Remote Senior PHP/Symfony Architect — Catalogue & Quoting

Restaurant Supply, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 78,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote in Europe

Job summary

RestaurantSupply.com is seeking a Senior Full Stack PHP Developer to own the architecture of our product catalogue and quoting platform. You will design scalable data models, build the PHP/Symfony backend, and create REST APIs to support complex product information at scale.

This remote role across Europe emphasizes data ingestion pipelines, data normalization, and reliable crawling/scraping to feed rich product data.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional software development experience.
• Expert-level hands-on experience with PHP 8 and Symfony.
• Proven experience building or maintaining product information management (PIM) systems, product catalogue platforms, or comparable product data platforms.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale data ingestion pipelines, ideally involving 1 million or more records.
• Strong data modeling skills and deep experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and ORM frameworks such as Doctrine.
• Hands-on experience with asynchronous processing, message queues, and background jobs.
• Strong knowledge of caching systems such as Redis.
• Experience building reliable web crawling and scraping systems.
• Solid experience designing and consuming REST APIs.
• Practical experience with production monitoring, logging, error tracking, and troubleshooting.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to take ownership of complex technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture of the product catalogue and quoting platform, designing for scalability, maintainability, reliability, and observability.
• Design robust data models for products, variants, specifications, pricing, configurable options, accessories, and discounts.
• Build and maintain the PHP/Symfony backend, including REST APIs and integrations.
• Establish development standards, automated testing practices, and architectural patterns that support long-term maintainability.
• Design and maintain data ingestion pipelines that collect and process large volumes of manufacturer product information.
• Build reliable web crawling and scraping systems to gather product specifications, descriptions, images, and other relevant data.
• Develop data normalization, validation, deduplication, and enrichment processes to create consistent, accurate product records from multiple sources.
• Design mechanisms to identify incomplete or inconsistent records, handle ingestion failures, and support efficient product data review and correction.
• Build scalable processes for initial imports, incremental updates, and ongoing product data maintenance.
• Implement asynchronous processing and background jobs using Symfony Messenger and message queues.
• Develop caching strategies using Redis or similar technologies while maintaining data consistency.
• Design robust failure handling, retries, and recovery processes for ingestion pipelines and background workers.
• Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, error tracking, and alerting to maintain production reliability.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and continuously improve application performance and resource utilization.
• Build quoting functionality that supports projects, line items, pricing, markup, and customer-ready quotes.
• Develop and maintain REST APIs that support the catalogue and quoting experience.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to translate product data requirements and quoting workflows into practical technical solutions.
• Work closely with existing developers and colleagues responsible for reviewing product information.
• Take ownership of technical challenges from initial design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing optimization.
• Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, improve data quality, and reduce operational complexity.
• Evaluate and use AI coding tools and other technologies where they can improve development efficiency and product quality.

Skills

PHP 8

Symfony

PIM systems

Data ingestion pipelines

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

Redis

Web crawling

Asynchronous processing

CI/CD

Tools

Symfony

Doctrine ORM

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

RestaurantSupply.com is seeking a Senior Full Stack PHP Developer to own the architecture of our product catalogue and quoting platform. You will design scalable data models, build the PHP/Symfony backend, and create REST APIs to support complex product information at scale.

This remote role across Europe emphasizes data ingestion pipelines, data normalization, and reliable crawling/scraping to feed rich product data.