PHP Software Engineer

Our client is a fast-growing cybersecurity product company rethinking how teams manage and share sensitive access. Their platform is trusted by 40,000+ organisations across 50+ countries and is focused on modern architecture, open source, privacy, and security.

• Experience building backend applications in production with PHP
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals with a modern framework such as CakePHP, Symfony or Laravel
• Ability to break down complex problems and design simple, robust solutions
• Good testing habits and attention to quality
• Comfort working across product, engineering and implementation questions — not just executing tickets
• Strong collaboration skills, openness to feedback, and a low-ego working style
• Interest in security, privacy, or building trustworthy software systems

Nice to have:

• Experience working on security-sensitive applications or authentication/access-control problems
• Exposure to cryptography-related systems or secure integrations
• Experience with OpenAPI or well-structured public-facing APIs
• Experience maintaining long-lived software products
• Experience with directory integrations or identity systems such as LDAP, Active Directory, OAuth, JWT, SCIM or WebAuthn
• Experience contributing to open-source projects
• Familiarity with another language such as JavaScript, Bash, Python, Go or Rust

• Build and improve backend services and API workflows across product suite
• Translate functional and product requirements into clear, reliable technical solutions
• Work on business logic, access control, integrations and security-sensitive application flows
• Help maintain and improve code quality, test coverage, performance and backward compatibility
• Contribute to technical design discussions and identify opportunities to simplify or strengthen the system over time
• Collaborate with product, support, security and engineering peers to refine and deliver solutions
• Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing across the team