Senior PHP/Symfony Engineer

🔥 13 hours ago

🇵🇰 Pakistan – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Smart Working

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

Smart Working is a recruitment service specializing in sourcing and providing top-tier software developers from around the world to meet the needs of businesses. With a robust vetting process that includes technical assessments and background checks, Smart Working ensures that clients receive highly skilled developers adept in various programming languages and frameworks. The company focuses on flexible and remote hiring solutions, allowing businesses to efficiently scale their development teams while benefiting from significant cost savings.

📋 Description

• Own and deliver backend work in the core Symfony application • Critically assess code produced by the team and AI tools • Help migrate the application from Symfony 6.1 to Symfony 7 • Improve application performance, scalability and maintainability • Work across Angular, TypeScript, Python AI agent services and DevOps boundaries • Read and reason about the Angular/TypeScript codebase • Understand system-wide effects of technical decisions • Identify root causes and improve implementation approaches • Deliver maintainable solutions within a legacy codebase • Work autonomously and collaboratively within a remote, cross-functional squad • Maintain compliance with SOC 2, PII and security controls

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of commercial software engineering experience, including 5+ years in PHP • 7+ years of PHP experience at Expert level • 3+ years of recent commercial Symfony 6.x/7 experience at Advanced level; transferable senior Laravel experience may be considered • 4+ years of Advanced experience in backend system design and scalability • 2+ years of Advanced experience critically using AI tooling, including reviewing and challenging AI-generated output • 5+ years of Advanced MySQL experience covering schema design and query optimisation; PostgreSQL or another relational database at the same depth may be considered • 1+ year of Angular/TypeScript awareness; React or Vue with TypeScript may be considered; zero front-end exposure is disqualifying • 3+ years of Advanced automated testing experience with PHPUnit; Pest or equivalent PHP testing frameworks may be considered • 1+ year of Intermediate experience with framework upgrades and legacy-code modernisation • 2+ years of Intermediate AWS experience; Azure or GCP may be considered • Fluent written and spoken English • Strong written and verbal communication and a proven record of working effectively remotely • Ability to work UK hours • Ability to pass strict background checks and comply with PII policies • Strong self-sufficiency, with the ability to work with zero handholding after 2–3 months • Hands-on technical approach with an architect mindset • Respect for SOC 2, PII and security controls

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time, long-term role • Fully remote work • Genuine community focused on growth and well-being • Remote-first work environment • Global team and product exposure