Senior PHP Developer

Company Profile

INSCALE is an impactful IT scaling partner to people and businesses. We unite tech talent with forward thinking organizations, building a powerful partnership that pushes both towards the next level.

We help our clients achieve scalable growth by combining our proven IT expertise with market-leading talent acquisition strategies and nearly two decades of industry know-how.

For more information, visit https://www.inscale.net

Client Profile

Axo Group is a Fintech company and the go-to loan broker in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. They operate across the Nordic through their brands: Axo Finans, LendMe and Axolania and have been in the market for more than 10 years.

Axo acts as a broker between consumers looking to refinance and consolidate unsecure depth (credit cards and unsecure loans) and banks all over the Nordics. For the consumer they make sure they get the best offer with the best possible terms since they work with 25-35 banks in each market. For banks, they serve as an important marketing channel for attracting new customers.

Their business is doing tremendously well and based on their strategy to build one global platform, they're in the need of yet another skilled developer to help them build even more great stuff.

Responsibilities

You will become a member of a global Product & Tech team located in Oslo, Copenhagen and Lisbon, building a multilanguage, highly scalable, cloud native, multi market broker and membership platform, with a bare minimum of legacy code.

Owns significant features end-to-end on uScore, Axo Group's personal finance platform. Works in an AI First engineering culture where Claude Code and AI-assisted development are daily workflow, not optional extras. Bridges product thinking, strong architecture instincts, and practical delivery — shipping multiple features a week while maintaining the quality standard that financial data demands. Contributes to architectural direction, mentors junior developers, and collaborates across product, design, and data.

Your responsibilities will grow to match your abilities and experience.

• Own complete feature development from spec through deployment — backend and frontend

• Lead architectural discussions and document decisions in ADRs and LLD/HLD documents

• Build and review AI agent workflows using Claude Code, or equivalent tools — delegate implementation, review all output

• Integrate with financial APIs (CreditSafe credit scoring, Prepr CMS, internal services)

• Ship personalisation and offer matching features with LaunchDarkly-gated experiments

• Enforce GDPR and EU AI Act compliance requirements in every feature — data privacy is architecture, not a checkbox

• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers; set the bar for code quality and AI-assisted development practices

Qualifications

Technical Requirements (Must Have):

Backend — Laravel / PHP

• 5+ years of PHP experience

• 3+ years working with Laravel

• Strong understanding of Laravel internals (DI, service container, middleware, events)

• Writes clean, structured code using best practices (SOLID, DTOs, CQRS pattern)

• Deep experience with databases and Eloquent ORM (performance, relationships, query optimization)

• Experience designing scalable systems (queues, jobs, APIs, integrations)

• Knowledge of testing (PHPUnit/Pest) and static analysis tools (PHPStan)

Technical Requirements (Good to Have):

• Agentic tools like Claude Code or Cursor

• Knows how to write ADRs and understand Low level design and high level design

• React/Nextjs experience

• Experience with accessible UI (Nice to have skills)

Soft Skills Requirements:

• Systems thinker: sees how individual components affect the whole product and business

• High ownership: takes features from first line to production — does not throw over the wall

• Constructive scepticism: questions assumptions, including AI-generated output

• Balances technical excellence with delivery velocity — knows when good enough ships faster and when quality debt is dangerous in a financial product

• Intellectually honest: flags blockers early, estimates with ranges, communicates uncertainty

• Self-directed: drives their own work in a low-bureaucracy environment; does not wait to be told what to do

• Committed to continuous learning: the AI tooling landscape changes weekly; adaptability is required

Remarks:

Hybrid work model:

• 2 times a week work from Lisbon office (Avenida da Liberdade, Nr. 36, 7th floor, Lisbon)

Compensation (gross monthly salary): €3,900 - €4,950 (Senior Level). The role is typically placed around €4,425 gross/monthly, depending on the experience and scope. Final placement within the band is determined by objective assessment against role requirements.

Traveling:

Occasional travel to Oslo, Norway (Once per year)