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Senior Full-Stack Developer, PHP
Location
South Africa
Posted
8 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Full-Stack Developer, PHP
Handyman Interactive
• 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
Job Requirements
- 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 optimizing 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.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
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