PHP Developer

Senior Software Engineer

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for reviewing and evaluating all team output and ensuring that all work adheres to standards and best practices while maintaining a high degree of quality. This position works closely with the Lead Software Engineer to assist in defining and understanding standards and best practices as well as designing and planning applications to meet project objectives. Duties include analysis, design, develop and test software solutions for company products. It is also responsible to provide maintenance and support to existing code following company's standards and best code practices.

Expectations

• Abstract requirements to analyze and design innovative new software solutions for enhancement of the company's products
• Provide technology leadership and mentoring to the team
• Reviews team's output to ensure that all work adheres to standards and best practices while maintaining a high degree of quality
• Develop code using the company's best practices and current software patterns
• Read, understand, debug code to find and solve current software problems and resolve defects
• Understand the team's deployment pipelines and processes
• Understand the high-level architecture employed by the team and cross-product interactions
• Test and own software solutions appropriately throughout their lifecycle
• Actively participate as a full member of an Agile development team
• Deliver unit-tested solutions
• Evident interest in keeping up to date with technology landscape and best practices
• May be asked to perform other duties as assigned

Skills

• Proficient with PHP
• Proficient with Apache Server and its configurations
• Hands on experience working with Yii PHP framework
• Proficient with MySQL
• Proficient with JavaScript
• (Nice to have) Decent experience or solid understanding of AWS services, specifically EC2, Auto scaling groups, Code commit, RDS
• (Nice to have) Decent experience or solid understanding of AzureDevOps CI/CD pipelines (Nice to have)
• Understanding of SOLID design principles
• Familiarity with design patterns
• Solid experience of writing unit tests and testable code
• Highly effective communication skills
• Proficient with source code control tools and techniques
• 6 years' experience and a Degree in Computer Science or related field; or 8yrs of relevant experience
• Professional experience developing highly scalable API's and integrations
• Solid understanding of Web application architecture and operations
• Experience with Agile development processes

Nice-to-have skills:

• Experience with Bootstrap and/or Foundation CSS framework
• Experience with Test Driven Development
• Experience with Nginx