Senior PHP Engineer (Remote)

Looking For Impact? This Job’s For You Vitals is a market leader in the Shopify ecosystem. Every month, 110 million shoppers use our tools on more than 30,000 stores worldwide. Our all-in-one app helps merchants to increase sales & grow their stores by optimizing every step of the purchase flow. We have a perfect score of 5/5 out of 8,800 reviews on the Shopify App Store. We’re proud to say we’re a bootstrapped company. That means we don’t have to please anyone except our customers. No vanity slides, no stakeholder management, no fluff. All action. As a Senior PHP Engineer , you will be joining our small but experienced team running the Backend of Vitals. You will be building e-commerce apps with the latest versions of PHP & Symfony, used by more than 150 million people worldwide every month.

Why You Should Join Us

Shopify has a thriving ecosystem and we’re very much part of it, being one of the top 0.1% out of 13,000+ Shopify Apps. Now’s a great time to join Vitals as we just started to scale our teams. Here’s what we’re proud of:

1. We’re fully remote and offer a competitive salary.
2. We’re a bootstrapped startup and we’re highly profitable, without relying on external money.
3. Andrei, our founder, is part of the team and works alongside our engineers.
4. Our tech stack is fresh and we continuously invest into keeping it that way.

About The Role

We value pragmatism and prefer opinionated solutions that help us focus on the product, not the code. The Vitals backend runs on AWS and is built using Symfony 6, PHP 8, and MySQL. We use Doctrine and API Platform to make development smoother, and you can expect a well-organized codebase with up-to-date tools. You will need to be experienced with these technologies to succeed in your role. You’ll be responsible for keeping the code quality high by:

1. Introducing best practices.
2. Doing code reviews.
3. Continuously evolving coding standards.
4. Developing a testing strategy.

You will greatly impact shaping projects with Product Managers and Designers, drawing the outline of future initiatives, and anticipating roadblocks. Last, you’ll take ownership of developer experience and, with the backend team, continuously remove bottlenecks to ship improvements.

Your Profile

You’re experienced in PHP, creating reliable APIs that scale. Experience with Symfony is a big plus. You:

1. Write efficient SQL queries and can identify bottlenecks.
2. Know your way around AWS, including EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, and Aurora.
3. Are proud of taking ownership of the services you create, testing, running, and monitoring them.
4. Write production-level code based on SOLID principles.
5. Think in tradeoffs comes naturally to you. You know there’s no right & wrong.
6. Love doing code reviews and coaching people.
7. Continuously look for ways of improving the developer experience and delivery speed.

Bonus points if you are familiar with API Platform, AWS Lambda, and AWS SQS.

What We Offer

1. 100% remote forever – work from anywhere that works for you. (EMEA time zone)
2. Competitive salary and a budget for your home-office setup.
3. Bootstrapped and profitable: You’re joining a company with stability and freedom to grow.
4. Opportunity to have a direct impact on shaping the future of e-commerce.
5. A collaborative team culture that values transparency, ownership, and diversity.

Ready to Join Us? If you’re a proactive person ready to go the extra mile for better results, rock the boat when needed, and drive a culture of excellence, we’d love to hear from you! Let’s build the future of e-commerce together!#J-18808-Ljbffr