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Senior Full-Stack PHP Developer

Senior Full-Stack PHP Developer

HI Technology & Innovation • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
4 days ago
Job description

Senior Full-Stack PHP Developer
Contract Remote (South Africa) Full-Time Hours

About the Role

Were looking for a Senior Full-Stack PHP Developer to join one of our clients in a fast-moving applications team during an exciting period of platform growth and delivery. Youll work across a customer-facing web platform and its APIs building new features integrating third-party services and surfacing new data and reporting experiences for end users.

This is a full-stack role and youll be embedded directly into our clients team joining daily standups working within established processes and tooling and picking up work across the backlog from backend PHP/Symfony development through to React/TypeScript UI work. Were looking for experienced professionals who can get up to speed quickly and start delivering with minimal ramp-up time.

What Youll Be Working On

  • Building and improving customer-facing features across a large established PHP/Symfony web application backed by MySQL

  • Developing new UI components and views in React/TypeScript

  • Exposing new data and reporting through portal pages reporting views and API layers

  • Integrating third-party services via their APIs and SDKs and maintaining clean abstraction layers

  • Enhancing and extending the existing PHP API layer to support new platform features

  • Full-stack delivery across backend and frontend picking up whatever the backlog needs

The Tech Stack

Backend

  • PHP with Symfony clean code architecture not just framework familiarity

  • Doctrine ORM

  • MySQL (production and read replicas)

  • AWS-hosted served via Apache

Frontend

  • React built in TypeScript

  • JavaScript and CSS; some legacy Vue

Testing

  • PHPUnit for unit testing

  • Playwright for UI/E2E testing

What Were Looking For

  • Strong commercial PHP experience ideally with Symfony or a comparable modern PHP framework with a solid grasp of clean API design and architecture

  • Solid SQL skills: writing and optimising queries against large datasets comfortable working with an ORM. MySQL experience is a plus; strong Postgres experience is also acceptable

  • Proven experience building and consuming REST APIs including third-party integrations

  • Comfortable working on AWS-hosted applications

  • Frontend competence in TypeScript/JavaScript sufficient to contribute across the full stack

  • Strong engineering discipline version control unit testing code review and clear written communication for a remote embedded team

  • Secure coding awareness: you should write to a standard that passes automated static analysis and secrets scanning as part of the CI/CD pipeline

Nice to Have

  • React experience strongly valued; without it the focus would be on PHP/Symfony API and legacy portal work

  • React Native awareness some work feeds from a driver-facing mobile app

  • Exposure to telematics IoT or high-volume data platforms

  • Experience modernising or re-platforming legacy applications

  • Familiarity with agentic coding tools such as Cursor or Claude Code

  • Docker working familiarity expected at senior level

  • Python not needed for this engagement but a longer-term plus

Ways of Working

This is a fully remote engagement but requires guaranteed overlap with UK business hours for daily standups and team collaboration. Youll be embedded directly in the team this is not a hand-off or black-box delivery model. We value pragmatic delivery-focused engineers who are comfortable in large established codebases and focused on shipping.


Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1

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Senior Full-Stack PHP Developer • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa