Summary: The Senior PHP Engineer role involves developing and maintaining high-performance, secure Back End systems for a leading software company. This position is a long-term freelance opportunity with an initial 6-month contract, likely to extend, and is fully remote. The ideal candidate will have expertise in PHP and Symfony, along with a strong focus on unit testing and code quality. The role requires taking ownership of complex features and enhancing the developer experience through internal tooling.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain high-performance, secure Back End systems
• Take full ownership of complex features from design to deployment
• Enhance test coverage with a focus on unit testing best practices
• Refactor Legacy codebases using Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles
• Build internal tooling to improve developer experience and incident resolution
• Champion clean, well-documented, and maintainable code through thorough code reviews
• Ensure feature completeness with proper flags, logging, and monitoring

Key Skills:

• Proficiency in PHP
• Experience with Symfony framework
• Knowledge of Doctrine ORM
• Familiarity with PHPUnit for unit and functional testing
• Experience with GitLab CI for CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of Docker for containerization
• Experience with Grafana & Loki for monitoring
• Bonus: Experience with Rust or NodeJS

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: undetermined

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: IT