PHP Software Engineer

THE CLIENT

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 growing fast. This is an engineering-led business: modern architecture, real technical challenges, and a strong focus on open source, privacy, and security. They’re building a fully remote, collaborative team and looking for engineers who take ownership and enjoy solving meaningful problems. If you want to work on a product with real impact at global scale - this is worth a conversation.

THE ROLE:

Our client is looking for a software engineer to join its 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 how our client handles business logic, access rights, integrations, data integrity and long-term product reliability. The role is well-suited to an engineer who enjoys solving complex product problems, building sustainable systems, and balancing security, simplicity and maintainability.

You would contribute across the full development lifecycle: understanding the problem, shaping the technical approach, implementing features, improving the codebase over time, and helping maintain a high standard of quality. This role will suit someone who likes ownership, thinks clearly about impact and trade-offs, and is motivated by building trustworthy software in an open-source environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build and improve backend services and API workflows across product suite

• Translate functional and product requirements into clear, reliable technical solutions

• Work on business logic, access control, integrations and security-sensitive application flows

• Help 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 over time

• Collaborate with product, support, security and engineering peers to refine and deliver solutions

• Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing across the team
  

CORE REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience building backend applications in production with PHP

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals with 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, engineering and implementation questions - not just executing tickets

• Strong collaboration skills, openness to feedback, and a low-ego working style

• Interest in security, privacy, or building trustworthy software systems
  

NICE TO HAVE:

• Experience working on security-sensitive applications or authentication / access-control problems

• Exposure to cryptography-related systems or secure integrations

• Experience with OpenAPI or well-structured 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 another language such as JavaScript, Bash, Python, Go or Rust
  

Tools and technologies you’ll work with: You may work across technologies such as PHP, CakePHP, SQL, PHPUnit, OpenAPI, Git and Docker, in Linux and macOS-based development environments. We do not expect candidates to bring experience with every tool listed here.

How you work

• You take ownership of problems, not just tasks

• You value simplicity and avoid over-engineering

• You communicate clearly and raise risks early

• You work well in an environment where feedback is frequent and constructive