Full-Stack PHP & React Engineer

Scalable Path is looking for a Full-Stack PHP & React Engineer to join the team and work on a client project. This is a remote, full-time (40 hours/week) position.

Client company description

The client is a leading platform for student accommodation and university insights, providing consumer and B2B products to students, accommodation providers, universities, and investors.

Overview:

The client is seeking a senior full-stack engineer with strong expertise in PHP and modern JavaScript/TypeScript, including React. The role involves building and operating production systems end-to-end, covering frontend, backend, and infrastructure. The engineer will contribute to both consumer-facing platforms and B2B insights tools, focusing on performance, data quality, and engineering best practices.

Responsibilities:

- Build and operate production systems end-to-end

- Develop and maintain the client's main website and supporting systems

- Drive review generation, accommodation discovery, and reservations features

- Partner with accommodation providers to display adverts and manage listings

- Enable verified partners to reply to student reviews

- Develop the Insights Tool for B2B clients including interactive maps, dashboards, and analytics

- Handle data ingestion (ETL), modeling, visualization, and reporting with focus on performance and data quality

- Maintain key services such as Content Service and User Service

- Manage engineering infrastructure and tooling including Bitbucket Pipelines, CI/CD, Pulumi, Kubernetes, GCP resource configuration, and CloudFlare WAF and Zero Trust setup.

Qualifications:

- 7–8+ years of professional full-stack development experience

- Strong expertise with Symfony and/or Laravel

- Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, including React

- Solid MySQL experience including query optimisation, schema design, and performance

- Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and microservices

- Proven ownership of complex systems or features end-to-end

- Experience working across both frontend and backend (true full-stack)

- Familiarity with Elasticsearch or similar search technologies

- Strong communication skills in English (written and spoken)

- Strong engineering practices including testing, code reviews, and quality mindset.

Relationships - who you'll be working with:

You will work within the Product Engineering Team responsible for the main website and supporting systems, collaborating with internal teams and partners.

Expected contract duration: More than 12 months.

Preferred regions:

The client's preference is for candidates to be located in Brazil.

Notes:

This will actually be a direct full-time employee hire by the client, who pays a minimum of 28 days of vacation. There will be a team offsite gathering at a beach resort in Brazil on September 8, 2026, so if you join before then, you can attend.

Required skills:

• English (Must have)
• PHP (Must have)
• MySQL (Must have)
• Symfony (Strongly preferred)
• React (Strongly preferred)
• Laravel (Strongly preferred)
• Python (Nice to have)
• Elasticsearch (Nice to have)
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (Nice to have)
• Pulumi (Nice to have)
• Kubernetes (Nice to have)