Senior PHP Developer

As a Senior PHP Developer you should have at least 5 years experience in both back-end and front-end development and have a solid understanding of OOP principles. This position requires a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetics (UI/UX). You should have a strong understanding of industry trends and ideally have worked with one or more of the existing popular PHP frameworks such as CakePHP, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Symfony, Zend.

As a fast growing venture builder company we offer the experience to work on a variety of different products, technologies and challenges that must be met and managed. This means having an appetite for continuous learning and improving your skills and knowledge. It is important that you have an analytical mindset and can perform well under pressure as will be the case from time to time.

The ideal candidate for this role will have experience working in or with iGaming, API Integrations and Payment Systems.

Reports to: VP of Engineering

Attributes:

• Analytical mindset
• Problem solver
• Self-driven
• Teamplayer
• Good communicator
• Working with cross-functional teams and understand their workflow

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain cutting edge web-based PHP applications
• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
• Refactor, optimize and improve the existing codebase for maintenance and scale
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development

Required Knowledge:

• Proficient in PHP 5 and 7, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery and AJAX
• Coding in PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (CakePHP, Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, Zend, etc.)
• Excellent relational database skills with MySQL
• Experience with building restful JSON web services
• Understanding of responsive design frameworks such as bootstrap
• Agile development principles
• Git

Bonus Knowledge:

• Knowledge of API's, such as
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Google maps
  • Instagram
  • Gmail
  • Outlook365
• Performance Optimization
• Security Hardening
• Caching and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
• Slack
• JIRA

Technologies and Applications

Some of the technologies, applications and services that our teams and you will work with include: Linux, MySQL, NGINX, CloudFlare, AWS, JIRA, Composer, Gitlab, Slack