Delft
Permanent, Freelance/Interim
90k, 95k
PHP, Laravel, Microservices, Symfony, AWS, GCP, Azure

Senior PHP Engineer High Traffic Platform Laravel or Symfony Hybrid

Company profile

You’ll join a fast-growing, product-driven organisation in the Randstad with one Dutch office and
an international user base. The platform handles high volumes of traffic daily, requiring scalable
solutions and engineering excellence.

The culture is direct, senior-minded and built on trust, with engineers actively influencing
architectural decisions. The company is in a mature scale-up phase focused on strengthening
its core systems.

Job description

  • Designing, building and optimising high-traffic backend systems
  • Working with Laravel or Symfony
  • Improving scalability, reliability and performance
  • Contributing to evolution toward microservices
  • Participating in architectural decision making
  • Reviewing code and offering technical guidance
  • Taking full ownership of your domain

Requirements

Must haves:
  • 7+ years of backend engineering experience
  • Strong PHP expertise with Laravel or Symfony
  • Proven high-traffic platform experience
  • Strong understanding of scalable system design
  • Senior mindset: ownership, communication and technical maturity
  • Stable employment history

Nice to haves:

  • Experience with Microservices
  • Event-driven or domain-driven design
  • AWS, Azure or GCP
  • CI/CD and DevOps
  • SaaS, marketplace or platform experience
Important conditions:
  • Visa possible
  • No relocation
  • Candidate must live within one hour commuting distance door-to-door

Benefits

  • Total compensation between €90k and €95k including pension and holiday allowance
  • Hybrid working
  • Strong pension scheme
  • 26 vacation days
  • Travel reimbursement
  • Hardware of your choice
  • Internal learning and senior knowledge sharing
  • Growth paths toward Lead, Architect or specialist roles

Interested?
Rashied Sadloe
Mobile: +31 6 83 93 19 68
Email: r.sadloe@haystackpeople.nl

Senior PHP Engineer High Traffic Platform Laravel or Symfony Hybrid
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