Software Engineer (PHP)

Responsibilities:

• Writes code and tests, pushing to production independently.
• Reviews code, providing valuable improvements for the team.
• Designs system-level code and delivers significant team-level projects.
• Creates and executes unit test plans.
• Develops detailed technical analysis and design specifications based on functional requirements.
• Investigates and resolves defects.
• Participates in functional and technical specification reviews.
• Participates in creating and executing integration level test plans.
• Monitor services and systems within our infrastructure.
• Works effectively across multiple teams to deliver large projects.
• Mentors more junior developers.
• Continuously improve the architecture methodologies and find ways to improve code design, system performance, high scalability and security vulnerabilities.

Your qualifications & experience

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent 5 years experience.
• 3-5+ years in software development.
• Proven mastery of at least one OO programming language.
• Experience in a scripting language.
• In-depth knowledge of networking, databases, data structures, algorithms, cloud computing, security, code design, distributed systems and testing.
• Understands how to build solutions at scale without increasing technical debt.
• In-depth understanding of coding best practices, system scalability, security and performance tuning.
• Thorough understanding and practice of Test Driven Development.
• Solid experience in Relational Database systems.
• Solid experience in Issue Tracking systems (Jira advantageous).

Bonus points

• Python (+ Django/Flask advantageous)
• A JavaScript framework (node.js / vue.js advantageous)
• At least 1 other OOP language eg. Python
• Elastic Search
• MySQL
• Google BigQuery & PubSub
• Linux
• Docker / Kubernetes
• Event driven architectures (PubSub/Kafka)
• Experience with e-commerce based applications