Senior Full-Stack PHP Developer

Senior Full-Stack PHP Developer Contract | Remote (South Africa) | Full-Time Hours About the Role We're 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.

You'll 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 you'll be embedded directly into our client's 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.

We're looking for experienced professionals who can get up to speed quickly and start delivering with minimal ramp-up time.

What You'll 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 We're 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.