Senior PHP Developer

Full time - possible to work 4 days week in the future
Work Schedule: Flexible
Work Arrangement: Flexible - Work from home or Office

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About You

You probably describe yourself as a diligent, thorough, and conscientious person who likes everyone to follow the rules. You are disciplined and thrive when enabled to operate in your specialised area. You place great attention to detail to ensure what you produce is high quality, and most importantly, correct.

You respect deadlines and work hard to ensure you deliver work on time. While you work at a somewhat faster than average pace, it is never at the expense of quality. You seek to understand what is required by researching deeply and undertaking specialist training to ensure you are highly competent.

You enjoy identifying and solving problems and place importance on collecting hard evidence before making recommendations or suggesting changes. You are a person who carefully plans the implementation of any solutions to minimise potential problems and maximise the chances of success.

When working with others, you provide tight follow up on tasks to ensure deadlines will be met and the quality of work is not compromised. Your preferred focus is on technical matters rather than social interactions or office politics.


Your Typical Duties Include

To develop solutions that meet the business requirements
Adhere to the business best practices and coding standards when developing code
To participate in the analysis and composition of requirements
To develop solutions written using PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
To maintain and refactor existing solutions
To perform QA and prepare the technical documentation
To identify software inefficiencies, and errors and recommend improvements
To perform code reviews

We’re seeking true hard-core developer and this work is not suitable if

You only use a framework and have never looked under the hood at how it works
You can’t build a contact form in PHP with validation and free of SQL injection issues without using a framework
You can’t create a MySQL table from the command line
You struggle to debug without XDebug
You can’t write a code without AI

Your Must Have Experience

Full stack web development knowledge – PHP, HTML, CSS, JS
Relational databases knowledge (MySQL)
Version control tools (Git)
Experience with Go
Full understanding of OO and MVC design principles
HTTP protocol and general web architecture knowledge
Experience with major JS frameworks
Experience with professional software engineering practices for the full software development cycle

Key Responsibilities

You will be focused on delivering technical excellence to our clients by:

Implementing solutions based on specifications
Maintaining, tuning and improving existing software
Supporting the technical design process by participating in the analysis of technical application requirements
Creating technical / support documentation
Responding to queries from lead engineers and project managers
Mentoring junior and mid-level engineers
Taking personal responsibility to stay up to date with leading edge development practices
Performing Code reviews
Making informed decisions and taking ownership of services and applications

Skills and Qualifications

Minimum of 8 years experience of full stack web development
Proficiency with the UNIX command line and tools.
Full stack web development knowledge – PHP, HTML, CSS, JS
Docker, jQuery, Bootstrap and GIT experience
Automated testing tools and Continuous Integration (CI) tools