Lead Symfony Developer

• Location: Remote
• Type: Contractor (Full-time)
• Compensation: $3,000 to $5,000 per month + Quarterly Profit Sharing ++
• Reports to: CTO / Co-Founder

🌏 About anyIP

anyIP.io is a fast-growing proxy provider trusted by scrapers, growth teams, and data-driven businesses. We offer affordable, high-quality residential and mobile proxies in 40+ countries, with transparent pricing and no hidden fees. Built by engineers, loved by power users.

🔥 About this Role

We're looking for a Senior Symfony Backend Developer to become the technical owner of our core subscription platform and dashboard API (v2). You'll join a seven-person engineering team, refine a high-throughput codebase, and lay the groundwork for features that power tens of millions of proxy requests per day. If you thrive on autonomy, love clean architecture, and want a chance to grow into a team-lead role, this seat is for you.

As Steve Ballmer said:

"Developers, developers, developers, developers!" – Steve Ballmer (former Microsoft CEO) We're not looking to micromanage you. We expect you to take full ownership of our Symfony backend codebase and ensure it remains future-proof. If this sounds like you, we're excited to get in touch.

🧩 What You'll Own

• Lead backend development with Symfony 6.4, API Platform, and MongoDB
• Architect and optimize high-traffic endpoints for subscription management and traffic analytics
• Enhance our asynchronous pipeline using RabbitMQ and fine-tune performance for low-latency responses
• Integrate and maintain multiple payment gateways; ensure compliant, secure transactions
• Design data flows between MongoDB and ClickHouse for near-real-time analytics
• Implement bullet-proof security (JWT, MFA, rate-limiting) and enforce best practices
• Conduct thorough code reviews and mentor mid-/junior devs
• Collaborate closely with product and frontend teams on dashboard v2 features
• Help shape engineering culture and, as we scale, play a key role in hiring & leading backend talent

✅ What You Bring

• 5+ years of professional PHP/Symfony experience (deep knowledge of Security, Messenger, Serializer, Event system)
• Mastery of API Platform (custom operations, filters, extensions) & REST best practices
• Proven chops with MongoDB + Doctrine ODM (sharding, indexing, large-dataset optimization)
• Hands-on expertise with RabbitMQ (routing, retries, dead-lettering) and async patterns
• Strong performance-tuning skills—profiling, memory optimization, low-latency design
• Solid security mindset: JWT, OWASP top 10, PCI-like payment flows
• Comfortable owning projects end-to-end: scoping, delivery, monitoring, iteration
• Ability to overlap with Asia–Europe time zones and communicate clearly in English

✨ Why Join anyIP?

We're scaling fast—join now and you'll shape the foundation. In return, you get genuine ownership, full autonomy, and a clear path to senior leadership.

Perks & Benefits

• 20 days paid annual leave
• 5 days paid sick leave per year
• Annual week-long team retreat (all expenses paid)
• USD 800 yearly allowance for gear, books, or courses
• Profit-sharing bonus tied to long-term impact

⏱️ Recruitment Process

• Tell us about yourself – short online application
• Intro call – 30-min fit discussion
• Take-home coding challenge – show us how you think
• Founder interviews – 1–3 rounds with leadership & peers
• Offer – we move fast when it's a match

Ready to own a mission-critical backend and build the proxy platform developers love?