Overview
Senior Full-Stack PHP Developer Jobs in Cape Town, South Africa at HI Technology & Innovation
Since we were established in 2012, headquartered in the United Kingdom, we have rapidly expanded to lead the way in technology partnerships, collaborating with numerous businesses worldwide.
Senior Full-Stack PHP Developer
Contract | Remote (South Africa) | Full-Time Hours
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Full-Stack PHP Developer to join one of our clients in a fast-moving applications team during an exciting period of platform growth and delivery. You’ll work across a customer-facing web platform and its APIs, building new features, integrating third-party services, and surfacing new data and reporting experiences for end users.
This is a full-stack role and you’ll be embedded directly into our client’s team, joining daily standups, working within established processes and tooling, and picking up work across the backlog, from backend PHP/Symfony development through to React/Type Script UI work. We’re looking for experienced professionals who can get up to speed quickly and start delivering with minimal ramp-up time.
What You’ll Be Working On
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Building and improving customer-facing features across a large, established PHP/Symfony web application backed by MySQL
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Developing new UI components and views in React/Type Script
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Exposing new data and reporting through portal pages, reporting views, and API layers
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Integrating third-party services via their APIs and SDKs, and maintaining clean abstraction layers
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Enhancing and extending the existing PHP API layer to support new platform features
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Full-stack delivery across backend and frontend, picking up whatever the backlog needs
The Tech Stack
Backend
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PHP with Symfony, clean code architecture, not just framework familiarity
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Doctrine ORM
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MySQL (production and read replicas)
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AWS-hosted, served via Apache
Frontend
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React built in Type Script
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JavaScript and CSS; some legacy Vue
Testing
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PHPUnit for unit testing
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Playwright for UI/E2E testing
What We’re Looking For
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Strong commercial PHP experience, ideally with Symfony or a comparable modern PHP framework, with a solid grasp of clean API design and architecture
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Solid SQL skills: writing and optimising queries against large datasets, comfortable working with an ORM. MySQL experience is a plus; strong Postgres experience is also acceptable
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Proven experience building and consuming REST APIs, including third-party integrations
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Comfortable working on AWS-hosted applications
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Frontend competence in Type Script/JavaScript sufficient to contribute across the full stack
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Strong engineering discipline, version control, unit testing, code review and clear written communication for a remote embedded team
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Secure coding awareness: you should write to a standard that passes automated static analysis and secrets scanning as part of the CI/CD pipeline
Nice to Have
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React experience — strongly valued; without it, the focus would be on PHP/Symfony, API, and legacy portal work
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React Native awareness — some work feeds from a driver-facing mobile app
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Exposure to telematics, IoT, or high-volume data platforms
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Experience modernising or re-platforming legacy applications
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Familiarity with agentic coding tools such as Cursor or Claude Code
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Docker — working familiarity expected at senior level
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Python — not needed for this engagement but a longer-term plus
Ways of Working
This is a fully remote engagement but requires guaranteed overlap with UK business hours for daily standups and team collaboration. You’ll be embedded directly in the team, this is not a hand-off or black-box delivery model. We value pragmatic, delivery-focused engineers who are comfortable in large established codebases and focused on shipping.
Title: Senior Full-Stack PHP Developer
Company: HI Technology & Innovation
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
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