Senior Backend Web Developer

at Collibra
📍 Prague, Czechia
EUR 75,000-95,000 per year
SENIOR
✅ Hybrid

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Marketing @ 4 Security @ 7 MySQL @ 7 Nginx @ 6 DevOps @ 6 Python @ 4 GitHub @ 7 GitHub Actions @ 7 CI/CD @ 4 Leadership @ 7 AWS @ 4 Git @ 4 JavaScript @ 4 PHP @ 4 Node.js @ 4 Web Development @ 6 Jira @ 4 API @ 4 Cloudflare @ 4 Project Management @ 4 Reporting @ 4 Customer Support @ 4 Salesforce @ 4

Details

Collibra’s Senior Backend Web Developer will be a key member of our Digital Marketing team, responsible for building, maintaining, and securing the infrastructure that powers our global web presence. Reporting to the Director of Digital Marketing, you’ll work closely with a collaborative group of engineers, designers, marketers and content authors to deliver performant, scalable and integrated digital experiences. From managing CI/CD pipelines and troubleshooting mission-critical outages to developing robust PHP/Python scripts for custom APIs, you’ll ensure our websites and services remain fast, secure, and highly functional. This role is vital to support and enable our cross-functional teams, from Marketing and Customer Support to Finance and Engineering, to leverage web technology that drives lead generation, product access and customer success. As a back-end developer and system integrator, you’ll apply deep technical expertise to improve efficiency, enhance security and support the end-to-end delivery of web experiences that reflect Collibra’s leadership in the data and AI governance space.

Responsibilities

  • Designing, developing, and maintaining backend services, system integrations and APIs that support Collibra’s global web properties
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams including within Marketing, Engineering, Data Office and Customer Support to deliver secure, scalable and high-performing backend solutions
  • Managing and optimizing infrastructure tools and workflows across environments (local, staging, production) using CI/CD pipelines and Git best practices
  • Building, customizing and securing WordPress environments including custom post types, templates, plugins and PHP/JavaScript functions
  • Leading the development of federated search integrations, gated content access systems, and user-specific personalization through scripting in Python and PHP
  • Proactively monitoring web server performance, troubleshooting outages, and implementing security patches across WPEngine, AWS and Cloudflare-hosted properties
  • Creating and maintaining documentation for all backend systems, integrations and automation scripts
  • Ensuring marketing systems like Salesforce, Marketo, and others are integrated accurately and reliably via backend development and API logic
  • Supporting internal stakeholders by diagnosing access or technical issues and implementing sustainable backend solutions
  • Improving page speed, query performance, and backend code maintainability through structured refactoring and performance tuning

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
  • 5+ years of professional backend web development experience, ideally in B2B SaaS or agency settings
  • Expertise in PHP and Python; working knowledge of Node.js and JavaScript frameworks such as Vue
  • Experience with Sanity or another modern headless CMS
  • Strong experience with WordPress, LAMP stack development, REST APIs, and relational databases (MySQL)
  • Proficiency with WordPress architecture, templating, hooks, plugin development and REST API
  • Preferred experience with Salesforce SOQL
  • Strong proficiency with source control systems such as Git and GitHub actions
  • Familiarity with AWS services including CloudFront, CloudSearch, S3, and API Gateway
  • Proficiency in web server management (Apache/Nginx), Cloudflare and DevOps tools (cPanel, WHM, CRON, CLI)
  • Demonstrated ability to build secure, scalable and modular backend systems focusing on cross-functional integrations
  • Experience with Project Management tools such as JIRA, Asana
  • Portfolio of backend-focused code samples (GitHub or similar) with well-documented contributions
  • Work authorization to work in Prague, CZ

Benefits

Collibra offers a flexible benefits program tailored to diverse needs, including competitive compensation, health coverage, and time off. The company prioritizes inclusion and belonging in its culture and workplace practices. Collibra is an equal opportunity employer welcoming applicants regardless of various legally protected categories and provides accommodations for applicants as needed.