PHP/Symfony Developer

Role: PHP/Symfony Developer (backend oriented fullstack)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal with a hybrid way of working with (1 day per week in our offices)

Start Date: January 2026

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.

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
• 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

• Good English communication skills
• 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

Why Join Mobilexpense?

We're not a giant enterprise. We're a growing B2B SaaS scale-up with 3,000+ customers and big ambitions. Here, you'll be empowered to build, test, and own your growth engine—without red tape or layers of approvals.

• Work with a diverse, international team (27 nationalities, 47% female representation)
• Direct access to leadership, flat structure, high transparency
• Offices in Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, and Romania
• A clear mission: make life easier for finance teams, HR, and employees across Europe