PHP / Symfony Developer

For our client in Amsterdam, we’re looking for someone who leads from the front to help our client build the foundation that this company will be based upon going forward. They have core systems that are critical to their business that are open-source PHP platforms that have been extensively customised to implement a lot of the business logic. They are bringing their development in-house and are going to wrap them in a Services Oriented Architecture.

That SOA boundary will be the way the rest of the proprietary systems can interact with these underlying systems and so the API architecture of the interface is critical.

We’re looking for an opinionated hands-on architect developer with strong views on API and interface design, who can bring best practice insights in PHP development and add their own unique perspectives into this team.

You’ll be joining a small team making core architectural decisions around how these enterprise systems (CRM, CMS, community forum) will be contained behind a secure API interface and how—behind that facade—the systems can be evolved independently and transparently to the rest of the components of the distributed back-end architecture.

We’re looking for:

• Outstanding technical skills in PHP

• Ability to quickly deliver new functionality to the business

• A rounded full-stack developer who brings insights from other languages

• Understanding of complex re-architecting projects

• A proponent of open-source, maybe with their own contributions

• Strong views on how PHP systems should reflect best practice

• Someone comfortable with robust discussions around design

This is a challenging role and we’re looking for someone who likes to take control of hard problems.

Our client is currently using PHP 7 and Symfony but they are open to someone who brings along a back-pack of other toolings, should they want to argue the case for better tools that support modern architectures.

This project is for at least 6 months, with options for extensions.