Senior PHP Backend Engineer (Symfony) - AI-Driven
Shiftbase, a Netherlands-based workforce software company, seeks a Senior PHP Backend Engineer to join its 7-person backend team building a platform serving hundreds of thousands of daily users. Day-to-day: writing clean code, owning features end-to-end, and modernizing the system with Symfony, hexagonal architecture, DDD, and OpenAPI while mentoring peers and leveraging AI tooling.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Netherlands
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Senior-level PHP backend engineering experience
- Symfony experience
- Ability to mentor peers and help shape the system
- Comfortable leveraging AI tooling in the development workflow
Nice to have
- Familiarity with hexagonal architecture and domain-driven design (DDD)
- Experience with OpenAPI
Full description
Shiftbase is a Netherlands-based workforce software company seeking a backend engineer to join a seven-person backend group. You will work on a platform serving hundreds of thousands of users daily, currently modernizing with Symfony, hexagonal architecture, DDD, and OpenAPI.
You will help shape the system, mentor peers, and leverage AI tooling to push for high-quality, scalable engineering. You’ll collaborate with senior engineers, write clean code, and own meaningful features end-to-end while