Senior PHP Backend Engineer – Laravel, Symfony
Greece
Full Time
1 week ago
No Sponsorship
Key skills
DockerLaravelMySQLPHPSymfonyREST APIGitCI/CDCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Develop and maintain backend applications using PHP frameworks
- Design and implement REST APIs and backend services
- Contribute to scalable and maintainable software architectures
- Work with asynchronous processing, queues, jobs, and integrations
- Support database design, migrations, indexing, and optimisation activities
- Write and maintain unit and feature tests
- Participate in code reviews and maintain code quality standards
- Support troubleshooting, debugging, and performance optimisation activities
- Collaborate with development teams during takeover and delivery phases
- Contribute to CI/CD and deployment-related activities
Requirements
- 4–5 years of professional PHP development experience
- Strong knowledge of PHP 8.2+
- Strong experience with REST API development
- Strong knowledge of MySQL, including schema design, migrations, indexing, and query optimisation
- Experience with Docker and Git
- Experience with PHPUnit or Pest for testing
- Understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and clean architecture principles
- Experience participating in code reviews
- Understanding of CI/CD and deployment processes
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good communication and collaboration skills
- Strong experience with Laravel
- Strong experience with Symfony 5.x / 6.x
Tech Stack
- Docker
- Laravel
- MySQL
- PHP
- Symfony
Benefits
- Work on modern backend and integration-heavy applications
- Collaborate with experienced engineering teams
- Gain exposure to Laravel, Symfony, cloud, and scalable architectures
- Contribute to technically demanding and long-term projects
- Be part of a structured and quality-focused development environment