Staff Product Engineer

Overview

As Staff Product Engineer you own meaningful product areas in an enterprise-grade, mission-driven team. You’ll design robust, scalable backend systems with a strong focus on performance and clean architecture, collaborating closely with product, DevOps, and cross-functional partners. You’ll tackle non-functional requirements and drive architectural decisions in a Symfony-centric, backend-heavy environment while shipping high-quality software with real-world impact. This role blends enterprise complexity with startup pace in an in-person, ownership-driven culture.

Pay / Benefits

• 4 days per week
• fully in-person environment
• small, high-performing team
• ownership-focused culture

Responsibilities

• Own key product areas across the full stack and shape system design
• Deliver robust, scalable software while addressing performance, security, and reliability
• Collaborate with Product Leads and DevOps on architectural decisions and system evolution
• Debug, improve existing functionality, and design new features with a holistic view of the product
• Write well-structured, testable code and contribute to documentation
• Maintain and scale systems in a Symfony-heavy environment with PostgreSQL
• Balance fast delivery with avoidance of technical debt
• Participate in a collaborative, in-person environment
• Drive ownership and measurable impact in a small, high-performing team

Key requirements

• Experienced engineer in complex environments and full-stack work
• Proven track record delivering enterprise-grade applications
• Background in PHP (or .NET/Java) with ability to transition to Symfony
• Experience with modern frameworks and architectural patterns such as DDD or CQRS
• Strong understanding of performance, scalability, and non-functional requirements
• Experience with PostgreSQL and full-stack development
• Collaborative mindset and ability to work closely with product and engineering teams
• Experience in startup or scale-up environments and complex enterprise systems

• collaboration
• ownership
• problem solving
• PHP
• Symfony
• Laravel

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