Senior Symfony PHP Backend Engineer – Remote & Mentoring

Smart Working; Sindh; On-site; PKR 19,455,000 - 30,573,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fixed shifts

No weekend work

Laptop provided

Mentorship & community

Long-term career

Job summary

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

This role is perfect for someone who enjoys clean code, leading technical discussions, mentoring others, and shipping tested solutions that meet business needs.

Qualifications

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

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 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.
• Promote 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

communication

MongoDB

Design Patterns

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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

This role is perfect for someone who enjoys clean code, leading technical discussions, mentoring others, and shipping tested solutions that meet business needs.