appflame
appflame - Middle Software Engineer PHP
appflameUkraine15 hours ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology
appflame – Ukrainian product IT company that creates world-class products: Hily, Taimi, AdConnect, Mailkeeper, and more.

We Are Today

  • 7 years, 500+ employees, offices in Kyiv, London, Limassol, and a coworking in Warsaw;
  • in 2025, appflame ranked 5th among the 50 best employers in Ukraine according to Forbes and won in the "Place for Growth" category.

Our apps Hily and Taimi are among the Top 5 dating apps in the U.S. with over 70 million users, while AdConnect and Mailkeeper specialize in developing and scaling our own B2B and B2C solutions.

Our Mission

  • Flame up the world with Ukrainian products.

Our Goals

  • Reach the top 5 list of product companies in the world.
  • Become a unicorn.
  • Turn Ukraine into a country where unicorns are born and thrive.

We are looking for daring, brave, and “crazy” people. Fans of creating real products and who dream about launching and developing cool startups. You have ambitions, we have comfortable conditions for their fulfillment.

You Will

  • Build and scale marketing automation processes, reducing manual work and operational costs.
  • Collaborate closely with marketing, analytics, and product teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
  • Own marketing automation tasks end-to-end — from problem discovery and solution design to delivery and iteration.
  • Improve speed, reliability, and transparency of marketing operations through automation and better tooling.
  • Identify bottlenecks in existing marketing processes and proactively propose improvements.

We’ll Have a Match If You

  • Have knowledge of any modern framework.
  • Have strong hands-on experience with PHP 8.
  • Have solid experience with MySQL.
  • Have experience working with Redis.
  • Understand and have worked with queues, jobs, and events.
  • Have a good understanding of OOP principles, SOLID, and common design patterns.
  • Understand and have experience with Agile software development methodologies.
  • Experience with DDD is a plus.
  • Are highly autonomous and comfortable taking full ownership without constant guidance.
  • Are proactive and don’t wait for perfect or fully defined requirements.
  • Can clearly communicate with non-technical stakeholders and explain technical decisions in simple terms.
  • Are comfortable working in a fast-evolving environment where processes are still being built.
  • Can prioritize effectively and balance delivery speed with code quality.

Will Be An Advantage

  • Previous experience with marketing automation solutions or MarTech platforms.
  • Understanding of key marketing metrics such as CAC, LTV, CPM, CTR, ROI, and similar performance indicators.
  • Experience collaborating closely with marketing or growth teams.
  • Experience integrating AI-based solutions for business or marketing use cases (e.g., automation, analytics, optimization, productivity tools).

Your journey to the job offer: message from the recruiter > interview > test > final interview > job offer.

Why appflame?

  • Involvement in the development of Ukrainian products that compete with the world's best market players.
  • The opportunity to implement your ideas rather than being a cog in the system.
  • Meaningful and useful products created to serve a specific purpose rather than make money for shareholders.
  • Be around like-minded people who work on results.
  • Work with the global market and a huge audience.
  • Direct contact with Snapchat, Meta, Google, Apple, and access to their best practices.
  • Well-established processes and great opportunities to growth within the company.
  • Transparent evaluation of work based on personal performance indicators.
  • Great benefits package and fair compensation.

We provide all you need for your talents to be fully revealed.

We are loyal to our people. Our loyalty doesn't fade at the end of the working day.

We do not leave our people alone with their problems, neither professional nor personal.

Join us.

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We are against all types of discrimination, bullying, and stereotypes. We provide equal employment opportunities regardless of race, skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, health status or any other characteristics.

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