Senior PHP Technical Lead

About TORQ: Company Overview

TORQ is a North American digital solutions partner specializing in scalable eCommerce, product data infrastructure, and custom development services.

With deep expertise in Pimcore, Shopware, and modern data architecture, we help organizations unify and operationalize their product content, digital assets, ecommerce, and transactional systems. Our fully onshore team architects and delivers solutions on enterprise-grade platforms that power seamless digital experiences, drive operational efficiency, and support long-term growth. Whether you're building a centralized PIM/DAM foundation, launching a high-performance eCommerce site, or integrating legacy systems, TORQ delivers the technical precision and flexibility to make it happen.

Our Passion: At TORQ, we exist to make our clients’ lives better — by simplifying complexity, delivering measurable outcomes, focusing on the ROI of our clients, and building long-term digital foundations that grow with their business.

Our Niche: We’re the go-to implementation partner for commerce and data platforms — especially Pimcore, Shopware, and the custom integrations that connect them to the broader enterprise ecosystem.

Our Core Values

• We Act with Purpose – We prioritize traction and results in every initiative, keeping projects focused on delivering real business value.
• Continuous Improvement – We iterate, learn, and refine — always raising the bar.
• High Ownership – We take responsibility for the outcome, not just the task.
• Solution Focused – We lead with answers and adapt to challenges.
• Professional – We bring clarity, consistency, and respect to every engagement.

We are North America’s top Pimcore implementation partner and a leading implementation partner for Shopware. We would love to help you with any of your digital needs or show you how we can help take your business to the next level with our PIM and Ecommerce Solutions.

Role Summary

As a Senior PHP Technical Lead, you are expected to become an expert on Implementing and extending one of our Data or Ecommerce Platforms in PHP and Symfony. You will lead and deliver projects for clients by managing and mentoring other developers and maintaining client relationships. This will include working with a small and multi-functional team to architect, develop, and deliver solutions to our clients. Working on multiple projects for clients ranging from enterprise to startup scale, talking to clients to understand requirements and deliver progress, developing in the frontend and backend, reviewing Pull Requests, or identifying improvements to the efficiency of all projects.

You will become an expert at configuring, extending, and customizing solutions for our clients. You will help understand our clients’ business needs, and work with our delivery team to configure or extend the platform to meet those needs. You will build, use, and improve shared bundles to provide improvements to multiple clients at once using PHP and Symfony. You will understand platform-first solutions like using the configuration tools, core plugins, and low-code / extension options provided by the platform. You may deliver custom User Interfaces in HTML templates (Twig), React.js, TypeScript, or others depending on project requirements.

Location

We're headquartered in Charlottetown, PEI, and would love candidates who can work part of their time in the office with the team. That said, we'll consider remote arrangements within the Maritime provinces for strong candidates.

Key Responsibilities

• Full-Stack Development: Lead the end-to-end development process, from requirement gathering to application deployment, ensuring that implementations are efficient, scalable, and maintainable.
• Technical Architecture: Collaborate with other leads and architects to design robust solutions that meet client requirements and meet technical standards.
• Code Review: Using code reviews, pairing, or other processes provide constructive feedback and enforce coding quality and consistency across the team.
• Mentoring: Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and support to juniors, and collaborate between teams to share learning.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive improvement in code, architecture, and processes
• Project Management: Collaborate with clients and project managers to understand, estimate, and deliver solutions.
• Security: Maintain secure coding practices to mitigate potential cyber threats.

Day-to-Day Work

• Configure the platform, following best practices and a deep understanding of using the platform out of the box.
• Develop custom features and plugins using PHP and Symfony.
• Troubleshoot, debug, performance test, and optimize the platform-based implementations.
• Develop data models to represent the requirements of our clients’ various industries.
• Collaborate with TORQ team members to form cross functional teams that support project delivery (UI/UX, PM, BA, QA, etc.).
• Champion clean, platform-first solutions.
• Follow development best practices.
• Integrate third-party systems and APIs (e.g., payment gateways, ERPs, CRMs, Syndication Channels, etc.).
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and deployment processes.
• Stay up to date with PHP, Symfony, and Platform updates and best practices.

Technologies

Our stack centers on PHP and Symfony, with MySQL/MariaDB on the backend. You'll work with HTML, CSS, and TypeScript on the frontend, and Git for version control. Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and React.js is a plus.

Requirements/What you bring

• 5+ years of Backend or Full-Stack development experience (preferably PHP).
• Comfortable communicating clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Familiar with Git, version control best practices, and Agile Project Management.
• Experience mentoring developers or leading technical projects.

Bonus

• Experience with Docker, API integration, CI/CD pipelines, React.js
• Experience with Symfony
• Experience with Shopware or Pimcore
• Solid understanding of e-commerce workflows (checkout, cart, shipping, promotions)

What Success Looks Like

• Projects are delivered on time that meet performance benchmarks
• You hold a deep knowledge of the Platform
• Code is clean, maintainable, and well-documented
• You contribute ideas to improve both technical and business outcomes
• Clients are satisfied and trust your technical insight

If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact in a growing company, apply now to join TORQ as our Senior PHP Technical Lead!

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits

• Company events
• Dental care
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Flexible schedule
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision care
• Wellness program
• Work from home

Application question(s)

• Have you ever had a role where you needed to communicate directly with clients and/or stakeholders?
• Are you located in Prince Edward Island?
• Are you located in Atlantic Canada?
• If you are located in the Charlottetown area you will be expected to be in office 50% of the time. Are you able to make that work?

Experience

• Backend or Full-Stack Development: 3 years (required)

Pay: $90,000.00-$125,000.00 per year

Benefits

• Company events
• Dental care
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off
• Vision care
• Wellness program
• Work from home

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Charlottetown, PE C1A 4B3