Senior PHP Developer
Oxylabs · Vilnius/Kaunas
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Jul 16, 2026
Vilnius/Kaunas
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend PHP developer role focused on building and maintaining web data scraping and proxy infrastructure that handles massive data volumes. Day-to-day work involves writing and deploying PHP/Symfony code, fixing production issues, refactoring legacy systems, and reviewing teammates' code. Suits an experienced PHP developer with strong Symfony knowledge, database skills, and a background in mentoring other engineers.
Senior level · National · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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No work location or country is explicitly stated in the posting. The salary is quoted in EUR, suggesting a European base; the US-based flag is set to false accordingly. The CBSA/metro fields are left blank as no city or region is mentioned.
The job title is not stated in the posting — only a role description is given. Advertised seniority is therefore Unspecified, though the requirements (deep PHP/Symfony expertise, mentoring responsibility, architecture skills) support a Senior-level classification.
The relational database requirement names MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL as interchangeable options; MySQL is used as the primary with the others as alternatives.
Message queue experience is required ('Good knowledge of any message queue management system'); Kafka and Redis appear in the tech stack and are listed as alternatives alongside RabbitMQ as common peers.
Redis and GitLab appear only in the 'Tech Stack' section (stack context), not in the requirements block, so they are marked as preferred.
Go, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Stripe/Clearbridge, and Salesforce all appear under the explicit 'Nice to have' section and are marked as preferred.
Mentoring is listed as a required skill in the JD ('Strong experience in mentoring and supporting other developers') but is a soft/leadership competency rather than a named technology, so it is not emitted as a skill per extraction rules.
This role's work location reads as outside the US — the candidate pool, comp, and contention benchmarks here are US-only (BLS employment, Adzuna/USAJOBS demand, and certified H-1B wages), so treat them as a rough US reference, not a local market.
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