Senior PHP Developer

We are a passionate and professional team of HR & IT recruiters and consultants assisting European businesses in searching and selecting talent among IT and Communication experts from Central and Eastern Europe. As a dedicated and thorough IT recruiter, we uphold transparency, agility, simplicity and diversity as our core values.

• Solid knowledge of software engineering principles (OOP, Domain Driven Design, Programming and Agile best practices, etc.);
• Advanced knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, preferably MySQL;
• Advanced knowledge of APIs, web protocols and services (REST, HTTP, Microservices, API First approach)
• Experience building large-scale applications and refactoring it;
• Experience with unit/integration/functional/exploratory tests;
• Ability to deliver value in an Agile development environment – experience in working Agile (Scrum, LeSS, Kanban)

Nice to have:

• Not be afraid to code across several programming languages from PHP to Java, Python or JavaScript;
• Async processing (RabbitMQ, SQS);
• Systems knowledge and basic shell scripting (RedHat/CentOS but not only);
• Distributed computing knowledge (not just buzzwords, we use: Docker, Ansible, Terraform, AWS);
• Virtualization solutions and alternatives (what we use: Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, ECS);
• Continuous Integration (we have 3 different environments before pushing to production);
• Blue-green deployment pattern (one button and we're moving code to production without downtime);
• Monitoring the application and infrastructure for the best performance (we use JMeter, AppDynamics, Zabbix, and play with a bunch of others);
• Knowledge about Security concepts;
• Open Source contributor (we use tools built by the community and want to contribute also);

• Own and drive development, testing and delivery of best quality features in a cross functional environment; understand business needs and push great software to production
• Design core, backend and frontend software components that can scale as our product does;
• Responsible for resolving any production issues when they arise;
• Conduct design and code reviews;
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various product components and system resources.

Our client is a leading financial services provider in global growth markets, delivering innovative technology that enables billions of people and millions of merchants to buy and sell online.