Middle PHP Developer

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Remote

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full-time

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Salary will be discussed later

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The PHP Developer is responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of robust, scalable, and high-performance backend systems. This role requires a strong focus on writing clean, efficient, and well-documented code while optimizing system performance and reliability.

The PHP Developer must have hands-on experience working with PHP core language along with Phalcon framework, MVC programming pattern, API development, and cloud-based architectures to deliver scalable and efficient applications. This role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to develop seamless solutions while actively contributing to technical discussions, troubleshooting, and knowledge sharing.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing applications by setting expectations and features’ priorities throughout development life cycle.
• Determining design methodologies and tool sets; designing and conducting tests.
• Meet programming standards by following production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; identifying work process improvements; implementing new technology.
• Adapt existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in CS, Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• Great design and problem-solving skills, with a strong bias for engineering excellence
• Good knowledge of software engineering practices, SDLC, build process and operations
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Always curious and passionate about learning newer and emerging technologies
• Commitment to deliver results by untangling ambiguity with great problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to work on a team and learn quickly
• Experience in mentoring junior developers
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with other teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to quickly solve problems and adapt to change.
• 4+ years of relevant work experience
• 2+ years of experience with major PHP framework, e.g. Phalcon, Laravel or Symfony.

Requirements

• PHP development experience:
  • Deep knowledge and experience with PHP (7.x and above).
  • Experience with various PHP frameworks (Phalcon, Laravel or Symfony).
  • Experience with the composer package manager and managing dependencies.
• Working with databases:
  • Experience with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL, knowledge of features and query optimization.
  • Experience with MongoDB.
• Docker:
  • Ability to work with Docker, creating and managing containers.
  • Experience with Docker Compose to orchestrate multi-container applications.
• Working with cache and message brokers:
  • Experience using Redis.
  • Experience with RabbitMQ, understanding of AMQP basics
• API and integrations:
  • Experience in development and integration with external APIs.
  • Ability to create and maintain internal APIs.
  • Experience in developing MVC applications.
• Version control:
  • Ability to work with version control systems (Git).
• Experience in writing and conducting tests (unit, integration tests).

Nice to have

• Experience in automation of HR or Finance domain.
• Experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines.
• Managing and processing message queues via RabbitMQ.
• Experience using monitoring and tracing tools such as Jaeger.
• Understanding how SFTP servers work.
• Experience with object storage such as Minio.

Performance Goals:

• Code review participation. For engineers with assigned code review roles, complete at least 2 code reviews per sprint.
• Defects in code No more than 40 percent of the tasks are reopened after reaching the acceptance environment per sprint.
• No more than 30 percent of the tasks are reopened after reaching the production environment per sprint.
• Estimation and delivery Tasks delivered in one sprint do not exceed the estimation more than 1.6times.
• Test coverage Engineer contributed to test coverage in at least every two sprints.