Remote Senior Symfony PHP Engineer | Backend & APIs

Smart Working; Lahore; Remote; PKR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop provided

No weekend work

Day 1 benefits

Mentorship and community

Job summary

Smart Working is hiring a Senior Symfony & PHP Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain core backend systems. You will work in an Agile team with product managers, designers, and engineers to ship scalable features that solve real-world problems.

The role suits someone who leads technical discussions, mentors others, and ships tested solutions that meet business needs, in a remote-first environment with global teams.

Qualifications

• : 5+ years of PHP experience
• 3+ years of Symfony experience
• 2+ years writing unit tests with PHPUnit
• Excellent communication in cross-functional teams
• Strong experience with MongoDB
• Strong experience with Design Patterns (OOP)

Responsibilities

• Design and 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 with product, design, and QA teams
• Monitor systems and respond to issues on a rotating on-call schedule
• Break down large projects into manageable tasks and guide others

Skills

5+ years PHP

3+ years Symfony

2+ years PHPUnit

Excellent communication

MongoDB

Object Oriented Design Patterns

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Smart Working is hiring a Senior Symfony & PHP Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain core backend systems. You will work in an Agile team with product managers, designers, and engineers to ship scalable features that solve real-world problems.

The role suits someone who leads technical discussions, mentors others, and ships tested solutions that meet business needs, in a remote-first environment with global teams.