
Senior PHP, Symfony Engineer
Ubiminds
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Brazil
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About the role
- Maintain and evolve existing production systems while contributing to architectural decisions that impact scalability, security, and long-term maintainability.
- Own end-to-end technical decisions, from architecture to implementation.
- Strong expertise in Symfony 5/6, including bundles, services, dependency injection, and configuration best practices.
- Ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions through solid background in system design and architecture.
- Extensive experience with integrations (third-party APIs, internal services, data feeds, event-driven workflows).
- Proficient in database design and performance optimization (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
- Debug and resolve complex distributed system issues, focusing on security, authentication, and PII handling.
- Collaborate with US-based engineers, requiring New York timezone alignment for teamwork.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
PHPSymfony 5Symfony 6API integrationsMySQLPostgreSQLsystem designarchitectureDockerCI/CD
Soft Skills
communicationownershipdecision makingcollaboration