Senior PHP Software Engineer in Romania
Summary
- We are looking for a Senior PHP Developer to join our team full-time in Romania.
- Location - Romania (Bucharest is preferable; We can consider candidates outside Bucharest like Cluj-Napoca and Timisoara)
- Important: Business trips up to 3-4 days are required once a month during the first 3 months, then they will travel occasionally once in each 3-5 months with a direct flight from Bucharest to Amsterdam.
- Direct Hiring; B2B contract in Romania
- Start - ASAP / somewhere in February
- Upper-Intermediate English.
About the role
Join our team as a Senior PHP Developer and play a key role in shaping the future of our client's backend platform. As part of a cross-functional development team, your work will directly impact scaling the platform to handle heavy loads and achieve global reach. Collaborating closely with our talented tech team, you'll bring fresh ideas—whether inspired by user feedback or market trends—and help us make smart, lasting decisions that drive success. The challenge: 1 million users rely on our platform, and we aim to scale to 50 million. Stability and scalability are critical as we enhance the framework, improve robustness, and optimize key features like authorization, routing, and component interaction. It’s a demanding role, but the reward is immense—you’ll shape our backend approach and elevate the experience for millions of users worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Refactor legacy code step by step to enhance performance and resilience.
- Help our full-stack developers improve their backend expertise through mentoring and training.
- Actively participate in multiple aspects of the SDLC, including planning, development, testing, and deployment.
- Collaborate with multiple product teams and our innovation lab to drive backend advancements.
Requirements
- Proven track record of 5+ years working with PHP with Symfony as a framework of choice
- A proactive approach to challenges - you know how to identify problems, propose solutions, and contribute to the team’s growth.
- Experience in improving scalability, performance & maintainability of code.
- You know how to build things - from scratch.
- Your English is solid—because clear communication keeps the team in sync!
Tech stack:
- The backend makes use of PHP with the Symfony framework.
- The code is hosted in a monorepo in GitLab and deployed with GitLab CI/CD.
- We use Docker for containerization purposes.
- We deploy in the cloud, using Scaleway as our cloud provider.
- We orchestrating and managing containerized applications through Kubernetes.