The PHP Foundation
The PHP Foundation
The PHP Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to support, advance, and develop the PHP language.
Current major sponsors include JetBrains, Automattic, Sovereign Tech Agency, Laravel, GoDaddy.com, Private Packagist, Craft CMS, Zend by Perforce, Tideways, Symfony, Mercari Inc., Les-Tilleuls.coop, pixiv Inc., Aternos GmbH, Sentry, Cybozu, Manychat, and Passbolt.
The foundation pays 11 developers to work on the language. See what the foundation achieved in 2024 in the Impact and transparency report. You can also watch Roman Pronskiy's video overview of what the Foundation is working on.
We're opening a regular round of applications for developer positions. We intend to decide on whom we will hire by the end of November. If selected, you would start your work January 1st, 2026.
The application form will be open until October 30, 2025.
As before, we require experience in PHP core development. Ideally, you should have all, but at least some of the following:
Strategic areas we'd like you to work on:
This is not an exhaustive list. We encourage you to provide as detailed a description of what you want to work on as possible.
Our primary selection criterion is pragmatism. We place greater emphasis on solutions that improve the developer experience and benefit businesses that rely on PHP, rather than new syntax features.
Out of scope:
Working for the PHP Foundation offers a lot of freedom, but it also requires discipline. Your work will roughly consist of the following:
As you can see, developing new RFCs is a fairly small part of the job. Most of the work is typical maintenance of an open-source project.
We are a fully distributed team. You can work from any place* and at any time. All communication is asynchronous via Slack, GitHub, and Email. We meet for synchronous calls once a month.
Your work should be in line with the foundation's mission statement, and we expect you to follow the code of conduct.
PHP Foundation Mission Statement
The PHP Foundation is a collective of people and organizations relying on the PHP language. Its mission is to ensure the long-term prosperity of the PHP language. The PHP Foundation focuses on providing financial support and guidance to PHP language developers to support its goals of improving the language for its users, providing high-quality maintenance, and improving the PHP language project to retain current contributors and to integrate new contributors. The PHP Foundation aims to promote the public image of the PHP language in the interest of retaining existing and gaining new users and contributors.
* We do not consider applications from persons residing in sanctioned territories.
Submit your application now, and we will get back to you shortly. If you have any questions or suggestions, reach out to contact@thephp.foundation.