PHP Developer

Software Engineer

Be a part of transformational change where integrity matters, success inspires, and great teams collaborate and innovate. As the fifth-largest bank in the United States, we are one of the country's most respected, innovative, ethical and successful financial institutions. We are looking for people who want more than just a job - they want to make a difference! U.S. Bank is seeking a Software Engineer who will contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives in our digital transformation journey. The Senior Full Stack Software Engineer will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S Bank standards in order to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products using PHP/React.js frameworks.
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code.
• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs.
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront.
• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards. Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures.
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices.
• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards.
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank's technology transformation.
• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery. Anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• 6-8+ years of relevant experience
• Utilizes technical expertise and leadership skills to resolve issues, ensure product goals are met, and serve as a mentor to coach and support junior engineers to continue to raise the engineering bar across the organization.
• Works to drive both high level and detailed technical designs, conducts technical reviews and define solution requirements and technical implementation approaches.
• Proficient understanding of algorithms, data structures, architectural design patterns and best practices.
• Solid proficiency in PHP and Laravel
• 6-8 years of experience with PHP
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Able to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team, including engineers, product owner, scrum master, third party vendors and customers.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Required Skills:

• Advanced PHP and MySQL knowledge
• Version control (git)
• Unix commands
• Strong understanding of the MVC pattern, OOP
• Laravel Repository Pattern
• Experience in Unit testing (PHPUnit)
• Experience building, optimizing, and utilizing REST APIs
• Extensive knowledge of coding standards and best practices
• Experience with such code versioning tools as GIT
• Mentor more junior colleagues
• Agile work experience
• Bonus: Redis, Docker, AWS, Swagger
• Full software life-cycle experience working on complex products within Agile environments