
Senior PHP & Symfony Software Engineer, (Remote, Full-Time) - [HR191]
at Smartworking
About Smart Working
At Smart Working, we believe the right job should do more than strengthen your CV it should challenge you, inspire you, and feel right every day. We connect experienced professionals with long-term, full-time remote roles where engineering excellence truly matters.
Our mission is to remove geographic barriers and match top talent with global teams building high-impact, mission-critical products. We partner with companies that value precision, ownership, and long-term growth, empowering our people to thrive both professionally and personally.
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About the Role
Important: Laravel-only experience is not qualifying; proven Symfony experience is mandatory!!!
We’re hiring a Senior PHP & Symfony Software Engineer to work on mission-critical backend systems where code quality, reliability, and accountability are non-negotiable. This role goes far beyond feature delivery; it’s about engineering craftsmanship, technical ownership, and building systems you can truly stand behind.
You’ll be part of a highly collaborative Agile team, working closely with product, QA, and other engineers across the full lifecycle from ticket definition and design through testing, review, and production deployment. This role is ideal for someone who values clean architecture, Test-Driven Development, thoughtful technical decisions, and mentoring others while building robust, scalable solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality backend systems using PHP and Symfony
- Own features end-to-end, from ticket creation and technical design to production release
- Write clean, strongly-typed, maintainable, and testable code that meets strict quality standards
- Apply design patterns thoughtfully and consistently
- Build and maintain comprehensive automated test coverage using PHPUnit and similar tools
- Follow and promote Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices
- Use static analysis, linters, and code quality tools to ensure reliability and consistency
- Participate actively in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and QA teams to deliver robust solutions
- Break down complex initiatives into well-defined, actionable tasks and guide implementation
- Monitor systems and participate in a rotating on-call schedule when required
- Promote secure coding practices and ensure code is free from known vulnerabilities
- Document architecture, decisions, and processes to support team-wide knowledge sharing
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute to a strong engineering culture
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience with PHP (7.4 / 8+)
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with the Symfony framework
- Strong understanding and practical use of design patterns
- Solid experience with unit and integration testing (PHPUnit, Behat, or similar)
- Hands-on experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Familiarity with static analysis tools (PHPStan, Psalm, or similar)
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, code coverage, and deployment workflows
- Excellent technical communication skills and ability to explain and defend technical decisions
- High ownership mindset and strong sense of accountability
Nice-to-Have
- Experience working with MongoDB
- Familiarity with JavaScript, React, Node.js, and/or TypeScript
- Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes
- Experience working on high-availability or mission-critical systems
Benefits
- Fixed Shifts: 12:00 PM - 9:30 PM IST (Summer) | 1:00 PM - 10:30 PM IST (Winter)
- No Weekend Work: Real work-life balance, not just words
- Day 1 Benefits: Laptop and full medical insurance provided
- Support That Matters: Mentorship, community, and forums where ideas are shared
- True Belonging: A long-term career where your contributions are valued

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About Astra:
Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.
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Role Overview:
As a back-end engineer you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc.
You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture.
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Roles & Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own.
- Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
- Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc.
- Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.
- Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability.
- Implement security and data protection measures.
- Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems.
- Ship code to production multiple times a day/week.
- Ensure timely delivery of the features.
- Test your own features, and write test cases for continuous automated testing.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices and standards.
What we are looking for:
- 3 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
- Strong background in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
- Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns.
- Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture.
- Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling.
- Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have).
- Experience with Agile methodologies.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
- Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
- Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.
- Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out.
What We offer:
- Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company, and working on hard problems that matter.
- Fully remote, agile working environment.
- Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle.
- A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks.
- Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
- Experience with the security side of things.
- Annual trips to beaches or mountains (next one is to Wayanad).
- Open and supportive culture.
- Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included.
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Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain server-side applications using PHP frameworks (such as Yii, Laravel, Symfony, and CodeIgniter) and other related technologies.
- Write clean, well-structured, and reusable code following industry best practices and coding standards.
- Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
- Design and implement secure and efficient APIs for data exchange with the front end and external services.
- Optimize application performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks, improving code efficiency, and implementing caching mechanisms.
- Ensure data integrity and implement proper validation and error-handling techniques.
- Collaborate with database administrators to design and optimize database schemas and queries.
- Conduct thorough testing and debugging of applications to ensure high-quality deliverables.
- Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in PHP development and related technologies.
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain code quality and improve team collaboration.
- Collaborate with the project management team to estimate project timelines and deliver work within specified deadlines.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, provide technical support and perform maintenance tasks as required.
