Senior Back End Engineer - PHP

Job Description

We are looking for a strong Principal Software Engineer with +5 years of work experience, whowill set up the app’s internal technical road map and ensure that all the team members are working towards the same goals.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinate the development efforts of multiple back-end members;
• Collaborate closely with Product Owner and design teams to create innovative user interfaces and features, optimized for mobile platforms;
• Continue improving the app quality of user experience on many devices;
• Stay up to date on back-end platform and ecosystem developments;
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based PHP applications on portal plus premium service platforms
• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
• Utilize back-end data services and contribute to increase existing data services API
• Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post launch support
• Refactor, optimize and improve the existing code base for maintenance and scale
• Use test driven development and acceptance tests to ensure feature quality
• Interface with customer and internal teams to gather requirements and develop software solutions
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs;
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization;
• Manage the department and provide guidance to the team members;
• Coach the team members on project handling and new technologies;
• Researching technologies;
• Development patterns and strategy;
• Code review for the completed tasks;
• Maintain documentation process for the tasks;
• Ensure a proper time logging of his team members;
• Evaluate the team;
• Estimation confirmation;
• Team planning;
• Maintain high KPIs for the team;
• Prepare a monthly report for the department and submit it to the Technical Director.

Job Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Has at least 2 years in a similar position.
• Expert-level knowledge of back-end with at least 5 years of experience developing, shipping, and maintaining PHP applications.
• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks {Laravel is a must}.
• Experience with some of the modern relational databases.
• Skilled at optimizing large complicated SQL statements.
• Knowledge of best practices when dealing with relational databases.
• Experience in Angular JS and Vue 2.0 web technologies is a Plus.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git