior developer ready to grow into a senior position, for a Dutch SaaS company in the financial services sector.

The company develops a platform used daily by thousands of professionals to collaborate, automate routine processes and manage their work in real time.

At this scale, stability, performance and maintainable architecture are essential. You will work from Nordavo’s modern office in Indiranagar, Bangalore, while contributing directly to an international SaaS product.

What you will do

You will have a genuine say in the technical direction of the platform. The architecture is mature, but continues to evolve as the platform grows.

- Develop, safeguard and improve the backend architecture
- Refactor and modernise existing codebases
- Solve complex technical and production issues
- Improve performance, security, stability and scalability
- Write unit, integration and end to end tests
- Contribute actively to CI/CD processes
- Estimate technical impact within Agile sprints
- Take ownership of components and technical improvements
- Support the team during incidents following releases The team releases several times a day. Something you build in the morning could be live that same afternoon. This means short feedback loops, quick decisions and a direct impact on the product.

The stack

- PHP
- Laravel
- Docker
- OAuth
- CI/CD
- Kubernetes

What we’re looking for

- Skilled experience with PHP and modern backend architecture
- Experience with Laravel or a comparable modern PHP framework
- The ability to analyse and improve an existing codebase
- Experience with performance optimisation and scalability
- Confidence working in an Agile development environment
- The ability to take ownership of components and technical decisions
- Experience writing automated tests
- A structured approach to investigating complex production issues

You don’t stop when a problem fails to match the documentation.



You are comfortable investigating issues such as race conditions, locking, concurrency, asynchronous processing, synchronisation problems and queue related edge cases.

Who you are

- You take responsibility for what you build
- You think beyond functionality and consider maintainability, security and performance
- You communicate clearly and give constructive feedback
- You enjoy getting to the root cause of difficult problems
- You don’t just want to build features, you want to improve the product and its architecture
- You are comfortable communicating in English with an international team

What you get A competitive salary in line with the market and a complete benefits package designed to give you flexibility, ownership and room to grow.

Flexibility & Comfort

- Flexible starting hours between 10:00 and 12:00
- Flexible paid leave
- A regular Monday to Friday schedule with no weekend work
- Fixed travel allowance
- Fixed lunch allowance
- Monthly team lunches and social activities
- A company laptop and your own dedicated desk
- A modern office in Indiranagar, Bangalore A Modern Way of Working
- An AI first working environment
- Access to modern AI and cloud tools
- Exposure to European clients and international projects
- Short development cycles and direct feedback
- The opportunity to see your work used by thousands of professionals

Freedom & Growth
- Direct contact with the founders
- Freedom and responsibility within your role
- Room to contribute and implement your own ideas
- Personal learning and development opportunities
- Clear career growth opportunities as Nordavo expands
- Significant technical ownership over the platform and its architecture

Interested?

Do you want to build scalable SaaS software, work on technically challenging problems and contribute to a product used by thousands of professionals?

Apply now and tell us about the backend systems you have built, the production problems you have solved and the technical improvements you are most proud of.

Nordavo

- Groningen × Bangalore

📌 Senior Backend Developer (PHP) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Nordavo
📍 Bengaluru