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# PHP (Symfony) Software Engineer

- **Company:** team
- **Location:** Leiden, Netherlands (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Confluence, JIRA, Linux, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, PHP Development, Ansible, Symfony, WooCommerce, WordPress, Openapi, Claude Code, Backend, Gitlab, Git, Kubernetes, Atlassian Tools, Network Server, Api Management, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** October 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.nationalevacaturebank.nl/vacature/43810b07-8e0c-4b9e-acf1-d161e570af56/php-symfony-software-engineer

## About the Role

You don't need experience with every technology listed above. What matters most is that you're eager to learn and enjoy getting to know our technology stack and products in depth.
Who are you?

 + You have at least 3 years of experience as a PHP Developer .
 + You have extensive working experience with the Symfony framework .
 + You're keen to deepen your knowledge of infrastructure and learn more about systems, infrastructure and related technologies.
 + You enjoy thinking about new products and services we can build on top of our infrastructure layer.
 + You can identify recurring patterns in issues and turn them into automated solutions.
 + You're interested in working in an international European environment and sharing your knowledge of our platforms across the group.
 + You take ownership, work proactively and collaborate effectively with your colleagues.
 + You have a strong analytical mindset and communicate clearly and constructively.
 + You're fluent in English.

## Description

+ As a PHP Developer , you'll work on the platform that powers our cloud and hosting infrastructure, contributing to an extensive product roadmap.
 + Your main focus will be backend PHP development , building new features.
 + You'll contribute to our microservices architecture and help build and maintain our internal APIs, which are central to information exchange across our European platform.
 + You'll have plenty of ownership and a say in technical decisions. Alongside development, you'll be involved in analysis, architecture and more.
 + Most of the work you'll do has a direct link to our underlying infrastructure in a Linux hosting environment. We'll also build automations for services such as Managed WordPress and WooCommerce.
 + You'll join our Platforms PHP development team of around five colleagues, where you'll have the freedom to share your ideas, express your opinions and help shape the direction of our solutions.
Which technologies will you work with?

 + PHP
 + Symfony
 + APIs, including API Platform and OpenAPI specifications
 + MySQL, PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch
 + Kubernetes and Docker
 + Ansible (AWX), Git and GitLab
 + Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.)
 + AI-assisted coding tools (Claude Code, etc.)
 + Linux, operating systems, servers, storage and other infrastructure technologies