Symfony / PHP Senior Backend Engineer & Data Acquisi

You… have multiple years of experience in PHP as your main programming language have in-depth knowledge of Symfony (understand inner workings of main Symfony components) have an in-depth knowledge of ORMs you worked with (Doctrine, …) and the way they interact with different databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, …) know REST API (follow patterns, design and optimize APIs) know how to test code in PHP (PHPUnit, Behat, …) know Git (CLI branching, rebasing, merging, conflict resolution, cherry-picking, …) have a completed (or well advanced) education in computer science, programming, or applied informatics (university, technical college or similar) OR are self-educated with high theoretical knowledge (design and architectural patterns, computational complexity, software development workflows, communication protocols, …) understand the concepts behind the libraries you use and would be able to re-engineer them to a usable level, if needed have an eye for elegant code have independent working habits and a good working environment (excellent internet connection…) and a very good command of English as our main working language Important: You must be based in Europe / within CET (max. ± 2h) timezone, and have to be either EU citizen or own a long-term Schengen visa to settle & travel freely.

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In addition, we would be happy if you… have knowledge of standard git branching workflows like Git Flow provide experience with cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, …), Kubernetes and ElasticSearch Knowledge of frontend development (JavaScript, React, …) Experience in Test-driven development and open-data projects are keen on working with Open Government Data or have experience in GovTech projects And awesome, of course, if you already… submitted PRs to open source projects (Symfony…) worked on projects that either scrape, ingest, manage and/or provide large amounts of data