Full-Time
Business Development Representative
Doctrine
Open-source PHP ORM and DBAL libraries
No salary listed
Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany
Hybrid
Hybrid role with up to three days of remote work per week.
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- You have some initial experience in sales, customer support, or any role involving frequent customer interaction.
- Experience in a B2B Software as a Service company is a plus.
- You are highly motivated to develop your sales skills.
- You have strong written and verbal communication skills and you are an Italian native speaker.
- You are well-organized and self-driven, you can easily multitask and prioritize your work effectively.
- You enjoy debating and persuading people, and picking up the phone doesn’t scare you.
- You’re motivated by incentives and excited by the challenge of uncapped variable compensation.
- Knowledge of a Customer Relationship Management system, especially Salesforce, is a plus.
- Highlight Doctrine’s value proposition to set up meetings and demos with Account Executives.
- Identify potential customers and gather relevant information about them.
- Qualify and understand prospects’ needs in order to accelerate the sales cycle.
- Engage key decision-makers in the selection of the Doctrine solution.
- Ensure a strong level of information and documentation on the market, prospects, and opportunities.
- Coordinate with Doctrine’s Sales team and Marketing to optimize the lead acquisition strategy.
- Train in qualification, prospecting, and sales techniques.
- Represent Doctrine at the many events organized by Marketing.
Doctrine provides PHP libraries for database storage and object mapping, most notably the Object Relational Mapper (ORM) and the Database Abstraction Layer (DBAL). These open-source tools help PHP developers interact with databases by mapping PHP objects to database tables and by offering a unified API for database operations. The project is widely used across PHP frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel, and Laminas, and is maintained by a volunteer community under the MIT license. Unlike proprietary DB tools, Doctrine is funded through donations and sponsorships, and it also engages the developer community through blogs, events, and consulting. The goal is to give PHP developers stable, flexible database management capabilities and a reliable open-source ecosystem.
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Founded
2006
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- ORM 3.4.0 adds native lazy objects and property hooks.
- ORM 4.0 will target PHP 8.4 adopters.
- DBAL optimizations improve large-schema analysis and tooling workflows.
What critics are saying
- PHP 8.4 dependence freezes users on older Doctrine releases.
- Deprecations and removals force costly downstream refactors.
- Sponsorship reliance creates maintainer funding and release-cadence fragility.
What makes Doctrine unique
- Doctrine ORM and DBAL are core PHP libraries for database mapping.
- It is open source under MIT and community-maintained.
- Symfony still positions Doctrine as a default database layer.
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Remote Work Options
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Professional Development Budget
Health Insurance
Gym Membership
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