Hybrid Senior Back End PHP Developer – Symfony

at GRADION

• Job title: Senior Back End PHP Developer – Symfony
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, PHP, Symfony
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cairo, Egypt

About the role

• Senior Back End PHP Developer at Gradion, enhancing growth through Digital Innovation and Deep Tech. Building applications from idea to production for ambitious businesses.

Responsibilities

• You will be joining an awesome team to build cool applications that serve millions of users, from idea to production.
• As our customers are typically ambitious foreign startups, you will have a chance to improve your English, learn about startup culture, and product mindset along the way. If you want to make a great impact on the world, this is your chance now.
• Manage full lifecycle customer projects with Agile methods.
• Developing strong relationships with customers, acting as the primary point of contact as well as managing stakeholder expectations, and always seeking solution improvement.
• Design, develop, and test an internal REST API.
• Design and implement scalable and robust applications.
• Analyze functional requirements and the creation of software design.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• Work closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root-cause analysis investigations.
• Write API documentation for better communication with front-end developers.

Requirements

• 5 years of overall software development experience, with an emphasis on web applications and back-end technologies, and work experience in PHP (strongly preferred with Symfony).
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full development life cycle (coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, operation, monitoring, etc.).
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git is preferred).
• Deep knowledge of web frameworks.
• Experience in unit testing frameworks.
• Experience in CI/CD methodologies.
• Professional experience working with cloud (either AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Working proficiency in English.

Benefits

• Laptop + full workstation setup
• Work closely with international, cross-regional teams
• Monthly budget for courses and continuous learning
• Ongoing feedback and career development support
• Flexible working arrangements
• Competitive salary
• Family health insurance
• Life insurance
• Special bonuses for life milestones (marriage, childbirth, etc.).