Senior PHP / Symfony Engineer

Info on the Senior PHP / Symfony Engineer role

Ready to take the next step in your international career? We can support you! Ubiminds is a GPTW-certified, people-first company that partners with American software product companies to scale their global teams. We curate top LATAM talent and connect professionals with long-term, high-impact opportunities while providing full employer-of-record support. In this opportunity, you’ll join a growing engineering team working on integration-heavy PHP platforms, focused on scalability, security, and system evolution.

Challenge

We’re looking for a Senior PHP/Symfony Engineer (5–7+ years) to help strengthen the foundation of a growing PHP team. This role requires deep expertise in Symfony 5/6, strong system design capabilities, and experience working in API-driven, integration-heavy environments. You’ll maintain and evolve existing production systems while contributing to architectural decisions that impact scalability, security, and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities:

• Strong expertise in Symfony 5/6, including bundles, services, dependency injection, and configuration best practices.
• Solid background in system design and architecture, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
• Extensive experience with integrations (third-party APIs, internal services, data feeds, event-driven workflows).
• Proficient in database design and performance optimization (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Security-focused, with experience in authentication, authorization, and handling sensitive PII.
• Experienced in maintaining and evolving existing Symfony systems while delivering new features.
• Comfortable owning end-to-end technical decisions, from architecture to implementation.
• Familiar with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud environments.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and stakeholder communication skills.

Mandatory Skills:

• 5–7+ years of professional experience with PHP.
• Strong expertise in Symfony 5/6.
• Solid background in system design and architecture decisions.
• Extensive experience with API integrations and service-to-service communication.
• Experience designing and optimizing MySQL or PostgreSQL databases.
• Strong understanding of security best practices (authentication, authorization, data protection, PII handling).
• Experience maintaining and evolving existing production codebases.
• Proven ability to debug and resolve complex distributed system issues.
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-hosted environments.
• Strong English communication skills and comfort working with US-based teams.
• Ability to take ownership and make pragmatic technical decisions.

Nice to Have:

• Advanced cloud platform experience (AWS or similar).
• Exposure to high-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in compliance-heavy environments.
• Leadership or mentoring experience.
• Advanced DevOps practices and infrastructure familiarity.

Team & Environment:

• Growing PHP engineering team.
• Collaboration with US-based engineers (New York timezone alignment required).
• High ownership culture with architectural influence.
• Systems that handle sensitive data require compliance awareness and security maturity.
• Strong focus on foundational, senior-level hires to shape the future of the team.

About Ubiminds

Our Culture

• People First. We are all about people!
• Challenge yourself. There’s always room for improvement and continuous improvement is in our essence.
• Make it happen. Be ready to take challenges as they come. It’s all about attitude and commitment.
• We’re in this together. We work as a team, thrive as a team, and evolve as a team.
• Averaging on awesome. We work hard to deliver high-quality services and look forward to exceeding expectations.
• Keep it real. We promise you honesty, transparency, and openness, regardless of the situation.

Perks and Benefits

As a Full Stack Engineer - NET / Angular @Ubiminds, you:

• You are placed in a product-based company, with the same treatment as their full-time employees.
• Have our full back-office support, from career guidance to HR and concierge services.
• Enjoy our remote-first policy – we are a distributed team, after all.
• Get your own MacBook (none of that "bring your own device" stuff here).
• Have access to growth opportunities with other amazing technology professionals, through tech talks, chapter meetings, and even remote happy hours for tons of fun!
• Improve your English through free lessons with a native English speaker - get to the next level on your communication skills!
• Candidate Referral bonus (promote Ubi to your tech friends, and get paid for it!)
• Miss working in the office? Our cool Florianópolis headquarters is available, whenever you want, with weekly quick massages & tasty snacks, soft drinks, and games

How our process works

1. Interview with Tech Recruiter (chat about the job opening and your experiences)
2. Technical Assessment
3. Client Interview
4. Offer (yay)