Senior PHP Developer

Alongside partners with organizations to drive digital transformation and build high-performing tech teams.

We are looking for a PHP Developer to join our client’s team, an organization operating in the higher education sector, based in Lisbon.

This professional will play a key role in maintaining, optimizing, and modernizing a complex, business-critical platform that supports multiple operational areas and integrates with several internal and external systems.

The project involves working with native PHP and MySQL, contributing to the modernization of legacy applications, improving system performance, and supporting the migration to more recent technology versions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, develop, and optimize business-critical applications using native PHP and MySQL.
• Contribute to the modernization of legacy systems, including migration from PHP 5 to PHP 8 and MySQL 5 to MySQL 8.
• Analyze existing codebases, understand complex business logic, and identify opportunities for architectural improvements.
• Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot integrations with multiple internal and external systems, including ERP platforms.
• Ensure application stability, security, scalability, and performance.
• Optimize database queries, connections, and processes to support hig