Senior/ Lead PHP Developer (Symfony, English)

Agency :

Ekino

Job Description :

Ekino helps organizations transform tech ambition into business reality.

Through Serious Tech for Business, we combine enterprise-grade engineering, AI-powered delivery, and AI governance capabilities to build secure, reliable, and scalable digital platforms. Our mission is to help businesses operate, innovate, and grow with confidence in an increasingly Agentic world.

We design and build innovative solutions with an Agentic approach, ensuring alignment with business objectives while maintaining the highest standards of security, reliability, sovereignty, and traceability. Our solutions are integrated with legacy systems (e-commerce, billing, provisioning, leads, CRM,...) and help business and digital managers to meet their objectives.

As part of the Havas Group, we collaborate with other agencies across the network or directly serve APAC, European and American clients. Powered by HavasCX, our global network brand, we bring together over 1,200 specialists in digital transformation, eCommerce, customer experience design, customer acquisition, and engagement across Havas agencies worldwide.

The Ekino Group consists of 500 consultants and technical experts based in France (Paris & Bordeaux) and Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City).

ekino in Vietnam

Ekino has been operating in Ho Chi Minh City since 2013, with around 160 employees.

We are specialised in Sage X3, Digital Architecture, eCommerce, Web Platforms, Mobile and Responsive Apps; Agile Development; ReactJS; AngularJS; NodeJS; Java; .Net; PHP (Symfony, WordPress, Drupal, Magento 2), User Experience, User Interface, Service Design; Cloud Services, DevOps.

Senior PHP Developer

Job description

• Design, test, and maintain robust PHP applications that meet business and technical requirements.
• Produce clean and maintainable code while adhering to coding standards, security best practices, and software engineering principles.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design scalable architectures and integration solutions.
• Implement automated testing, code quality controls, and CI/CD practices to ensure reliable software delivery.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to application performance, system integrations, databases, and production environments.
• Optimize application performance through caching, database tuning, and system monitoring.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and architecture decisions to continuously improve product quality.
• Research, evaluate, and adopt new technologies and best practices to enhance development processes and technical capabilities.
• Mentor and support team members in solution design and coding issues; and evaluate their performance.

Desired Skills and Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in PHP 8.x development (ideally 8.4/8.5) and OOP, applying modern architecture concepts (dependency injection, service containers, event-driven design, modular components, and middleware pipelines).
• Proficient in Symfony (5.4 up to 7.4) to build scalable and high-performance applications.
• Hands-on experience with testing and code quality tools: PHPUnit, PHPStan, PHP CS Fixer, and Sonar.
• Solid understanding of web technologies and HTTP protocols, including CORS, HTTP headers, authentication, authorization, API communication standards, and web application security best practices.
• Comfortable working on macOS/Linux with shell and CLI tools.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs, microservices, and API-first solutions in distributed environments.
• Strong skills in performance optimization and caching strategies (Redis, HTTP caching); experience with Varnish, Nginx, or PHP-FPM is a plus.
• Understanding of application architecture, design patterns, and best practices (clean code, SOLID; DDD and CQRS are a plus).
• Experience with relational databases (MariaDB/MariastgreSQL), including database management, query optimization, schema design, and data import/export.
• Experience working with Docker, FrankenPHP, MariaDB, Redis, and AWS services.
• Familiar with Jira, Confluence, GitHub and CI/CD workflows.
• Good communication in English, written and spoken.
• Demonstrated leadership, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think strategically while staying hands-on.

Nice-to-have skills:

• Exposure to MuleSoft integration platform.
  

Why ekino?

• High-ownership working environment: You will take full responsibility and control of your missions contributing to the team’s success
• Continuous skill improvement with new technologies, challenging projects, on-the-job coaching, and training programs
• Annual performance review & bonus: recognize your efforts and identify development/ improvement needs
• Clear career path: define your career development with long-term vision
• Be secured in your mind with employee’s care: private healthcare insurance package, medical check-up, support allowance…
• Great-place-to-work activities (company trip, sport clubs…): enhance teamwork spirit and facilitate your work-life harmony.

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Thank you for your time and enthusiasm in our career opportunities.

Please kindly note that shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 3 weeks of application. Alternatively, we will reach out to you when another suitable chance arises in the future.

Contract Type :

Temporary

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