Senior Full-Stack Developer, PHP

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🕒 July 14

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 29%

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Handyman Interactive

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Marketing • Software

Handyman Interactive is a software development company specializing in creating high-quality applications across multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, Windows, and Linux. With extensive experience in building native Apple apps using Objective-C and Swift, the company also excels in developing for Android and Windows environments. Handyman Interactive offers bespoke business solutions and has expertise in web technologies such as Ruby and PHP. The company has created state-of-the-art mobile apps like the Lightfoot Driver app, using native approaches for both iOS and Android to deliver award-winning user experiences. They provide full-stack development services, helping clients like Landmrk deliver innovative AR/Geo-campaigns.

📋 Description

• Building and improving customer-facing features across a large, established PHP/Symfony web application backed by MySQL • Developing new UI components and views in React/TypeScript • Exposing new data and reporting through portal pages, reporting views, and API layers • Integrating third-party services via their APIs and SDKs, and maintaining clean abstraction layers • Enhancing and extending the existing PHP API layer to support new platform features • Full-stack delivery across backend and frontend, picking up whatever the backlog needs

🎯 Requirements

• Strong commercial PHP experience, ideally with Symfony or a comparable modern PHP framework, with a solid grasp of clean API design and architecture • Solid SQL skills: writing and optimizing queries against large datasets, comfortable working with an ORM. MySQL experience is a plus; strong Postgres experience is also acceptable • Proven experience building and consuming REST APIs, including third-party integrations • Comfortable working on AWS-hosted applications • Frontend competence in TypeScript/JavaScript sufficient to contribute across the full stack • Strong engineering discipline, version control, unit testing, code review and clear written communication for a remote embedded team • Secure coding awareness: you should write to a standard that passes automated static analysis and secrets scanning as part of the CI/CD pipeline • React experience — strongly valued; without it, the focus would be on PHP/Symfony, API, and legacy portal work • React Native awareness — some work feeds from a driver-facing mobile app • Exposure to telematics, IoT, or high-volume data platforms • Experience modernising or re-platforming legacy applications • Familiarity with agentic coding tools such as Cursor or Claude Code • Docker — working familiarity expected at senior level • Python — not needed for this engagement but a longer-term plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements