Full-Stack Developer

IMPORTANT!!!! PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU CANNOT FREELY COMMUNICATE ON THE CALLS WITH CLIENTS IN ENGLISH. THIS IS VERY VISABLE ROLE WHERE YOU HAVE TO BE ON CALLS WITH CUSTOMER ALL THE TIME. INTEVIEW WILL BE ALSO CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH Working hours: Full overlap with US business hours (Eastern time preferred; must have at least 6 hours of overlap with 9 AM – 4 PM ET) (Yerevan 4PM to 12AM) Employment type: Full-time contractor / employee (specify per candidate) Level: Mid to Senior (4+ years for Mid, 7+ years for Senior) About Project Project is about Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) and small-business lending platform which runs the full deal lifecycle end-to-end — inbound applications, underwriting, offer generation, e-signature, ACH funding and collections, syndication, and merchant/partner portals — for our own book of business and for the ISO/broker network we operate. About the role We're looking for a full-stack developer who's comfortable moving across the whole stack — PHP/Symfony on the backend, Angular on the frontend, MySQL under both — and who can pick up ownership of features end-to-end, from a Jira ticket through design, implementation, review, and deploy. Most of our work is a mix of new feature build-outs (new lending products, new integrations, new UI flows), integrations with third-party providers (bank statement parsing, credit bureaus, ACH processors, e-sign), and steady improvements to existing subsystems. There's very little green-field greenfield — you'll be reading and evolving a mature codebase. What you'll do Build and ship features across the stack — backend APIs, database schema changes, and Angular UI — end-to-end for one feature at a timeOwn the full lifecycle of what you write: design, implementation, self-review, PR review, staging QA, and production deployIntegrate with third-party vendors (bank aggregation, statement parsing, credit bureaus, identity verification, ACH processors) — read their docs, wire them into our platform, handle webhooks, and monitor for driftInvestigate and fix production issues — bad data, edge cases in the funding/collections pipeline, ACH returns, syndication payout mismatchesWrite database migrations (Liquibase) and Doctrine entities; comfortable with both ORM query builder and raw SQL where it's the right toolReview peers' PRs with substance — correctness bugs, simplifications, missed edge casesParticipate in stand-ups, planning, and design conversations (in English, over Slack + video calls) Required skills Backend 4+ years (Mid) or 7+ years (Senior) of professional PHP experience, most of it on Symfony (3.x / 4.x / 5.x)Solid Doctrine ORM — entities, repositories, DQL, query builderStrong SQL — you can read a slow query and know where to add the index; comfortable with joins across 5+ tablesExperience with async job / queue systems and idempotency patternsFrontend 3+ years of professional Angular or React experience (Angular 7+ ideal; strong Angular 2+ candidates considered)TypeScript, RxJS, reactive and template-driven forms, HTTP interceptorsComfortable reading and evolving a large Angular application (not just spinning up new pages)Database MySQL: schema design, indexing, transactions, common performance pitfallsComfortable running ad-hoc queries against a production replica for investigationExperience with a schema-migration tool (Liquibase, Flyway, Doctrine migrations, or similar)General Git, branching, PR-based code review workflowStrong written English — most communication is written (Slack, Jira, PR descriptions)Self-directed — you can take a ticket, ask the right clarifying questions, and get it to done without hand-holdingComfortable working across US business hours Nice to have Domain experience in lending, fintech, payments, or ACH processingExperience with any of our integrations: Plaid, Finicity, Ocrolus, Moneythumb, Experian / TransUnion / Equifax, Middesk, SignNow, Twilio, SendgridDocker / container basicsCI/CD experience (Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or similar)E-signature, KYC/KYB, or compliance workflow experience