Symfony PHP Developer - Microservices & Data Pipelines

Other Media; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Discretionary work/life balance day

Pension scheme

Regular career planning

Job summary

Other Media, a leading digital agency focused on transforming the sports industry, seeks a skilled Full Stack PHP Developer to maintain and extend scalable backend services across Drupal and Symfony components.

You'll collaborate with product, UX, and project teams to deliver fast, interconnected platform features, data pipelines, and analytics tooling, while contributing to tooling, testing infrastructure, and secure deployments.

Qualifications

• Excellent Symfony v7+ knowledge and experience.
• Excellent knowledge of Symfony components and their design patterns.
• Excellent knowledge and experience with AWS services (SQS, Step Functions, Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda).
• Experience developing event-driven applications and shared PubSub pipelines.
• Experience using Serverless Framework or similar.
• Excellent SQL knowledge, especially optimisation and indexes.
• Experience designing well-documented internal API contracts.
• Experience with OpenSearch querying.
• Experience using GitHub Actions and Claude/Copilot CLI.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and Git/GitHub proficiency.
• Security awareness and knowledge of OWASP.
• Bash/zsh scripting skills.
• Experience setting up secure LEMP hosting with Linux, Nginx, PHP, and caching layers is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve all existing backend services.
• Maintain data pipelines and analytics integration.
• Collaborate with Drupal, Magento, Frontend, iOS and Android teams on API contracts.
• Design and implement scalable Symfony-based backend features from requirements to delivery.
• Participate in code reviews across teams.
• Lead end-to-end testing for quality delivery.
• Develop and maintain Drupal/Symfony integration modules.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines, tests, linting, and automated checks.
• Ensure secure deployment processes.
• Assist operations with daily monitoring for issues.
• Provide on-call support on a rotation basis.

Skills

Symfony

AWS services

Event-driven architecture

Serverless Framework

SQL optimization

API design

OpenSearch

GitHub Actions

PHP

Git

Tools

Docker

Nginx

Redis/Memcached

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Other Media, a leading digital agency focused on transforming the sports industry, seeks a skilled Full Stack PHP Developer to maintain and extend scalable backend services across Drupal and Symfony components.

You'll collaborate with product, UX, and project teams to deliver fast, interconnected platform features, data pipelines, and analytics tooling, while contributing to tooling, testing infrastructure, and secure deployments.