Senior Symfony / PHP Engineer

3Amigos; Lahore; On-site; PKR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

3Amigos is seeking a Senior Symfony / PHP Engineer in Lahore to build, modernize, and maintain Symfony platforms, APIs, and complex PHP systems. You will join a senior engineering crew delivering for payment, tax, SaaS, and enterprise platforms, handling new modules, modernization, upgrades, queues, and production support.

You'll design and ship maintainable Symfony and modern PHP features, audit legacy apps, and build stable APIs and background workflows.

Qualifications

• Must have production experience with Symfony and modern PHP.
• Strong knowledge of Doctrine, SQL, APIs, testing, and Git workflows.
• Ability to reason about architecture, upgrades, and long-term maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship maintainable Symfony and modern PHP features.
• Audit and modernize legacy applications without unnecessary rewrites.
• Build stable APIs, integrations, queues, and background workflows.
• Review code, document decisions, and communicate progress clearly.
• Support safe releases with tests, observability, and rollback plans.

Skills

Symfony

PHP

Doctrine

SQL

APIs

Git workflows

Tools

Docker

CI/CD

Cloud operations

Job description

Senior Symfony / PHP Engineer

Build, modernize, and maintain long-lived Symfony platforms, APIs, and integration-heavy PHP systems.

The role

Join the senior engineering crew behind complex Symfony delivery for payment, tax, SaaS, and enterprise platforms. The work includes new modules, careful legacy modernization, framework upgrades, APIs, queues, and production support.

What you will do

• Design and ship maintainable Symfony and modern PHP features.
• Audit and modernize legacy applications without unnecessary rewrites.
• Build stable APIs, integrations, queues, and background workflows.
• Review code, document decisions, and communicate progress clearly.
• Support safe releases with tests, observability, and rollback plans.

What you bring

• Strong production experience with Symfony and modern PHP.
• Practical knowledge of Doctrine, SQL, APIs, testing, and Git workflows.
• Ability to reason about architecture, upgrades, and long-term maintenance.
• Clear written and spoken English for direct client collaboration.

Useful extras

• Symfony certification
• Messenger or event-driven systems
• Docker, CI/CD, or cloud operations

We welcome applicants from different backgrounds. If your experience is close but not identical, explain the work you have shipped and the decisions you owned.

Full-time

• Lahore, Pakistan