PHP/Symfony Developer

Role

PHP/Symfony Developer (backend oriented fullstack) – Location: Lisbon, Portugal with a hybrid way of working (1 day per week in our offices). Start Date: January 2026. Competitive Salary and Benefits: Health insurance (vision and dental included), Training Budget, Mobile phone subscription, 50 € net homeworking allowance, Laptop (XPS or Mac
Book Pro), 500 € one‑time payment for home office setup, Meal allowance 7. 63 €, 22 days holidays.

About the Team

You’ll join a team of +20 talented Engineers across offices in Portugal, Belgium, Sweden, and India, providing an international flavour to your work. You’ll be working on the Declaree product—a core product with big growth plans—and playing an integral part in its development and improvement. With a near‑flat structure, you’ll collaborate directly with our CTO and CPO, gaining exposure across the business. From time to time you’ll visit Brussels for our annual kickoff party. We value a culture that offers freedom to accelerate your individual skills and seek smart, ambitious, self‑driven people willing to challenge the status quo.

High Level of 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain applications built using Symfony 6. x+ (or similar framework) and PHP 8. x+.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs that power the frontend, mobile applications, and several customer‑facing integrations.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams including Dev
  Ops, 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 planning, estimations, and retros.

Required Technical Skills

• 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 (My
  SQL/Maria
  DB) or similar.
• Strong AI‑first mindset.
• Strong experience with Git and version control workflows.
• Docker containerization.
• CI/CD automation tools (Git
  Lab CI or others).
• 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 stacks such as Angular or Vue. js).
• Test‑driven development (TDD) practices.
• Experience with Azure or other cloud platforms.

Soft Skills & Personal Qualities

• 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.
• Analytical skills and AI proficiency: all team members are expected to demonstrate strong analytical capabilities and make smart use of AI tools, whatever helps them work smarter and drive results in their role.

Why Join Mobilexpense?

We’re not a giant enterprise. We’re a growing B2B Saa
S 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.