Senior PHP Backend Engineer

Senior PHP Developer - Evermed

Location: Belgrade (up to 3 days per week in the office)

Full-time | SaaS | B2B | Medical Education | AI-powered

Who We Are

Evermed is a fast-growing B2B SaaS company serving medical associations worldwide with a Netflix-style video education platform and a full engagement engine behind it.

Our mission is to help doctors stay up-to-date and elevate patient care through world-class, personalized educational content.

We've reached product-market fit and are scaling with long-term medical association clients. We maintain agile startup energy - lean, AI-forward, and fun to work with - but without the drama, firefighting, and roller coasters. We've built a strong architectural foundation designed for scalability and feature velocity.

The Opportunity

We're looking for a Senior PHP Developer to further develop while maintaining the organization of our well-structured Symfony monorepo serving enterprise clients. You'll work with proven patterns, established architecture, defined coding standards, building features that directly impact doctors' education and patient outcomes.

This is not a maintenance role. This is a builder's role — an opportunity to craft elegant solutions within a thoughtful codebase, leverage AI tools daily, and contribute to a platform that helps medical professionals worldwide.

We're Looking For You if You..

• Have 8+ years PHP experience and 5+ years hands-on Symfony including advanced Doctrine ORM, custom repositories, and multi-tenant SaaS architectures
• Value elegant, clean code built for long-term maintenance over quick fixes and can keep cyclomatic complexity below 7
• Are a systems thinker who values consistency and long-term decisions over quick patches
• Fully capable of taking substantial features from concept to shipping as the sole programmer (alongside a designer)
• Use AI tools daily - Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot - and sees them as creativity amplifiers

Beyond Code, You..

• Believe that being a great team member matters just as much as writing great clean code
• Are a clear, specific and precise communicator who avoids confusion as much as possible
• Are easy to work with, collaborative and low ego - takes ownership without drama
• Follow up consistently and doesn't need reminders
• English language fluency: You are comfortable joining calls with clients where neede
• Have experience in growing companies (20-200+ people) that balance innovation with engineering discipline
• Have experience mentoring and guiding medior developers while maintaining code quality standards

Bonus Experience (Nice to Have)

• Experience in hardening and scaling a SaaS platform post-product-market-fit
• Familiarity with educational platforms, content personalization, or video-based learning delivery
• Exposure to multi-tenant SaaS environments, feature flag systems, or customer-specific configuration models

Our Current Tech Stack

Our platform runs on a hybrid multi-tenant architecture with per-tenant databases and shared infrastructure. We operate in a modern development environment where AI tools are part of daily workflow.

• Backend: PHP 8+, Symfony 5.4+, Doctrine ORM
• Architecture: Multi-tenant SaaS with per-tenant schemas and containers, with shared codebase
• Infrastructure: AWS Fargate, Docker, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL (for analytics)
• Development: PHPStorm, Bitbucket
• Monitoring: Datadog (observability), StatusCake
• AI Tools: Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot - expected daily usage
• Frontend: Angular 17 (you'll focus backend, but good to understand the full picture)

Culture, Mission, Fit

We’re a small team with a big global impact. There's no politics, no silos, and no place to hide — only clear decisions, a team of smart capable people, high excellence standards, continuous learning, open feedback, and a shared commitment to building something that lasts. 

Your code directly helps doctors stay current with medical advances - when a feature works smoothly, it contributes to better patient care.

Lastly, we're not looking for someone who just wants to ship fast. We're looking for someone who wants to ship right - elegant solutions that scale gracefully and can be maintained by the next developer who touches them. Someone who brings precision without ego, structure without rigidity, and sees AI tools as creativity amplifiers that let you focus on solving real problems.