Senior Symfony & PHP Lead Engineer — Remote-First Backend

Smart Working; Sargodha; On-site; PKR 2,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fixed shifts (remote)

Laptop and assets provided

Mentorship and community

Long-term career growth

Job summary

Smart Working is seeking a Lead Symfony & PHP Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain core backend systems. You’ll work in an Agile team with product managers, designers, and engineers to ship scalable, tested features that meet real-world needs.

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 experience with PHP.
• 3+ years with Symfony.
• 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

• Develop backend features aligned 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

Communication

MongoDB

Design Patterns

Docker

Kubernetes

React

Node.js

TypeScript

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

React

Node.js

TypeScript

Job description

Smart Working is seeking a Lead Symfony & PHP Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain core backend systems. You’ll work in an Agile team with product managers, designers, and engineers to ship scalable, tested features that meet real-world needs.

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