PHP Developer (AI-First Workflow)

CompanyHouse is the leading German business information platform. It crawls, parses, and structures data from official German trade registers, annual reports, and public filings, serving company profiles, financial data, and shareholder reports to thousands of paying customers across 4M+ German companies. The team is a small, senior-heavy engineering group (5 developers + PO) based in Poland, working fully remotely for a Swiss-German product company. They ship to production multiple times per day and AI tools are a core part of their development process.

• Proficient in PHP (core language).
• Experience with PostgreSQL as main database.
• Skilled in AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Copilot, JetBrains AI Assistant.
• Proficient with Git.
• Experience with Yii2 or similar PHP frameworks (Symfony, Laravel) is nice to have.
• Experience with web crawling/scraping tools like Selenium, cURL, proxy management is nice to have.
• Knowledge of MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations.
• Basic Python knowledge (for NLP microservices).
• Experience with ElasticSearch.
• Familiarity with Docker.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins.
• Experience with German business/legal documents (Handelsregister, Jahresabschluss) is a plus.

• Use AI coding tools (Claude Code, JetBrains AI Assistant with MCP, project prompts) as a primary development method.
• Deliver features fast on a large PHP (Yii2) + PostgreSQL platform processing millions of German company records.
• Build and optimize high-performance data crawlers and parsers for trade register documents, annual reports, and shareholder lists.
• Write effective prompts for code generation, testing, and code review, then verify and refine AI output.
• Include integration and unit tests with every deliverable.
• Participate in PR-based code reviews with 24h turnaround.
• Work with the tech lead and PO in weekly planning sessions.
• Simplify and improve a large legacy codebase to reduce complexity and improve team velocity.
• Log AI usage on every Jira ticket (tool used, contribution %, quality).
• Join monthly AI knowledge-sharing sessions.