Senior PHP Developer - fully remote within Europe (m/f/d)

• 5+ years of experience in back-end development delivering production-ready applications.
• Strong expertise in PHP, software design principles, and scalable architecture.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Symfony.
• Routine hands-on experience using agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor on production code, beyond IDE autocomplete.
• Apply specification and verification discipline, closing the loop with plans, tests, and blocking checks rather than trusting generated output.
• Strong context management and the ability to review agent-generated code.
• Proficiency with Git and modern collaborative development workflows.
• Clear and effective communication, especially when collaborating with a distributed global team.

Nice to have:

• Experience with MySQL and ORM frameworks such as Doctrine.
• Experience making a large legacy codebase agent-friendly or working with MCP servers.

• Design and develop scalable backend services using PHP and Symfony, ensuring platform performance, stability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, QA engineers, and developers to bring ideas from concept to launch.
• Participate in code reviews to improve code quality, strengthen architecture, and support team learning.
• Improve the conventions, hooks, and review automation used by coding agents.
• Own features from concept through implementation, optimization, and continuous improvement.

• Fully remote work is available within Europe.