Senior Backend Developer PHP/Symfony

Senior Backend Developer PHP/Symfony

Webedia
Webedia
Remoteremote€45,000 - €60,000Senior · 6+ yearsPermanentRemote: Hybrid

Salary meets the Highly Qualified Professional (PAC) threshold; employer support is not confirmed

This job was originally posted in Spanish and automatically translated to English. You'll most likely need Spanish to apply.

About the role

A Senior Backend Developer with deep expertise in PHP/Symfony, who works autonomously, makes technical decisions with sound judgment and uses AI as a regular part of their work, as a production tool.

In a small team, every person counts. We are looking for someone curious, who enjoys exploring new ways of solving problems and who does not need to be told how to do it.

What you'll do

  • Develop, maintain and refactor the PHP/Symfony codebase of Webedia Spain properties.

  • Take ownership of complete application modules: backend, APIs, integrations.

  • Participate in consolidating the technical knowledge of the codebase.

  • Write unit and integration tests in collaboration with AI.

  • Participate in human code reviews (after automatic AI review in CI/CD).

  • Contribute to the technical documentation of the codebase.

  • Work in close collaboration with the development team.

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of GCP and/or AWS.

  • Experience with GitHub, Jenkins, Terraform.

  • Familiarity with multitenant architectures.

  • Experience with Elasticsearch or search systems.

  • Knowledge of Grafana/observability.

What you'll get

  • Real ownership over critical modules of properties with 200M+ visits/month.

  • A living project: we are defining a new way of developing and delivering software, AI-augmented, which will keep improving and adapting. We build it together.

  • Small senior team, no juniors to manage, no filler meetings.

  • AI-first workflow from day one: Claude Code Max, Antigravity, JIRA, Notion, GitHub, Jenkins.

  • Permanent contract.

  • Salary range: €45,000–60,000 gross per year.

  • Full-time position, 37.5 hours per week.

  • 22 vacation days per year + 3 additional days granted by the company.

  • Flexible compensation: Restaurant tickets, transport and childcare.

  • 50% coverage of health insurance.

  • Offices in Madrid (Gregorio Marañón metro). Hybrid model: 2 days of remote work per week.

  • We work on Slack, with short daily stand-ups and a culture of keeping meetings to the bare minimum. Developers' time is for developing.

If what we have just told you excites you, then Webedia is the ideal place for you to grow professionally. So we look forward to meeting you soon.


If you want to know more about Webedia:

Webedia Spain • Engaging Audiences with Passion (webedia-group.com)

Thanks to the people who make up our departments and facilities, we generate a quality working environment and we are involved in social issues.

At Webedia, we are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities, regardless of origin (we currently have 8 nationalities), gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, political opinions, trade union activities, religious beliefs and/or physical abilities.

EUR 45,000–60,000 per year

How you'll work

full-time

permanent

remote

About the company & team

At Webedia we create, produce and distribute content, formats, media and experiences designed for new generations. We manage some of the leading Spanish-language media outlets such as Xataka, SensaCine, 3DJuegos, Directo al Paladar, Motorpasión and Trendencias, reaching more than 200 million visits every month.

In May 2026, Webedia-Elephant Group expanded its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate its AI transformation, with the deployment of Gemini Enterprise and the launch of an AI Creator Studio.

We are building a technical team in Madrid to lead the development of our digital properties and to experience a new way of doing engineering, AI-augmented from day one. We are looking for developers who want real ownership and to build something that will evolve with them.

€45,000 - €60,000

What are the requirements?

  • At least 6 years of experience in backend development with PHP/Symfony.

  • Experience with high-traffic web applications: query optimization, load management, performance under pressure.

  • Experience designing and maintaining internal REST APIs consumed by frontends.

  • Experience with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and managing performance queries at scale.

  • AI-native: active use of tools such as Claude Code in the daily workflow, as a production tool. If you know what a subagent, a pre-commit hook or a CLAUDE.md is, you will probably fit in.

  • Autonomy and technical judgment. In a small team, there is no room for profiles that expect detailed instructions.

  • Genuine curiosity: people who experiment, who look for better ways of doing things, who ask themselves whether there is a more efficient way before following the beaten path.

  • Based in Madrid, office presence required.

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