Backend Engineer Php / Symfony / Ai-Native Development

Restaurant Supply Co; Philippines; On-site; PHP 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Restaurant Supply Co. is seeking a Backend Engineer to build scalable PHP/Symfony services, APIs, and internal tooling in an AI-enabled environment. You will design and implement robust backend systems while focusing on performance and reliability.

Responsibilities include API design, integration work, and applying AI tooling to accelerate development. You will collaborate with QA and fellow engineers to deliver high-quality software with strong ownership and security focus.

Qualifications

• Proficient in PHP and Symfony for backend services.
• Strong database management and query optimization.
• Experience with CI/CD and multiple environments.
• Architectural design and scalable systems.
• Building low-latency, efficient backend services.
• Experience with API design and integrations.
• Proficient in debugging and automated testing.
• Familiar with AI coding tools for development.
• Ability to work independently with ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable PHP/Symfony backend services.
• Develop reliable APIs, workers, batch jobs, and integrations.
• Improve performance, latency, throughput, and resource use.
• Decide on data flow, queues, caching, and service boundaries.
• Produce clean, maintainable, tested code.
• Diagnose production issues across code, DBs, queues, logs, and external services.
• Leverage AI tools to speed development, testing and refactoring.
• Review AI-generated code for quality and security.
• Collaborate with QA and other engineers to deliver reliability.
• Take on other duties as assigned.

Skills

PHP

Symfony

Database management

CI/CD

System design

Low-latency backend

Caching & queues

API design

Testing & debugging

AI coding tools

Independent work

Code review

Tools

GitHub Actions

Git

Doctrine

Redis

PostgreSQL

Linux

Job description

Backend Engineer PHP / Symfony / AI-Native Development

Company : Restaurant Supply Co Job Type : Full Time Philippines

Job Description - Backend Engineer PHP / Symfony / AI-Native Development

About the Role

Backend Engineer — PHP / Symfony / AI-Native Development

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend services utilizing PHP/Symfony.
• Develop reliable APIs, workers, batch jobs, integrations, and internal tooling.
• Enhance system performance, latency, throughput, and resource efficiency.
• Make informed architectural decisions regarding data flow, background processing, queues, caching, and service boundaries.
• Produce clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
• Diagnose complex production issues across application code, databases, queues, logs, and external services.
• Employ AI tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or similar to expedite development, testing, debugging, and refactoring.
• Critically review AI-generated code for correctness, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with QA and other engineers to deliver reliable systems.
• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills

• Extensive experience with PHP.
• Proficient in Symfony.
• Strong knowledge and skills in database management.
• Experience with CI/CD (GitHub, GitHub Actions, Multiple Environments Management, Git).
• Solid understanding of software architecture and system design.
• Experience in building low-latency, efficient backend systems.
• Strong grasp of databases, query optimization, caching, queues, and background processing.
• Experience with API design and third-party integrations.
• Robust debugging and performance profiling skills.
• Experience with automated testing.
• Proficient in utilizing AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or similar.
• Exhibit high ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to work independently.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Doctrine, Redis, or similar technologies.
• Experience with Linux/server operations.
• Experience with distributed systems or high-volume data processing.
• Background in E-commerce, ERP, CRM, or data synchronization.