Senior Backend Integration Engineer (PHP/Symfony) Remote UK

RedTech Recruitment Ltd.; United States; A distancia; USD 74.000 - 94.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Performance bonus

Share options

Paid weekend on-call rota

Descripción de la vacante

RedTech Recruitment Ltd. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a growing, integration-led SaaS company. This hands-on role focuses on building and maintaining connections with external partners using PHP and Symfony, while also contributing to AWS infrastructure.

You will design and implement partner integrations, ensure reliability via testing and CI/CD, and work remotely from the UK with occasional travel to London for meetings.

Formación

• Proven production backend experience with PHP
• Commercial Symfony experience in production apps/services
• Experience building and maintaining multiple integrations with external partners
• Experience taking integrations through development, testing, launch and production support
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth, rate limiting, retries, idempotency, queues and asynchronous processing
• Experience building adapters or transformation layers between external systems
• Experience monitoring production integrations and investigating failures
• Production AWS experience including containers, monitoring, infrastructure as code and incident response
• Strong CI/CD and automated testing practices
• Ability to adapt integrations when partner APIs change
• Experience working autonomously in startup/scale-up environments
• Pragmatic engineering balancing quality and delivery
• Willingness to take long-term ownership of integrations after launch
• UK-based with right to work; visa sponsorship not available

Responsabilidades

• Design, build and maintain a portfolio of integrations with external software platforms
• Develop partner-specific connectors using PHP and Symfony
• Translate external data structures into reliable internal formats
• Take integrations through development, sandbox testing, launch and ongoing support
• Maintain existing integrations as external APIs, schemas and authentication requirements change
• Investigate production failures across internal services and third-party platforms
• Build reliable integration workflows using webhooks, queues and asynchronous processing
• Develop backend platform and API features across a microservices-based environment
• Improve automated testing, observability and CI/CD quality gates
• Contribute to the operation and development of the company’s AWS infrastructure
• Participate in a paid weekend on-call rota supporting urgent integration issues
• Contribute opinions to technical and architectural decisions as the platform grows

Conocimientos

PHP

Symfony

REST APIs

Webhooks

AWS

CI/CD

Testing

Data transformation

Asynchronous processing

Herramientas

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Descripción del empleo

RedTech Recruitment Ltd. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a growing, integration-led SaaS company. This hands-on role focuses on building and maintaining connections with external partners using PHP and Symfony, while also contributing to AWS infrastructure.

You will design and implement partner integrations, ensure reliability via testing and CI/CD, and work remotely from the UK with occasional travel to London for meetings.