Senior/Lead PHP Full‑stack Engineer (Symfony & Angular)

About the role

Emergn is looking for a Senior/Lead PHP Full‑stack Engineer to design, build and maintain enterprise applications using Symfony on the back‑end and Angular on the front‑end. You will work closely with Business Analysts to shape requirements and deliver end‑to‑end solutions for global clients.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain full‑stack features across a PHP (Symfony) back‑end and an Angular front‑end.
• Own the complete solution, collaborating with Business Analysts to define requirements.
• Architect and integrate services using micro‑services and layered patterns, exposing and consuming secure REST APIs.
• Model and optimise data in MSSQL and improve performance with Redis caching.
• Apply solid engineering practices such as MVC, Dependency Injection and CQRS, backed by unit and integration tests.
• Contribute actively within an Agile/Scrum team, bringing a proactive and business‑focused mindset.

Required profile

• Strong PHP expertise with hands‑on experience in Symfony.
• Solid Angular experience (2+ years) for building modern front‑ends.
• Expertise in relational databases, particularly MSSQL, and Redis caching.
• Deep understanding of design patterns (MVC, Dependency Injection, CQRS) and architecture styles (micro‑services, layered).
• Experience building and securing REST APIs, including OAuth.
• Proven delivery in Agile/Scrum environments with a disciplined testing approach.

Required skills

• PHP
• Symfony
• Angular
• MSSQL
• Redis
• REST APIs
• OAuth
• MVC
• Dependency Injection
• CQRS
• Micro‑services
• Agile/Scrum
• Unit testing
• Integration testing
• TDD/BDD (optional)
• Azure (including Azure Queue)
• Docker
• Elasticsearch
• React
• Next.js
• Octopus CI/CD
• Phalcon