Vacancy for Technical Lead

• PHP / Laravel developer duties and responsibilities

• 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 backend data services and contribute to increase existing data services API

• In depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP and Laravel 5 PHP Framework

• Hands on experience with SQL schema design, SOLID principles, REST API design

• MySQL profiling and query optimization

PHP Developer Responsibilities:

• Conducting analysis of website and application requirements.
• Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP modules.
• Developing back-end portals with an optimized database.
• Troubleshooting application and code issues.
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Responding to integration requests from front-end developers.
• Finalizing back-end features and testing web applications.
• Updating and altering application features to enhance performance.

PHP Developer Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field.
• Knowledge of PHP web frameworks including Laravel, MySQL, API Development, OAuth, JWT, Git.
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP programming.
• Previous experience creating scalable applications.
• Proficient with code versioning tools including Git.
• Familiarity with MySQL databases.
• Ability to project manage.
• Good problem-solving skills.

What you will be doing

You will join our team as our Senior PHP Developer (Laravel) and your main responsibilities will be to:

• Write clean and maintainable code with good test coverage.
• Implement new features in collaboration with our design team.
• Optimize existing code to perfection with special attention to performance and maintainability.
• Do a code review of your colleagues work.

You and our future-proof stack

• We seek a balance between sticking with what works and fearlessly exploring the new.
• We use the latest stable version of PHP 7|8 because it allows us to write better code using features like strict type declarations, typed class properties and arrow functions.
• We leverage the elegance, simplicity and readability of the latest Laravel version.
• We want to spend our precious time on things that matter the most; that's why we perfect our easy to run the development environment with Homestead and custom scripts.
• We write and run tests with PHPUnit and http://cypress.io/">JavaScript End to End Testing Framework.
• We have a great set of tools to maintain the code quality and run on CI/CD (psalm (error level 4), rector, phpcs, php-cs-fixer, phpcpd etc.)
• We use Rector to maintain our code quality.
• We’re constantly refactoring our front-end code intending to reach front-end heaven:
• Laravel Blade template engine.
• PostCSS to maximize the power of modern CSS.
• Webpack for perfect control over front-end assets.
• Latest JS with support for ES2020 features. To accomplish this we use the latest Babel releases.

We ❤ CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Delivery) so we usually deploy a few releases per day: Zero downtime. Just a few buttons to push. No sweaty palms.

We care deeply about the Developer Experience (DX) of our codebase and tools. DX and DevOps is our middle name: Git, GitHub, HTTP/2, Assets CDN, AWS, Enterprise SSDs on our high-spec servers, and much more.

About you

• You have expert knowledge of PHP.
• You have expert knowledge of Laravel.
• You have experience with test-driven development (TDD).
• You have 6+ years of experience working professionally with OOP.
• Your work is based on a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals from data structures and algorithms to design patterns.
• You are an engineer by mindset and always try to understand how things work under the hood.
• You have substantial experience working with RESTful web services and ORM concepts.
• You love to learn through doing. You’re ready to put in some hard work to expand your skills.
• You speak and write acceptable English – not perfect English, just acceptable
• You are a team player and you don't bring your ego to work. 
• You are self-motivated and self-disciplined and thus work well in a flat hierarchy with lots of freedom.
• You love to have creative freedom, make independent judgments and live up to the responsibility that comes with that freedom.
• You love to create tangible results—every hour and every day.
• You love to make a positive impact on the world and the lives of others.

Ideal candidate should be comfortable with Code Igniter, MySQL.

Additional Requirement - CI with installation process

Experience 3 to 5 yrs               

Notice period- Immediate to 15 days

Skills required:
- knowledge of Linux administration and Bash,
- great overall coding experience, knowledge of algorithms, etc,
- experience with Git,
- experience with Docker.

Typical tasks would consist of writing scripts for:

- server automation,
- container deployment,
- user data migration,
- backup management.