PHP/Symfony Developer
Confidential
Posted: January 30, 2026
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Quick Summary
We are looking for a PHP/Symfony Developer to join our team in Lisbon, Portugal. The role involves developing backend oriented fullstack applications, with a focus on Symfony. The ideal candidate will have experience with PHP, Symfony, and a strong understanding of backend development principles.
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Job Description
Role: PHP/Symfony Developer (backend oriented fullstack)
Location: Lisbon, Portugal with a hybrid way of working with (1 day per week in our offices)
Start Date: January 2026
Competitive Salary and Benefits - Health insurance (Vision and dental insurance included), Training Budget, Mobile phone subscription and payment towards the cost of your phone, 50 €/month net homeworking allowance, Laptop (XPS or MacBook Pro), 500€ one-time payment to set up home office. Meal allowance 7.63€ and 22 days holidays
You’ll join a team of +20 talented Engineers spread across offices in Portugal, Belgium, Sweden and India giving you an international flavour to your work.
You’ll be working on our Declaree product, a super important product for us, we’ve big growth plans and you’ll play an integral part in developing and improving the product.
With a near flat structure, you’ll be free to collaborate directly with our CTO and our CPO, giving you exposure right across the business.
On the team-building side, you’ll get to visits Brussels at least once a year, for our annual kickoff party.
We believe in a working culture that offers you the freedom to accelerate your individual skills and are looking for smart, ambitious and self-driven people who are willing to challenge the status quo with us.
High level on the role:
You'll help scale our development team in Lisbon and work on innovative features such as expense management, payment and travel integration, analytics and much more.
We're looking for a highly skilled PHP/Symfony Developer to join our dynamic development team. You'll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining a robust web application built using modern PHP and the Symfony framework.
Key Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and maintain an applications built using Symfony 6.x+ (or similar framework) and PHP 8.x+
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs that power our frontend, our mobile applications and several customer facing integrations
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including DevOps, our Platform teams and product managers
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following best practices
• Optimize for performance, always keeping security in mind
• Participate in code reviews
• Work under an Agile/Scrum environment, following sprint plannings, estimations and retros