Software Engineer

Our client in Grapevine Texas is seeking a Full Stack PHP Symfony Software Developer to join their growing team.This role is 100% onsite. This is a full time role and not open to contract or C2C candidates. US Citizenship or Green Card RequiredBackground We are seeking a senior developer to join our in-house engineering team. The platform you'll support is a large-scale international application that provides features such as user search, in-app communication (letters, chat, photo albums, video messages, video meetings), profile management, accounting, billing, reporting, and a high volume of marketing and transactional email distribution.The development team supports this platform along with additional management sites, creating and maintaining features and tools that support both users and marketing efforts.Our current environment consists of legacy PHP code and several custom PHP frameworks in varying stages of migration to Symfony. In this role, you will help maintain the existing codebase, resolve bugs, and implement new functionality. The system is deployed across both datacenter and AWS environments. A major initiative is underway to modernize the full stack, moving from custom PHP and SQL implementations to Symfony and Twig. Strong expertise in Symfony best practices is essential for this role.We follow Agile methodology with daily stand-ups, sprints, and sprint planning. The broader team includes developers, project managers, system administrators, and QA professionals who collectively support the application and infrastructure.The current technology stack powers high-traffic user interactions, including real-time chat, in-app messaging, search, billing, and reporting. Core technologies include PHP, Symfony, Twig, ElasticSearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, ReactiveX, WebSockets, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.Future plans include fully migrating to Symfony and then building an API-driven architecture using Symfony's API Platform with a React front end.Requirements Candidates should have experience in:PHP Symfony developmentWriting Twig templatesFront-end development with HTML, CSS, SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, BootstrapWriting and debugging custom SQLAgile development practicesGit and standard development workflowsTracing through code to identify issuesWriting Symfony consumers for RabbitMQWriting Symfony commandsFollowing best engineering practicesPreferred Skills & Experience Additional exposure or experience with the following is highly desirable:NoSQL database and search technologies (Redis, ElasticSearch)API developmentSymfony's API Platform developmentReact developmentReactJX and WebSocket developmentCI/CD practices and toolingNew project setup using SymfonyEmail creation within SymfonySupporting and upgrading legacy codebases to SymfonyDocumenting processes or features in a wikiTask and sprint tracking with Jira

Created: 2025-10-02