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Job Description
The Senior PHP Developer is a full-stack role where you will be responsible for designing and building web applications, maintaining existing code bases, developing and optimising SQL databases, and developing well-engineered bespoke PHP solutions. For this position, we seek candidates with strong application design and development skills who can be a technical leader within our organisation and positively impact the Software Department through teaching and mentorship.
Role & Responsibilities
- To develop, build and enhance PHP software products and related developments.
- Write clean, object-oriented code, to a high standard and in a scalable way.
- Write and maintain front-end and back-end code.
- Troubleshooting, debugging, testing and maintaining the core software product and databases.
- Write and detail requirements and tickets as necessary for new features and bugs, documenting them as required.
- Provide accurate estimates and convey task progress to relevant stakeholders.
- Peer review code from other developers.
- Write and maintain automated tests to support the application and related services.
- Assist in the maintenance of hosting and scaling requirements and related tools.
- Design and architect scalable solutions to best meet requirements.
- Contribute in all phases of the agile development life-cycle.
- Follow process and manage deployments for new releases.
- Keep up to date with tools, languages and technologies.
- Follow best practices and suggest new processes as required.
- Mentor more junior members of the team.
Job Requirements
Essential Skills
- PHP (5.6+)
- OOP and strong OOD skills with a thorough understanding of what makes code testable.
- MySQL.
- One or more major PHP framework.
- JavaScript.
- One or more major JS framework (React, Angular, VueJS etc...).
- Demonstrable knowledge of at least one testing framework.
- Knowledge of at least one other language Desirable Skills
- Linux Server Admin
- Nginx
- Agile methodologies
- TDD/DDD
- Microservice architecture
- PHPUnit
- PHPSpec
- Major understanding of HTML 5/CSS