Senior Backend Web Developer

Joining Collibra's Brand and Digital Marketing team

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.

This is a hybrid role based in our Prague office. Our hybrid model means you'll work from the office at least two days each week. This setup helps us stay connected, work more closely together, and keep making progress as a team.

Senior Back-End Web Developer's at Collibra are responsible for

• 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 our 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 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

You have

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

You are

• A backend-focused engineer who excels at turning business needs into clean, maintainable backend code
• Proactive in identifying and solving technical issues before they impact end-users or stakeholders
• Comfortable working across development environments and adept at debugging complex integration issues
• A collaborative team player who can clearly communicate technical constraints and possibilities to non-technical stakeholders
• Detail-oriented and committed to documentation, testing and scalable architecture

Measures of success

• Within your first month, you will have familiarized yourself with our development environments, completed onboarding to key systems and repos, and contributed to updates or fixes
• Within your third month, you will have taken ownership of at least one major backend integration or system, improved documentation and contributed to cross-functional web projects
• Within your sixth month, you will be the primary technical owner of all backend web systems and services, regularly contributing code, proposing architectural improvements and partnering with business stakeholders maintaining scalable digital solutions

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