09/06/2026 updated
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Backend (Fullstack) Developer | PHP & API Specialist
Vilnius, Lithuania
Only remote
Bachelor degree in Automotive Engineering, HAN University of Applied SciencesAbout me
PHP/Symfony backend engineer with 5+ years of commercial experience in high-scale marketplaces, enterprise integrations and public-sector systems. Strong in APIs, event-driven systems. Known for ownership: independently delivered complex integrations, bootstrapped applications from scratch
AWS SQSPHPElasticsearchRedisSymfonyPHPUnitTwigKubernetesApache KafkaDocker
Senior PHP/Symfony Backend Developer with 5+ years of commercial experience and additional part-time freelance experience. I specialize in backend development, APIs, third-party integrations, event-driven systems and DDD/modular architectures, with hands-on CQRS experience. I have bootstrapped 5+ PHP/Symfony applications from scratch and have experience owning complex features independently. At OVOKO, I work on a large automotive marketplace with 60M+ parts and 30M+ vehicles. I independently built a Swedish automotive-parts integration that has imported 1.7M+ parts. Previously at TeleSoftas, I worked on PHP/Symfony APIs and integrations with SAP, Akeneo and AWS SQS. Tech: PHP, Symfony, Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, PHPUnit, REST, GraphQL and SOAP. Available for remote freelance/contractor projects up to 20–25 hours/week.
Experience
Professional experience5 - 10 years
Freelancer since2021
Languages
EnglishFluentDutchGoodRussianGoodLithuanianNative speaker
Project history
Developing web applications and APIs including REST and GraphQL, based in Vilnius, LT.
Developing web applications including both back and front ends, configuring web servers for projects, and developing APIs including REST API and SOAP API, based in Vilnius.
Developing web applications and APIs including REST and GraphQL, based in Vilnius, LT.