Job
- Level
- Junior
- Job Field
- Web, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop new backend features for our booking platform using PHP 8, Laravel, and MySQL, optimize APIs, and work closely with frontend teams to ensure performance and stability of live systems.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Build & optimize our core booking platform and integrations (REST APIs, third-party systems, internal microservices).
- Develop new backend features using PHP 8+, Laravel, and MySQL - independently and collaboratively.
- Debug, tune, and scale live systems - because performance matters.
- Collaborate closely with Frontend, Marketing, and Product - from feature request to live release.
- Work with modern AI dev tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude) and level up your coding flow.
- Contribute to projects rethinking the future of hospitality tech and travel experience.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- PHP 8.x & MySQL are your home turf.
- You know your way around MVC frameworks (Laravel = jackpot).
- Debugging and problem-solving are wired into your DNA.
- You speak REST fluently - both consuming and building APIs.
- Git, JIRA, and Confluence are part of your daily toolkit.
- You're already using modern AI tools - and open to automating workflows further.
- Bonus points if you're passionate about travel, hospitality, and new tech stacks.
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What we offer
- A small, experienced dev team - no 20-layer management maze.
- Real ownership of your code and plenty of freedom for your ideas.
- Modern tools, flat hierarchies, and fast decisions.
- An international environment + projects with real impact (Hospitality + E-Commerce).
- Code that doesn't vanish into a drawer - it's live and serving millions of users.
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Benefits
Work-Life-Integration
Topics that you deal with on the job
Job Locations
This is your employer
a&o Hostels GmbH & Co KG
a&o Hostels GmbH & Co. KG, based in Berlin, is the largest privately owned hostel chain in Europe, providing central accommodations for various target groups. Since its founding in 2000, the chain has established over 40 locations in around 30 cities and 11 countries, achieving millions of overnight stays annually.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Hotel and Restaurant Industry, Tourism
Junior Backend Developer - PHP & Laravel
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
