PHP/Symfony Developer

Role: PHP/Symfony Developer
(backend oriented fullstack)

Location:
Lisbon, Portugal
(hybrid, 1 day per week at the office)

Start Date:
January 2026

Salary:
Competitive with benefits

About the Role

We're looking for a highly skilled
PHP/Symfony Developer
to join our dynamic development team. You'll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining a robust web application built using modern PHP and the Symfony framework.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain an applications built using
  Symfony 6.x+
  (or similar framework) and
  PHP 8.x+
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs that power our frontend, our mobile applications and several customer facing integrations
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including DevOps, our Platform teams and product managers
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following best practices
• Optimize for performance, always keeping security in mind
• Participate in code reviews
• Work under an Agile/Scrum environment, following sprint plannings, estimations and retros

Required Technical Skills

Core Technologies

• 2+ years
  of software development experience
• PHP 8.x+
  expertise with strong OOP principles
• Symfony 6.x+
  framework (or Symfony 5.4+) or experience with other frameworks and a willingness to learn
• Doctrine ORM
  for database management (MySQL/MariaDB) or similar

DevOps & Tools

• Strong AI first
  mindset :
  Experience in various AI technologies usage and integrations is recommended
• Strong experience with
  Git
  and version control workflows
• Docker
  containerization
• CI/CD automation tools (GitLab CI or others)

Testing

• PHPUnit
  for unit and integration testing
• Automated testing implementation

Nice to Have

• Experience designing and implementing
  RESTful APIs
• Experience working with
  React
  (or other frontend stack such as Angular or )
• Test-driven development (TDD) practices
• Experience with
  Azure
  or other cloud platforms

Soft Skills & Personal Qualities

• We're looking for problem solvers who understand that not all solutions come from code
• Strong communication skills - ability to articulate technical concepts clearly
• Autonomous and self-motivated with good debugging abilities
• Experience working in remote/distributed teams
• Passion for learning new technologies and staying current with industry trends
• Analytical skills and AI proficiency: all team members are expected to demonstrate strong analytical capabilities and make smart use of AI tools, whatever helps them work smarter and drive results in their role.

Competitive Salary and Benefits
- Health insurance (Vision and dental insurance included), Training Budget, Mobile phone subscription and payment towards the cost of your phone, 50 €/month net homeworking allowance, Laptop (XPS or MacBook Pro), 500€ one-time payment to set up home office. Meal allowance 7.63€ and 22 days holidays

You'll join a team of +20 talented Engineers spread across offices in Portugal, Belgium, Sweden and India giving you an
international flavour to your work.

You'll be working on our Declaree product, a super important product for us, we've big growth plans and
you'll play an integral part in developing and improving the product.

With a near flat structure, you'll be free to collaborate directly with our CTO and our CPO, giving you exposure right across the business.

On the
team-building
side, you'll get to visits
Brussels
at least once a year, for our annual kickoff party.

We believe in a working culture that offers you the freedom to accelerate your individual skills and are looking for smart, ambitious and self-driven people who are willing to challenge the status quo with us.

High level on the role:

You'll help scale our development team in Lisbon and work on innovative features such as expense management, payment and travel integration, analytics and much more.