About the job Senior BackEnd Engineer (PHP)
WHO ARE WE
We are a startup focused on solving challenges with investing and managing a portfolio of properties. As part of WeBuild Ventures, Liwan is the second startup created by industry veterans with a combined 35 years of experience in launching startups and raising venture capital.
Our solution gives real estate investors (with 3-50 properties) the ability to oversee their assets in a similar way to how they check their stock’s performance. To accomplish this, the team built a new technology platform and hired a top-tier talent to manage the properties. We take care of income and expenses such as rent collection, maintenance, disputes and market analysis.
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INTERESTING FACTS
In the Middle East, 80% of personal wealth is in real estate compared to 20% in Europe and North America.
Our team has extensive experience with real estate and investment management, having previously worked for top-5 investment banks and the world largest real estate classified company that operates in 35 countries.
The product serves three major stakeholders: Portfolio owners, Property managers and Tenants. The technology is built in a cross-functional, self-sufficient, and highly autonomous team, working in direct cooperation with Product lead, UX Designer, and QA team.
Our head of strategy is from Cuba and stocks amazing cigars sourced from the best farms in the world.
TECHNOLOGY WE USE
Dart, Flutter framework
PHP Laravel, PHPUnit, Postman
MySQL
AWS, Kubernetes, Git
We also use practices such as refactoring, code reviews, weekly knowledge sharing sessions, A/B testing, and continuous delivery, which are an important part of our development process
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Build highly available, reliable and performant microservices in PHP 7.x or newer to be hosted on cloud platforms including GCP and AWS
Investigate and discover architectural considerations, such as web usability, site performance and database design, as part of the system design process; research and assess implementation alternatives for new application feature
Focus on scalability + performance + stability of our PHP components
Take ownership of the technology working directly with the Product lead
Be involved in user feedback and iterate on new features
Help identify areas of improvement in the codebase and make architectural decisions
Frequently pair with teammates to give and receive feedback from a code review to boost knowledge-sharing, learning, and improve the platform
Fix any prioritized bugs/issues tracked within the platform
Learn, develop your soft skills and spend time discussing best practices and technologies
YOUR BENEFITS
Career development opportunities incl mentorship, meetups & hackathons
Flexible work schedule and remote working
Medical insurance and other benefits
20 business days of vacation and 15 paid sick leaves per year
THE PERFECT MATCH
You are dedicated to the craft, writing beautiful, fast PHP code to a high standard, in a timely and scalable manner. You love what you do and are willing to go above and beyond to make an impact. When joining a new team, you can hit the ground running in no time.
You love to be a part of a creative team that is responsible for all aspects of the ongoing software development from the initial specification, through to developing, testing and launching
In addition to this:
Knowledge of MVC frameworks with focus on Laravel / Lumen.
Familiar running a NGINX and Apache web servers
Ability to learn new technologies and adapt to change (DevOps, Microservice, Cloud)
Experience with multithreading and performance optimization
Familiarity with Cloud architecture like AWS, Azure or GCP
Mastery of GIT and/or other source control systems