Senior PHP - Laravel / Symfony Developer – Backend

Responsibilities - Collaborates with the project manager, business analysts and architects to understand the needs of clients and to communicate the status of projects - Provides their input on a project’s general or specific architecture - Provides accurate task estimates and completes tasks on time, while maintaining a very good code quality - Implements a robust set of services and APIs to power our web applications - Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges - Builds reusable code and libraries for future use - Optimizes the applications for maximum speed and scalability - Implements security and data protection - Designs own REST APIs and integration with third parties using their APIs - Integrates data storage solutions - Writes quality, standardized code, and establishes the best approach to solving code-writing standards to support colleagues with less experience - Avoids blockages by asking internal business or product owners for clarifications - Motivated, it is continuously perfected in the technologies used by the team, through internal and external trainings - Test your own work and perform bug-fixing - Constantly supports the QA engineers - Acts as a team player and as a good colleague, offers advice, insights, and guidance to other less experienced colleagues Skills and Qualifications - 5+ years of relevant work experience - Programming languages -- PHP Object Oriented, proficient knowledge of the Laravel / Symfony framework -- Proficient understanding of OWASP security principles -- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application -- Understanding user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments -- (Considered a plus) Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests -- (Considered a plus) Node.js / Go / Rust -- (Considered a plus) Frontend frameworks (e.g. Vue.js, React, Angular) -- (Considered a plus) Frontend technologies (e.g. HTML, CSS) - Databases -- MySQL -- PostgreSQL -- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes -- Proficient in writing and optimizing SQL statements -- Data migration, transformation, and scripting -- (Considered a plus) NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB) -- (Considered a plus) Managed Cloud Databases - Strong API design principles and Microservices-based Architecture -- RESTful APIs -- gRPC / sockets -- Message brokers / Event bus (e.g. RabbitMQ) - Tools -- Familiarity with front-end build tools, such as Gulp or Grunt -- Knowledgeable about agile workflows and tools such as JIRA Software - Infrastructure -- Docker, Docker Compose -- (Considered a plus) Kubernetes, Minikube or similar -- Web servers (e.g. nginx) -- (Considered a plus) Digital Ocean / AWS / GCP -- Linux fluency - Source control -- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git - Education -- Ideally, a bachelor’s degree in software technologies or engineering