PHP (Spryker/Magento) e-commerce developer

We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer who wants to help us to build both our own startup-like products and extensive e-commerce and custom-made solutions with the main focus on Spryker and Magento e-commerce!

Who we are

We are UFirstGroup, an international company based in Zurich and Valencia with more than 12 years of experience delivering highly performant, scalable and customized solutions for our international clients. With this experience and knowledge of the market, we are also currently building our own product already used by thousands of paying customers. UFirst people currently represent 6 nationalities from all over the world. Hence, the official company language is English in both our offices. We embrace self-organized teams, continuous delivery, trunk-based development and TDD. We also believe in open-mindedness and value every opinion when looking for the best-fitting solution. We are looking for you to join our team!

Tasks

How you fit in with us

Together with your team, you are responsible for creating value for our customers and/or actively shaping our own product. You love to work effectively in collaboration with the team and actively contribute to problem solving and the realization of goals. Your team is working in a self-organized way.

You reflect on your work and the work of your colleagues. You look for ways to improve team performance and implement the measures defined in the team. You attach great importance to transparent communication and are happy to accept suggestions for improvement from your colleagues. You value personal interaction with your team colleagues and actively contribute to this. You value a culture of mistakes just as much as we do.

Requirements

We expect you to have:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in developing web apps
• Skills in PHP, preferably Spryker, Magento and Symfony
• Strong DB knowledge, at least one relational and/or no-SQL database
• Strong experience with effective integration of external services and data providers
• Experience in the analysis, design and implementation of complex projects and use this to identify and avoid possible problems in advance.
• Experience with docker (or other virtualization technologies)
• You always keep performance in mind and you understand basic web-security principles (CORS, proper sanitation, data security, )
• Nice to have: Experience with Elixir or NodeJS

Last but not least:

• You are interested in current web technologies and open to new things
• You convince your colleagues with your current knowledge in the development of web applications
• You have a strong ability to learn new topics
• You enjoy effectively implementing what you have learned
• You convince your team to want to work with you
• You are a human and you like human beings

Core BE tech stack

• PHP, Spryker, Magento, Symfony
• psql, mariaDB, Elastic, Redis, ...
• Docker
• Elixir
• NodeJS

Other technologies in our stack

• React, GraphQL, TypeScript, ReactNative
• Cypress.io
• Strapi_io
• Gitlab CI/CD, k8s, GCP, ArgoCD, AWS

Benefits

What we offer

A modern company culture and a great office in the Russafa neighborhood in Valencia. The opportunity to actively participate in shaping your work environment as well as work remotely. Interesting and challenging projects await you! You will also get

• Dedicated learning time to help you develop your skills
• Flexible working hours (option to work from home)
• Fair and objectively calculated compensation based on our salary formula
• You will travel to Zurich at least once a year
• MacBook
• External display and accessories, also for home-office
• AirPods 3 or alternative headphones
• iPhone or Android test devices needed for project development
• Regular events and on/off-site team buildings to cultivate UFG spirit

Procedure

Would you like to get to know us? We look forward to receiving your documents (including salary expectations)! If there is mutual interest, we will plan a first meeting via web conference. In the next step, we will send you a task that you have to solve within approx. 10 days. The result will then be reviewed and evaluated by your future team. In the second interview we talk about you, your plans and ideas as well as the submitted work. We will introduce you to our team and you will have the opportunity to talk to two of the four owners of the UFirst Group.

• Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
• Experience: Software Engineering: minimum 3 years
• Salary: 25,000.00 - 45 000 per year
• Location: 46005 Valencia, Valencia provincia
• Language: English (required)
• Work Remotely: Temporarily due to COVID-19, hybrid in the future

Headhunters

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