Staff PHP/Symphony Software Engineer

wizeline; United States; Remoto; USD 150.000 - 240.000; Tempo integral

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

Flexible environment

Professional development

Global opportunities

Total rewards

Resumo da vaga

Wizeline is seeking a hands-on Staff/Lead engineer to modernize critical PHP applications and progressively migrate functionality toward a scalable system.

You will define migration plans, build integrations across PHP and modern services, and mentor engineers while leveraging AI tools to speed development.

Qualificações

• Strong staff- or lead-level engineering background with independent technical direction.
• Proven ability to maintain, debug, and safely refactor legacy PHP apps (Symfony or native PHP).
• Experience across full-stack technologies and modern API design.

Responsabilidades

• Define pragmatic migration plans, system boundaries, and API contracts to support modernization while protecting business continuity.
• Debug production issues, improve reliability, and refactor high-risk areas of complex PHP applications.
• Investigate undocumented rules around contracts, commissions, rights, and payments, then shape them into modular designs.
• Build and guide integrations across PHP and modern services/frontends, including Symfony, Node.js, Next.js, microservices, and BFF patterns.
• Set API direction using REST, GraphQL, and API gateways; explain trade-offs and risks to partners.
• Use AI-assisted development tools in daily coding, debugging, refactoring, and mentoring as the team grows.

Conhecimentos

Staff-level engineering

Legacy PHP maintenance

Full-stack experience

API design

Mentoring engineers

AI-assisted development tools

Ferramentas

Symfony

Node.js

Next.js

API gateways

Descrição da vaga

Role overview

Lead the hands-on modernization of business-critical applications built on legacy PHP. The role combines Staff-level architectural direction with direct engineering work: understanding existing business rules, stabilizing critical workflows, and moving functionality incrementally toward a maintainable, scalable system.

Responsibilities

• Define pragmatic migration plans, system boundaries, and API contracts that support modernization while protecting business continuity.
• Debug production issues, improve reliability, and refactor high-risk areas of complex PHP applications.
• Investigate undocumented rules around contracts, commissions, rights, and payments, then shape them into modular designs.
• Build and guide integrations across PHP and modern services or frontends, including Symfony, Node.js, Next.js, microservices, and BFF patterns.
• Set API direction using approaches such as REST, GraphQL, and API gateways; explain technical trade-offs and risks to business and engineering partners.
• Use AI-assisted coding tools in daily development and identify ways to improve engineering speed and workflows; mentor and support additional engineers as the work grows.

Requirements

• Staff- or Lead-level engineering experience, with the judgment to set technical direction independently while remaining hands-on.
• Strong experience maintaining, debugging, and safely refactoring legacy PHP applications, including Symfony or native PHP.
• Full-stack experience and practical familiarity with Symfony, Node.js, Next.js, and modern API design.
• A track record of incrementally modernizing legacy systems while maintaining service continuity and managing technical risk.
• Ability to uncover complex or undocumented business logic and turn it into clear, maintainable software designs.
• Regular hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, refactoring, research, or technical analysis.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with talent, entertainment, agency management, rights management, or related platforms.

Benefits and work setup

The source describes a flexible, collaborative environment, professional development, global opportunities, and total rewards. Specific benefits depend on employment type and location.