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PHP/Symfony Developer

  • Hybrid
    • Lisbon, Portugal
  • Engineering

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 

Job requirements

Required Technical Skills 

Core Technologies 

  • 2+ years of software development experience 

  • PHP 8.x+ expertise with strong OOP principles 

  • Symfony 6.x+ framework (or Symfony 5.4+) or experience with other frameworks and a willingness to learn 

  • Doctrine ORM for database management (MySQL/MariaDB) or similar 

DevOps & Tools 

  • Strong AI first mindset 

  • Strong experience with Git and version control workflows 

  • Docker containerization 

  • CI/CD automation tools (GitLab CI or others) 

Testing 

  • PHPUnit for unit and integration testing 

  • Automated testing implementation 

Nice to Have 

  • Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs 

  • Experience working with React (or other frontend stack such as Angular or Vue.js) 

  • Test-driven development (TDD) practices 

  • Experience with Azure or other cloud platforms 

 

Soft Skills & Personal Qualities 

  • We’re looking for problem solvers who understand that not all solutions come from code 

  • Strong communication skills - ability to articulate technical concepts clearly

  • Good English communication skills

  • Autonomous and self-motivated with good debugging abilities 

  • Experience working in remote/distributed teams 

  • Passion for learning new technologies and staying current with industry trends 

Why Join Mobilexpense? 

We’re not a giant enterprise. We’re a growing B2B SaaS scale-up with 3,000+ customers and big ambitions. Here, you’ll be empowered to build, test, and own your growth engine—without red tape or layers of approvals. 

  • Work with a diverse, international team (27 nationalities, 47% female representation) 

  • Direct access to leadership, flat structure, high transparency 

  • Offices in Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, and Romania 

  • A clear mission: make life easier for finance teams, HR, and employees across Europe 

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