Senior PHP Engineer

Are you ready to drive the technical future of our platform and mentor the next generation of developers?

As a Senior Engineer, you will take on a pivotal role in designing, building, and scaling our core platform. You will be responsible for the technical foundation of our most impactful features, including job distribution systems, direct apply integrations, and programmatic advertising tools. You look ahead, anticipate technical challenges, and ensure our architecture is ready for future growth.

This role is for an initial period of 7 months. The position will be reviewed in the sixth month for possible contract renewal. In this role, you will take full ownership of major projects from architectural design to deployment. Next to your technical contributions, you play a key role in the team by guiding and coaching junior and medior developers, helping them level up their skills. You will collaborate closely with product stakeholders and manage technical alignment with external partners.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Taking full architectural and technical ownership of platform features and product improvements.
• Driving the development of job distribution, direct apply, and programmatic advertising systems.
• Mentoring, coaching, and doing code reviews for junior and medior engineers within the team.
• Making independent, strategic technical decisions that impact the scalability and reliability of our platform.
• Championing clean code, modern development practices, and domain-driven design.

• Experience & Tech Stack: You have extensive professional experience with PHP and MySQL in complex environments. Deep knowledge of the Symfony framework is a hard requirement for this position.
• Front end Knowledge: Experience with Svelte is highly preferred. We prefer a full-stack engineer who can confidently navigate both ends, but a rock-solid, expert-level back-end focus is an absolute must.
• Platform & Core Skills: Proven experience with building and scaling complex platforms, specifically dealing with high-volume data, job distribution, or programmatic advertising. You are highly skilled in advanced API design (REST, SOAP, GraphQL) and complex authentication mechanisms.
• Leadership & Coaching: Strong soft skills with a natural ability to mentor and guide less experienced developers. You know how to give constructive feedback and enjoy helping others grow.
• Forward Thinking Mindset: You possess a strategic and analytical mindset. You do not just build for today, you think ahead about scalability, maintenance, and future product goals.
• Team Player: Despite your seniority and independence, you are a team player first. You value collaboration, open communication, and achieving success together with the team.
• Language: Fluent and comfortable communicating in both Dutch and English, especially when aligning on high-level integration specs with external partners.

We Deliver the Best Candidates. Smarter and Faster.

VONQ transforms recruitment advertising for enterprises and staffing agencies by leveraging AI-driven technology, deep ATS integrations, and expertise to deliver high-quality candidates to the shortlist while elevating employer brands.

Today, more than 1,000 leading companies and staffing agencies - including over 25 Global Fortune 500 - use VONQ daily to strengthen their employer brand, post job ads quickly and easily, and reach the right talent - as a simple solution or directly from their applicant management system.

Our solution is now available via over 100 Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and Human Capital Management (HCM) platforms, accessible to over 80% of the US and EU talent acquisition teams.

We have a +5000 global media channels network and back our solutions with reliable automation, data-driven recommendations, recruitment marketing expertise, programmatic advertising, and meaningful reporting.

Our dedication to delivering cutting-edge recruitment marketing solutions is proven as Fosway, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, recognized VONQ as a Strategic Leader in the 2024 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition for the third year.