PHP Software Engineer

Our client is a fast-growing cybersecurity product company rethinking how teams manage and share sensitive access. Their platform is trusted by 40,000+ organisations across 50+ countries and continues to grow rapidly. This is an engineering-led environment with modern architecture, strong open-source values, and a focus on privacy and security. The team is fully remote and collaborative, building solutions with real global impact.

The Role

Our client is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Backend team and help build the systems behind its password and credential management products across Community, Enterprise and Cloud editions.

This is a backend engineering role in a security-sensitive product environment. The API sits at the centre of business logic, access rights, integrations, data integrity and long-term product reliability. The role is suited to an engineer who enjoys solving complex product problems, building sustainable systems, and balancing security, simplicity and maintainability.

You will contribute across the full development lifecycle: understanding problems, shaping technical approaches, implementing features, improving the codebase over time, and maintaining high quality standards. The role requires ownership, thoughtful decision-making, and motivation to build trustworthy software in an open-source environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve backend services and API workflows across the product suite
• Translate functional and product requirements into clear, reliable technical solutions
• Work on business logic, access control, integrations and security-sensitive application flows
• Maintain and improve code quality, test coverage, performance and backward compatibility
• Contribute to technical design discussions and identify opportunities to simplify or strengthen the system
• Collaborate with product, support, security and engineering teams to refine and deliver solutions
• Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing

Core Requirements

• Experience building backend applications in production with PHP
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals using a modern framework such as CakePHP, Symfony or Laravel
• Ability to break down complex problems and design simple, robust solutions
• Good testing habits and attention to quality
• Comfort working across product and engineering challenges
• Strong collaboration skills and openness to feedback
• Interest in security, privacy, or trustworthy software systems

Nice to Have

• Experience with security-sensitive applications or authentication and access-control problems
• Exposure to cryptography-related systems or secure integrations
• Experience with OpenAPI or public-facing APIs
• Experience maintaining long-lived software products
• Experience with directory integrations or identity systems such as LDAP, Active Directory, OAuth, JWT, SCIM or WebAuthn
• Experience contributing to open-source projects
• Familiarity with JavaScript, Bash, Python, Go or Rust

Tools and Technologies

You may work across technologies such as PHP, CakePHP, SQL, PHPUnit, OpenAPI, Git and Docker, in Linux and macOS-based development environments. Experience with every listed tool is not required.

How You Work

• Take ownership of problems, not just tasks
• Value simplicity and avoid over-engineering
• Communicate clearly and raise risks early
• Thrive in an environment with frequent, constructive feedback