Full stack PHP developer || Dallas, TX (Onsite) || Contract

Role: FullStack PHP Developer

Location: Dallas, TX (Onsite)

Long Term Contract

Looking for a talented Full Stack Engineer -PROBLEM SOLVER to enhance our existing team building and enhancing our enterprise applications suite. Our existing web technology suite relies heavily on PHP, components in Bootstrap and a growing number of custom integrations with other services and applications. We are seeking someone who can learn quickly to develop in the existing environment, implement incremental changes, and collaborate with the team to approach new architectural challenges, with a big-picture visualization of the entire platform.



REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES
• 9-10 years experience writing high quality and maintainable PHP with MVC Framework Experience. Yii and/or Symfony is a major plus
• 5-7 years experience JavaScript (ES6+) with Proven understanding of Angular, React, or other leading JS front end technology... along with significant background in Bootstrap CSS, JQuery.
• 2-3 years experience running, configuring Apache server.
• Understanding of testing practices, experience with test-driven development frameworks for application and infrastructure code, Experience in integrating unit tests and smoke test with code quality analysis tools like JUnit, PHPUnit, Cypress and Selenium.
• 5+ years Strong RDBMS experience - MSSQL preferred
• Strong understanding of OOP fundamentals (Composition vs. Inheritance, SOLID principles, Design Patterns)
• 1-2 years of experience building/delivering using Python
• 1-2 years AI Fundamentals and application. Knowledge of and use of PySpark, SLM and LLM
• Analytical/Abstract mindset, approaches problems for multiple vectors, providing comprehensive and out of the box solutions.
• Significant experience with GIT Version control (Github, GitLab, Bit Bucket, GIT)
• Excellent communication, organizational skills, attention to detail and the ability to meet tight deadlines as group member or individual worker. Ability to interact and work effectively with multiple stakeholders, including faculty, staff, administration, and all external constituencies.
• Capable of managing multiple demands and processes while maintaining flexibility and adaptability.
• Advanced organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Proven ability to work well in a confidential, fast-paced, highly accountable environment.
• Education: Bachelor's degree or four years additional, relevant work experience.



PREFERRED SKILLS
• Experience with logging and reporting solutions such as: Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana (ELK), Grafana, or Splunk
• Experience in cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure) and associate tooling (Azure DevOps, AWS Code deploy)
• Scripting proficiency (Java, Ruby, C/C++, Node.JS, Go, Python, Perl, bash, etc.)
• API design & development
• Microservices
• Building CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Passionate learner and tenacious problem solver