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Lisboa, Porto · Fully Remote

Senior Backend Developer – PHP/Symfony – APIs & Connectors

Our client helps companies upskill their teams through a curated platform of high-quality learning content, offering diverse, always up-to-date resources to support continuous learning.

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🌟 Opportunity: Senior Backend Developer – PHP/Symfony – APIs & Connectors

📁 About our client:
Our client is on a mission to transform how companies support continuous learning and upskilling. By curating high-quality learning content from across the web and trusted publishers, they help organizations empower their teams with accessible, updated, and diverse educational resources. With a strong focus on innovation and user experience, the company operates in a dynamic, international environment and is scaling fast.

🚀 Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and integrate robust, maintainable APIs using best practices and regular code reviews

  • Ensure application performance, security, and maintainability in production environments (metrics, logs, alerting)

  • Proactively address identified vulnerabilities and support application observability

  • Contribute to architecture decisions, balancing technical trade-offs and delivery needs

  • Lead cross-functional technical initiatives including planning, delivery roadmap, and risk monitoring

  • Collaborate closely with the Product team to clarify needs, propose scalable solutions, and iterate efficiently

👤 Profile sought:

🎓 Degree: Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

💼 Experience: 5+ years in backend development, ideally in fast-paced environments

💻 Tech stack:

  • PHP 8.3+ with Symfony 6.3 (including Symfony Messenger)

  • API design & development, Postman, and API documentation familiarity

  • Messaging systems like RabbitMQ

  • Databases: MySQL & PostgreSQL

  • Hosting and infrastructure on AWS

  • Testing: TDD with PhpUnit, BDD with Behat

  • Knowledge of DDD, Clean Architecture, Command Bus, and CQS is appreciated

🌐 Languages: Proficient in English (French is a plus)

✅ You enjoy tackling complex technical problems, contributing to architecture decisions, and working in an agile, collaborative team

🌍 Benefits & Culture:

🎯 A mission-driven work environment focused on innovation, team collaboration, and continuous learning

✨ Plus: An interest in EdTech or experience with AI assistants (e.g., Windsurf, Cursor) is a welcome bonus

💼 Department: Tech

📍 Location: Remote first > BASED in Portugal Mandatory


📆 Start date: ASAP

Locations
Lisboa, Porto
Remote status
Fully Remote
Lisboa, Porto · Fully Remote

Senior Backend Developer – PHP/Symfony – APIs & Connectors

Our client helps companies upskill their teams through a curated platform of high-quality learning content, offering diverse, always up-to-date resources to support continuous learning.

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