PHP / Laravel Developer

• Develop, test, and maintain web applications using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Collaborate with designers and stakeholders to understand project requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including planning, designing, coding, testing, debugging, and deploying applications.
• Build responsive and user-friendly interfaces, ensuring cross-browser compatibility and optimal performance.
• Implement and integrate APIs, web services, and third-party libraries as required
• Perform code reviews, identify and fix bugs, and optimize application performance.
• Work closely with the team to continuously improve development processes and implement best practices.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, and apply them to enhance our development practices and solutions.
• Contribute to documentation, including technical specifications, user guides, and test cases.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a PHP Full Stack Developer or similar role, with a minimum of 1-8 years of professional experience.
• Strong proficiency in PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and related frameworks (e.g., Laravel, CodeIgniter).
• Experience with front-end frameworks (e.g., Laravel, React, Angular, Vue.js) and modern development tools (e.g., Webpack, Git) is a plus.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles and MVC architecture.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, JSON, and web services integration.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with agile development methodologies is preferred.

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Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work on a remote cross-functional team where you’ll play a critical role in designing, planning, development, deployment and observing your code in production.   
• Develop high performance, highly scalable and accessible web applications. Our web app is used by over 20 million educators, students and parents worldwide.  
• Meet tight deadlines in a rapid application development environment.  
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and Operations teams to create and deliver tested features to production.  
• Collaborate with specialists across web, mobile, and operations to achieve a better user experience for our product.  
• Be able to assess and bring in industry information into your decisions and learn new technologies: AWS is releasing new tools every day, there are new open source libraries to vet and you will be a party to helping us vet and pick the best tool for the job.  
• Be willing to work in any area of the codebase if needed, this can include JavaScript/TypeScript/Node, PHP, Java or other technologies.  
• Help staff, build, and form the culture around a team of 5 engineers, a product manager, designer, QAs and associated supporting roles.

Qualifications include:

• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today.   
• Experience developing in at least 2 server side languages (PHP, node.js, …)  
• Experience developing in at least 1 client side JS framework (ReactJS, Angular, …)  
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid.  
• Experience with datastores, either SQL (MySQL preferred) or NoSQL, and the ability to talk deeply about them.  
• Able to identify the source of complex problems occurring as a result of multiple systems interacting (experience with observability tools such as datadog/newrelic is a plus).   
• Experience working on a team of 5 engineers plus supporting roles (e.g. QA, design, etc), preferably as a Senior Software Engineer.  
• Experience with code review, being able to sign-off on another team member’s code ensuring high quality standards.  
• Be self-sustained even when tackling the highest profile, most difficult work across the organization.  
• Willingness to accept responsibility and be accountable not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole.  
• Experience working with other people’s code, how to dig into it and make tactical changes with minimal side effects.  
• A solid understanding of how to break down user stories and give estimates that include accessibility and security requirements.  
• Be able to see roadblocks far ahead, across many vectors of risk  
• Be a true team player! Ensuring their knowledge and expertise is shared amongst other team members and even cross-team and be willing to seek out opportunities to mentor teammates.  
• A commitment to learning about anything you don’t know on your own and without much supervision.  
• Superior communications, organization and relationship building skills — you’re going to be working on cross-team efforts, so this is essential.  
• Self-motivation as well as ability and desire to learn new technologies, applications, processes, and environments.  
• A belief that delivering code to production is just one step in the process. Observing and owning the code you wrote goes hand in hand with construction.  
• A desire to take on whatever challenge is most important. This could be tackling something you are familiar with, or it could require a deep dive into a whole new world. The key is having the right attitude.   

• C#
• ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET
• Core
• jQuery
• JavaScript
• Angular
• MS SQL Server
• JSON
• Web API

• Skills -
  • Core (Must understand and conversant to code on at least two of these technologies)
    • Java 8+/ Spring Boot/Microservices
    • Spark
    • Scala
    • Angular
    • Javascript
    • ElasticSearch
    • Graph Database (Tinkerpop/Janusgraph)
    • MySQL/Oracle
    • AWS/Azure/GCP
  • Secondary
    • Version Control - Jira/Bitbucket/Git
    • Build Tools - Maven/SBT/Gradle
    • Security
    • Agile/Scrum methodology
    • Should be able to create and review designs/documents
    • Must be able to clearly articulate situations, problems and communicate ideas and solutions

• Must understand System Analysis and Design with understanding of Algorithms (implementation in any language is okay)
• Design optimal and performant solutions for product backlog items spanning technologies
• Work with Product Owner/Project Manager and UX lead for providing LoE estimates for Jira backlog items
• Lead and own delivery or work items (for self and team)
• 80% hands-on work items (self), 20% team responsibility
• Must be willing to learn new technologies, processes, business functions, (we measure this by OKR’s)

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