Lead Symfony & PHP Engineer (Remote-First)

Smart Working; Lahore; On-site; PKR 2,000,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fixed shifts

No weekend work

Day 1 benefits

Mentorship & community

Long-term career growth

Job summary

Smart Working, a remote-first tech company, is hiring a Lead Symfony & PHP Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain the core backend systems of our products. You’ll collaborate in an Agile team with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver scalable, reliable features that solve real-world problems.

This role rewards clean code, technical leadership, mentoring, and shipping tested solutions that meet business needs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with PHP.
• 3+ years hands-on experience with Symfony.
• 2+ years writing unit tests with PHPUnit.
• Excellent communication skills in cross-functional teams.
• Strong experience with MongoDB.
• Strong understanding of Object Oriented Design Patterns.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend features that align with business goals and customer needs.
• Maintain and improve test coverage using PHPUnit.
• Build scalable, testable APIs and backend systems.
• Write clean, maintainable code that meets agreed quality standards.
• Review requirements and provide technical input and feedback.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and QA teams.
• Monitor systems and respond to issues as part of a rotating on-call schedule.
• Break down larger projects into manageable tasks and guide others through implementation.
• Participate in code reviews and offer constructive feedback.
• Continuously improve processes and suggest technical enhancements.
• Secure coding practices and ensure code is free of known vulnerabilities.
• Document features, processes, and architecture for team-wide knowledge sharing.

Skills

PHP

Symfony

PHPUnit

MongoDB

Design patterns

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Smart Working, a remote-first tech company, is hiring a Lead Symfony & PHP Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain the core backend systems of our products. You’ll collaborate in an Agile team with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver scalable, reliable features that solve real-world problems.

This role rewards clean code, technical leadership, mentoring, and shipping tested solutions that meet business needs.