Requirements:
- Proven work experience as a PHP Backend Developer or similar role.
- Strong proficiency in PHP and its frameworks (Yii, Laravel, Symfony, etc.) with a good understanding of object-oriented programming principles.
- Experience with frontend technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript) and their integration with backend systems.
- Familiarity with database systems, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB, and proficiency in writing efficient database queries.
- Knowledge of version control systems like Git for code collaboration and deployment.
- Familiarity with RESTful API development and integration of third-party APIs.
- Experience in optimizing application performance and implementing caching techniques.
- Understanding of security principles and best practices for web application development.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with strong attention to detail.
- Good communication and teamwork skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to work independently and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
About the Company
Ethics Infotech offers complete IT Outsourcing solutions to our customers with some specific services like ERP System, turnkey software solution for Pharma supply chain, Mobile Applications, Odoo/SAP, POS Machines, POS Systems e-commerce websites, Web Designing and development in India. We are full-service POS systems, ERP systems, Turnkey Software Solutions for Pharma Supply chain services, Odoo/SAP that partner with your venture to motivate plausibility. Our offices are Located at Various cities Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Dehradun, Gurugram & Ahmedabad.
Designation: PHP Developer
Location: Vadodara (On-Site)
Job Description:
Role & Responsibilities
- Work on PHP/Laravel themes and plug-in development project.
- Work on PHP/Laravel customization project according clients Requirements.
- Work includes coding, handling support-requests, unit testing via Debugging code and project documentation.
- Explain and guide the flow of product/project to customers.
Requirements
- Exp using PHP of Minimum 3 years
- Exp using Laravel / Symphony / CodeIgniter minimum 1 years
- A motivated self-starter
- Creative approach to solving problems
- Knowledge of different-different frameworks will be plus
- Must have knowledge of Short code and API integration
- Knowledge with MySQL
- Understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues
- Good Communication Skill candidate have high preference
- 3+ years of in design development using Angular, HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP.
- In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, Bootstrap, jQuery, REST Services & APIs.
- Experience with test-driven development and testing frameworks/libraries.
- Working knowledge of Git version control systems.
- Must have a notice period of less than 30 days.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and building the website back-ends.
- Creating the website architecture.
- Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration.
- Conducting website performance tests.
- Troubleshooting content issues.
- Building new features and plugins for existing products written in WordPress.
- Improvising and maintaining of various user facing dashboards & e-commerce apps.
Basic requirements:
- Minimum 3 years of experience as WordPress Developer.
- Proficiency in PHP and mysql.
- Should have expertise in WordPress theme customisation, OOPS, API fundamentals.
- Should have good knowledge of Jquery, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
- Experience in MVC patterns, building Web APIs, OOPS, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
- Knowledge of building WordPress plugin creation.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
Good to have:
- Experience in setting up and working with CI/CD pipelines.
- Basic DevOps.
- Experience with deploying and managing applications to web servers.
- Join a team of great technical professionals that work hard but have fun and enjoy developing state of the art product-based applications and websites.
- Use best practice coding standards and implement each deliverable.
- Write and manage program and Bug Fixes
- Construct and support integrations that are easy to manage, maintain, customize and configure; ensure overall reliability, availability, and high-performance code.
- Analyze system issues and problems and implement solutions rapidly.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously varying in sizes and scope
- Work in a fast-paced cross-functional team environment. Effectively handle time-critical issue and appropriately escalate at-risk items.
- Laravel/ Zend/ CakePHP/ CodeIgniter/ Symfony, or equivalent.
- Strong knowledge of OOPs Concepts.
- Computer Science/Software Engineering Bachelor’s degree or higher education.
- Experience in writing high performance and high scalable code using best practice and coding standards.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Excellent organizational and attention to detail.
- Good to have familiarity with NoSql DB, web servers (e.g. Apache), caching (Memcache / Redis), Cloud, NodeJs, Microservices architecture Familiar with agile software development methodologies (e.g. SCRUM / Agile / Kanban)
- Must have knowledge of MVC design patterns, XHTML/HTML5, PHP, CSS3, XML, MySQL/MSSQL, JavaScript jQuery, json objects, API, AJAX functionality and client-side validation.
- Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Knowledge of using version control software such as SVN or GIT will be preferable.
- Experience in either Mobile application or Data Integration with other apps would be preferred.
- 2-4 years of demonstrable hands-on work in web-based application development experiences in a professional environment, including interaction design for dynamic, data-driven applications (not HTML based website) delivered via the web, or the equivalent.








