Senior PHP Symfony Engineer

📋 Description

• Take ownership of backend development within the core Symfony application, becoming fully
• Review and critically assess code written by the team and AI tools, challenging proposed approaches
• Support the migration from Symfony 6.1 to Symfony 7 by resolving versioning, compatibility and
• Improve the application’s performance, scalability and maintainability, making it easier and safer
• Work across the Angular front end, TypeScript and Python-based AI agent services, collaborating
• Be comfortable reading and understanding the Angular/TypeScript codebase, even though the role is

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of commercial software engineering experience, including at least 5 years working with PHP.
• 7+ years of Expert-level PHP development experience.
• 3+ years of recent commercial experience with Symfony 6.x/7 at Advanced level. Strong senior-level
• 4+ years of Advanced experience in backend architecture, system design and scalability.
• 2+ years of Advanced experience using AI development tools critically, including reviewing
• 5+ years of Advanced MySQL experience, including database schema design and query optimisation.