What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Symfony Software Engineer position at Vacatia?
Join Vacatia and Build the Future of Hospitality Technology
At Vacatia, we’re transforming how people vacation and how technology powers that experience behind the scenes. As a fast-growing leader in resort management and vacation ownership, we combine hospitality, data, and engineering to deliver exceptional guest service and operational excellence. Now, we’re seeking a Senior Symfony Software Engineer to help us scale our platforms, build resilient systems, and bring innovative digital tools to life across our business.
Location: Portland, Oregon
Why You’ll Love Working at Vacatia
If you’re passionate about clean code, love solving hard problems, and want to build tools that support real-world operations in a growing, guest-focused industry, we want to hear from you.
Apply today and help Vacatia reshape the future of hospitality, one line of code at a time.
At Vacatia, we’re transforming how people vacation and how technology powers that experience behind the scenes. As a fast-growing leader in resort management and vacation ownership, we combine hospitality, data, and engineering to deliver exceptional guest service and operational excellence. Now, we’re seeking a Senior Symfony Software Engineer to help us scale our platforms, build resilient systems, and bring innovative digital tools to life across our business.
Location: Portland, Oregon
Why You’ll Love Working at Vacatia
- Modern Tech Stack: Build applications using the Symfony PHP framework, integrated APIs, and scalable backend infrastructure.
- Impact That Matters: Your work will directly support revenue growth, guest satisfaction, and enterprise innovation across a portfolio of 60 resorts
- Autonomy & Ownership: Drive projects end-to-end; from design and architecture to performance optimization and implementation.
- Forward-Thinking Culture: Collaborate with product, design, operations, and data teams to build smart, efficient, and maintainable software systems.
- Design and develop scalable, secure web applications using Symfony and modern PHP principles
- Architect modular systems using dependency injection and service-oriented design
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs that integrate with internal services and external partners
- Monitor and optimize application performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement efficient solutions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support platform improvements, new features, and strategic initiatives
- Contribute to software development best practices, including testing, documentation, and clean code standards
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across the engineering team
- Support the integration of internal systems, including inventory management, payment processing, and reporting tools
- 5 years of backend development experience, with at least 3 years using the Symfony PHP framework in production
- Deep understanding of object-oriented programming, architectural design, and clean code principles
- Proven experience designing and consuming APIs, with strong knowledge of authentication protocols and integration patterns
- Proficiency in SQL and relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and query optimization
- Experience with Git, CI/CD tools, and containerized development (e.g., Docker)
- Ability to independently access and analyze data; SQL proficiency or an engineering/technical mindset that supports self-sufficiency is strongly preferred
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with comfort working across teams in a fast-paced environment
- Bonus: Experience in hospitality, e-commerce, or platform engineering; familiarity with frontend frameworks (React, Vue)
If you’re passionate about clean code, love solving hard problems, and want to build tools that support real-world operations in a growing, guest-focused industry, we want to hear from you.
Apply today and help Vacatia reshape the future of hospitality, one line of code at a time.
