Jobs Symfony

We are seeking a highly skilled PHP Developer to join our dynamic team, specializing in building and maintaining robust, high-performance web applications. If you have a strong background in Symfony, MySQL 8.0, Redis, MongoDB, and experience managing high-load and big data projects, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, and maintain web applications using PHP and Symfony.
• Design and optimize complex databases, primarily MySQL 8.0, ensuring high performance and scalability.
• Work with MongoDB for managing and optimizing unstructured data storage.
• Integrate and manage message queues using RabbitMQ for asynchronous processes.
• Utilize AWS cloud services (EC2, S3, RDS, etc.) to deploy and manage applications in a scalable, secure environment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and bugs.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to bring innovative solutions to the team.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a PHP Developer with a deep understanding of the Symfony framework.
• Expertise in MySQL 8.0, including performance optimization, indexing, and query optimization.
• Experience with message queue systems, particularly RabbitMQ.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services and infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of high-load and big data application development.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen eye for detail.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Previous experience in a DevOps environment.
• Understanding of front-end technologies (JavaScript, React, Vue.js) is a plus.

Duties and Responsibilities

• The development and long-term maintenance of web crawlers and scrapers — this will be the primary and strategic focus of the role
• Design, write, and maintain high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code in accordance with team standards and best practices
• Analyze, optimize, and significantly improve existing functionality with an eye toward performance, scalability, and reliability
• Drive technical decisions, evaluate trade-offs, and introduce new technologies and approaches when appropriate
• Solve complex, non-standard problems and take a proactive role in defining robust technical solutions
• Collaborate closely with other engineers, share expertise, and contribute to improving overall engineering quality
   

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience building and maintaining production-grade web crawlers, scrapers, and parsers (HTML parsing, HTTP protocol internals, and ’polite’ scraping principles: understanding real-user behavior and smart navigation, deep knowledge of what is perceived as aggressive bot crawling behavior by sites/Cloudflare-like firewalls to avoid this behavior and being efficient in getting data at the same time)
• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including work on complex production systems
• Deep understanding of browser internals and lifecycle: мulti-process architecture (Browser, Renderer, GPU); сritical Rendering Path, page lifecycle events, and performance timings; сlient-side storage (Cookies, LocalStorage, IndexedDB) and caching strategies.
• Deep understanding of modern software development principles, architectural patterns, and best practices
• Experience containerizing and deploying applications using Docker
• Linux background and confidence writing and maintaining scripts in Linux environments
• Strong feedback skills and the ability to contribute constructively to code reviews.
• Ability to work effectively with incomplete or ambiguous requirements.
• Proactivity: The ability to foresee and mitigate potential issues before they escalate into incidents.
   

Nice to Have

• Experience designing or working with high-load systems and large-scale data processing
• Hands-on experience with browser automation libraries: Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium and others
• Experience with Kubernetes (k8s) in production environments
• Python skills (used for tooling, data processing, or scraping)
• Experience with TypeScript
• Familiarity with Redis
   

What we offer

• 22 days of paid time off, plus your local national holidays
• Flexible work hours and a culture that trusts you to manage your time
• Private medical insurance or a medical allowance (depending on your location)
• Extended paid sick leave so you can fully recover without worry
• Career map with growth opportunities
• Support for wellbeing and L&D
• Best hardware for your work (team Apple)
• An award-winning product loved by thousands of customers worldwide
• A transparent, flexible culture with people at the core of everything we do
• Events that are actually fun

We are currently looking for a Senior Full Stack PHP Developer to join a professional German-based product company team that designs innovative eHealth solutions for hospitals.

You will work on a stable healthcare product, contributing to backend architecture and supporting frontend functionality where needed.

Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience with PHP development (8.4 is used)
• 3 years of experience with Symfony 4 or higher (6.4 is used)
• Experience with Doctrine, MariaDB
• Experience with Twig
• Experience with REST API
• Experience with Linux/Debian
• Knowledge of JavaScript, jQuery (up to 10–20% of tasks)
• Knowledge of SASS
• Good English language skills both written and spoken

Nice to have:

• Experience with Cypress
• Experience with Unit tests

Your tasks:

• Develop top-notch and maintainable software solutions, implementing modern engineering practices to ensure high product quality
• Engage in technical discussions to identify the best solutions and proactively propose innovative ideas
• Collaborate effectively with team members and management

What you can expect from us:

• Flexible working hours and a healthy work-life balance
• 24 paid vacation days per year + 11 public holidays + paid sick leave
• Fully remote cooperation (Ukraine or any EU country)
• PE accounting support (Cooperation is possible via Ukrainian PE (FOP) only)
• Modern equipment and a powerful laptop
• Flat structure with short decision-making cycles
• Direct collaboration with a German product company