PAR Technology
PAR Technology
1,001 – 5,000 Employees
ConsultingFood & BeverageLogistics
PAR Technology develops technology for restaurants, hospitality businesses, and other high-volume service environments. Its platform brings together point-of-sale systems, digital ordering, payments, and customer loyalty tools to help operators coordinate front-of-house and back-of-house workflows. PAR Technology serves organizations across quick-service and fast-casual dining, cinemas, casinos, theme parks, hotels, and convenience stores, with cloud-based products designed to support smoother operations and a more consistent guest experience.

Staff Backend Developer at PAR Technology (Serbia Remote)

Lead backend development for PAR Technology’s restaurant software and hardware platforms using PHP and Go. Own APIs, architecture, AI-assisted engineering practices, and production reliability.

Description

  • Design, develop, and maintain complex backend systems, services, and APIs for integrated ordering, payment, and workflow solutions.
  • Shape software architecture and technical designs, including system behavior, dependencies, data flows, and integration points.
  • Lead complex features and technical initiatives from requirements and design through implementation, testing, deployment, production validation, and post-release follow-up.
  • Proactively identify technical issues, risks, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.
  • Act as a technical resource for developers on architecture, implementation, debugging, performance, and engineering practices.
  • Provide technical guidance and recommendations to the Engineering Manager.
  • Mentor developers and share technical expertise across the team.
  • Review code for correctness, architecture, maintainability, performance, security, and scalability.
  • Advance engineering standards, coding practices, development processes, and technical guidelines.
  • Use and assess AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development velocity, quality, investigation, debugging, testing, and documentation.
  • Help developers establish effective and responsible AI-assisted development workflows.
  • Partner with Product, Quality Engineering, Frontend, Architecture, DevOps, and other engineering teams.
  • Create and maintain unit, integration, and automated tests.
  • Build reliable, backward-compatible, high-performance, and scalable APIs and integrations.
  • Find and resolve performance bottlenecks and resource-utilization problems.
  • Investigate complex production incidents, determine root causes, and implement corrective and preventive measures.
  • Use monitoring, logging, metrics, and observability tools to evaluate system behavior and validate changes.
  • Prepare technical estimates and communicate assumptions, dependencies, risks, and uncertainties.
  • Set priorities with the Engineering Manager while independently managing technical delivery and dependencies.
  • Communicate risks, blockers, and development issues together with proposed solutions or recommendations.
  • Work with Git and established software development workflows.
  • Expand technical expertise and assess relevant technologies, tools, and engineering practices.
  • Reduce technical debt and identify opportunities for modernization, simplification, and architectural improvement.
  • Balance rapid delivery with long-term system maintainability.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Extensive professional experience developing backend software and independently delivering complex production systems.
  • Strong proficiency in PHP and modern PHP web frameworks and/or Go (Golang).
  • Strong knowledge of relational databases, especially MySQL, including data modeling, query optimization, and performance considerations.
  • Substantial experience designing and maintaining APIs and integrations.
  • Deep knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, maintainability, scalability, and performance.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, service integrations, asynchronous processing, and failure scenarios.
  • Strong understanding of unit, integration, and automated testing practices.
  • Strong understanding of production systems, observability, logging, monitoring, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
  • Strong experience with Git, Linux environments, and modern CI/CD practices.
  • Experience working in Agile and continuous delivery environments.
  • Proven ability to solve complex technical problems independently with limited supervision.
  • Proven ability to own complex features and technical initiatives end to end.
  • Practical experience using AI-assisted software engineering tools as a significant part of the development workflow.
  • Ability to critically assess, validate, and correct AI-generated code and technical solutions.
  • Ability to apply AI to development, investigation, testing, documentation, and problem solving while maintaining quality.
  • Strong code review and technical mentoring capabilities.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across Engineering, Product, Quality Engineering, Architecture, and DevOps.
  • High ownership, accountability, and self-direction.
  • Strong commitment to software quality, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Ability to balance technical excellence with business priorities and delivery requirements.
  • Legal right to work in Serbia.

Benefits

  • Equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.
  • Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities during the application and employment process.

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