Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa · Remote Solely
Senior Full-Stack PHP Developer Contract | Remote (South Africa) | Full-Time Hours About the Role We're looking for a Senior Full-Stack PHP Developer to join one of our clients in a fast-moving applications team during a…
Skills: PHP, Symfony, React, TypeScript, MySQL
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa • Remote Solely
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Develop and improve customer-facing features and APIs for a large PHP/Symfony web application. Build new UI components using React/TypeScript and integrate third-party services via APIs and SDKs.
Requires strong commercial PHP and Symfony experience with a solid grasp of clean API design and SQL optimization. Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and experience with AWS-hosted applications are essential.
Senior Full-Stack PHP Developer
Contract | Remote (South Africa) | Full-Time Hours
We're looking for a Senior Full-Stack PHP Developer to join one of our clients in a fast-moving applications team during an exciting period of platform growth and delivery. You'll work across a customer-facing web platform and its APIs, building new features, integrating third-party services, and surfacing new data and reporting experiences for end users.
This is a full-stack role and you'll be embedded directly into our client's team, joining daily standups, working within established processes and tooling, and picking up work across the backlog, from backend PHP/Symfony development through to React/TypeScript UI work. We're looking for experienced professionals who can get up to speed quickly and start delivering with minimal ramp-up time.
Building and improving customer-facing features across a large, established PHP/Symfony web application backed by MySQL
Developing new UI components and views in React/TypeScript
Exposing new data and reporting through portal pages, reporting views, and API layers
Integrating third-party services via their APIs and SDKs, and maintaining clean abstraction layers
Enhancing and extending the existing PHP API layer to support new platform features
Full-stack delivery across backend and frontend, picking up whatever the backlog needs
PHP with Symfony, clean code architecture, not just framework familiarity
Doctrine ORM
MySQL (production and read replicas)
AWS-hosted, served via Apache
React built in TypeScript
JavaScript and CSS; some legacy Vue
PHPUnit for unit testing
Playwright for UI/E2E testing
Strong commercial PHP experience, ideally with Symfony or a comparable modern PHP framework, with a solid grasp of clean API design and architecture
Solid SQL skills: writing and optimising queries against large datasets, comfortable working with an ORM. MySQL experience is a plus; strong Postgres experience is also acceptable
Proven experience building and consuming REST APIs, including third-party integrations
Comfortable working on AWS-hosted applications
Frontend competence in TypeScript/JavaScript sufficient to contribute across the full stack
Strong engineering discipline, version control, unit testing, code review and clear written communication for a remote embedded team
Secure coding awareness: you should write to a standard that passes automated static analysis and secrets scanning as part of the CI/CD pipeline
React experience — strongly valued; without it, the focus would be on PHP/Symfony, API, and legacy portal work
React Native awareness — some work feeds from a driver-facing mobile app
Exposure to telematics, IoT, or high-volume data platforms
Experience modernising or re-platforming legacy applications
Familiarity with agentic coding tools such as Cursor or Claude Code
Docker — working familiarity expected at senior level
Python — not needed for this engagement but a longer-term plus
This is a fully remote engagement but requires guaranteed overlap with UK business hours for daily standups and team collaboration. You'll be embedded directly in the team, this is not a hand-off or black-box delivery model. We value pragmatic, delivery-focused engineers who are comfortable in large established codebases and focused on shipping.
Technology and innovation partner
We’re a London-based technology and innovation partner, providing end-to-end software support—from strategy to implementation. Some businesses work with us on specific tech projects, while others rely on us for broader strategic initiatives. Our team includes experts from the world’s largest tech companies, like Microsoft and Facebook, as well as Fortune 100 companies, with deep expertise across industries including Retail, Fleet, Construction, EdTech, FinTech, LegalTech, and Entertainment. We’re trusted by brands like Apple, BBC, Tesco, Lightfoot, and more. Interested in how we can support your business? Reach out to us here: https://hitechnology.io/contact/
Offices: 25 Horsell Road, London, England N5 1XL, GB
Technology and innovation partner
We’re a London-based technology and innovation partner, providing end-to-end software support—from strategy to implementation. Some businesses work with us on specific tech projects, while others rely on us for broader strategic initiatives. Our team includes experts from the world’s largest tech companies, like Microsoft and Facebook, as well as Fortune 100 companies, with deep expertise across industries including Retail, Fleet, Construction, EdTech, FinTech, LegalTech, and Entertainment. We’re trusted by brands like Apple, BBC, Tesco, Lightfoot, and more. Interested in how we can support your business? Reach out to us here: https://hitechnology.io/contact/
Offices: 25 Horsell Road, London, England N5 1XL, GB
