Senior PHP Symfony Backend Engineer – Platform & Infra

team.blue; Leiden; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

team.blue in the Netherlands (Leiden) is hiring a PHP Developer to help optimize our European cloud and hosting platform. You will join a Platforms team of about 20 colleagues across development, infrastructure and operations, focusing on backend PHP features and a microservices driven API layer.

You’ll own parts of the codebase, contribute to architecture decisions, and deepen your knowledge of Linux-based infrastructure and automation tools while collaborating with teams across Europe in a

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience as a PHP Developer.
• Extensive working experience with the Symfony framework.
• Willingness to deepen knowledge of infrastructure and related technologies.
• Interest in proposing new products and services on top of the platform.
• Strong ownership, proactive collaboration and clear communication in an international setting.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend PHP features for the cloud/hosting platform.
• Contribute to microservices architecture and internal APIs.
• Participate in analysis, architecture and technical decision making.
• Work with Linux-based infrastructure and automation tools.
• Collaborate with a Europe-wide team to scale the platform.

Skills

PHP

Symfony

English fluency

Tools

APIs (API Platform/OpenAPI)

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

Docker

Ansible AWX

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

Claude Code (AI tools)

Linux servers

Job description

team.blue in the Netherlands (Leiden) is hiring a PHP Developer to help optimize our European cloud and hosting platform. You will join a Platforms team of about 20 colleagues across development, infrastructure and operations, focusing on backend PHP features and a microservices driven API layer.

You’ll own parts of the codebase, contribute to architecture decisions, and deepen your knowledge of Linux-based infrastructure and automation tools while collaborating with teams across Europe in a