Company Mission

4human's purpose is to simplify and improve everyday work for people, employees and managers. In HR that means one platform built for Nordic regulations and ways of working, with market-leading sick-leave follow-up and 20+ years of payroll, time and scheduling integrations behind it.

The next stage is bigger than Norway. 4human launched in Sweden in 2026 and is now the core-HR pillar of a Nordic HCM group alongside Eletive (engagement and people analytics) and Tamigo (workforce management), with a shared ambition to become the leading human capital management platform in the Nordics and beyond.

Your work on 4human HRM V8 is what makes that possible: a platform that stays stable and fast as the customer base grows, connects cleanly to the group's products, and brings AI assistance into everyday HR work.

Your future duties

  • Design, develop and maintain new features and improvements across our services and integration domains

  • Own performance and reliability

  • Ensure security of the system and respect privacy rules

  • Bring ideas and collaborate in an international development team

Necessary experience

  • 6+ years of professional PHP development experience

  • 4+ years with Symfony (at least 5.x/6.x) and Doctrine ORM in production

  • Experience with distributed systems

Core technical skills

  • Modern PHP (8.x) and Symfony

  • Doctrine ORM

  • MySQL design and performance tuning

  • RabbitMQ or comparable messaging

  • RESTful API design and OpenAPI contracts

  • Testing discipline (PHPUnit)

  • Static analysis (PHPStan, PHPCS, etc.)

  • Practical experience using AI coding assistants, with responsibility for reviewing code and verifying correctness, security, and test cases

Additional technical skills

  • Redis and Elasticsearch in application design

  • Experience decomposing or consolidating service landscapes

  • Docker and container-based development

Nice to have

  • Security in multi-tenant SaaS: authorization, data isolation, GDPR

  • OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect and SAML federation flows

  • Go for small, high-throughput services

  • Terraform / Infrastructure as Code

  • Kubernetes: Helm charts, ArgoCD/GitOps, observability

  • Load testing and performance profiling under load

  • HR / payroll domain knowledge

  • Experience in regulated, audit-driven domains

Soft skills

  • Proactiveness

  • Strive to improve and perform

  • Communication skills

  • English language proficiency (B2 level, written and spoken)

Remote work

The position is remote work but we usually meet in the office 2-3 times a month. Ideal candidate should be located in Tricity or near by.