About the job
Were looking for a Senior PHP Backend Developer to join our product team and work on Lochting - one of Baldwins most meaningful and technically challenging platforms.
You wont be handed polished specs and locked-down roadmaps. Instead, you'll be working with real people, real complexity, and a product that is in production, evolving, and growing. Youll collaborate closely with fellow backend developers, frontend developers, QA, project managers, product owners, and support teams not just to build features, but to shape how they work and why they matter.
The Product You will be Building
Lochting is a SaaS platform (owned by Meditech-Pharma) helping pharmacists across Belgium, France, Luxembourg, UK, Germany, Austria, Spain, and Australia manage their digital and physical sales channels.
Think:
- Self Checkout devices, Vending machines, Locker devices, webshops and Digital Signage
- Managing product selections, prices, promotions, appointments, integrations
- Connecting to robotic dispensers, ERPs, payment & shipping providers, and more
Lochting is a living product. In production. Generating revenue. Actively developed. And youll play a central role in its future.
What You will Do
- Build APIs, business logic, and integrations using PHP and Symfony
- Translate high-level specs or even one-liners into actual working features
- Collaborate with other backend and frontend devs, QA, PMs, and customer success
- Own what you ship from design to implementation, deployment, support, and iteration
- Keep performance, security, maintainability, and longevity front of mind
- Help evolve our architecture and processes as the product scales
- Occasionally whiteboard, diagram, or hop into a call to figure something out
- Document what matters and write tests that help you sleep at night
What You Bring
Must-Have
- 5+ years of experience as a backend developer, ideally in a product-focused environment
- Strong command of PHP, Symfony and MySQL
- Experience with building, consuming, and maintaining RESTful APIs
- Familiarity with Docker, Linux, and a CLI workflow
- Git, CI/CD, and clean code habits
- Comfortable with testing (unit, integration, functional)
- Professional working proficiency in English
- A Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Nice-to-Have
- Experience with complex integrations: ERPs, devices, third-party APIs
- Interest in architecture, scaling, and long-term maintainability
- Experience working on multi-market & multilingual systems
- Previous collaboration with hardware/robotics teams
Who You are
- You have opinions - and youre not afraid to express them
- You make decisions, take responsibility, and finish what you start
- You care about how things work, not just if they run
- You value collaboration with designers, frontend devs, QA, PMs, and support
- You like discussing, clarifying, diagramming, and figuring things out with others
- Youre analytical, pragmatic, and allergic to blame culture
- You take coding seriously - but not yourself
- You crack a joke in stand-up and still get the job done
Why Join Baldwin?
Were not big on buzzwords or top-down hierarchies. Baldwin is a tight-knit, product-driven company based in Gent and Cluj, where everyone counts and every decision matters.
Our backend team doesnt just implement, we co-create. We take pride in what we build, and support each other along the way
The benefits
- Hybrid and remote flexibility
- 25+ holidays per year
- Private medical services & pension
- Training budget, workshops, conferences
- Snacks, solid gear, and a healthy work-life balance
