Senior PHP Full Stack Developer

Job description

Who you are:

You are a talented, professional and motivated PHP developer who is dedicated to his craft, writes code that is proud of and can hit the ground running. As a very detail oriented specialist with good problem-solving skills you are comfortable around both back-end and front-end programming. You are able to write beautiful, fast PHP to a high standard, in a timely and scalable way that improves the code-base of our products in meaningful ways.

You will be a part of a distributed agile team that is responsible for all aspects of the ongoing software development from the initial specification, through to developing, testing and launching.

Who we are:

ScholarshipOwl.com is a scholarship search and application productivity tool that helps students obtain scholarships to reduce their out-of-pocket costs, and potentially graduate debt-free. It streamlines and enhances the scholarship search, match, and application process, enabling students to work more quickly and efficiently, resulting in an increased odds of earning scholarships.

ScholarshipOwl is a company that values the investment of time in people and mirror your success with recognition and a career path.

What you will do:

Responsibilities:

• Be a part of the Scrum team and a good team member;
• Maintenance and development REST API of the company main project;
• Development and maintenance of Node.JS, Golang micro services;
• Write clean well design code and follow industry best practices;
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.

Company Technologies:

• Languages: PHP 7.4, NodeJS, JavaScript\Typescript, Golang;
• Front-end: VueJS, NuxtJS, Bulma, Tailwind, HTML5, CSS3;
• Back-end: Laravel 8.0, Doctrine, MySQL, MongoDB;
• Infrastructure: GCP, GKE, Docker, Cloud Functions.

Requirements

Required:

• 5+ years of experience in PHP and Web technologies;
• Proven experience in PHP, Laravel framework and Doctrine ORM, PHPUnit;
• Experience in developing REST API;
• Strong knowledge of OOP Design Patterns, Git, code design principles;
• Strong knowledge of MySQL or any relational database;
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies;
• Knowledge of English language (level of B2 and above).

Would be a plus:

• Experience with Golang;
• Experience with JavaScript\Typescript;
• Experience with Vue.JS, CSS3 and Less/Sass;
• CI/CD pipelines understanding;
• Experience with cloud environments and microservices infrastructure.

What we offer:

• Fully remote work environment;
• Unlimited vacation days;
• Company summits once or twice a year in different locations;
• $200/month workspace allowance;
• Flexible schedule;
• Hardware budget;
• Very attractive work culture in an established technology company. We take pride in our work and people;
• The ability to contribute to our company and product, and see your contributions come to tangible fruition;
• Opportunity to work in a small but growing company, and have a direct influence on the future of the company;
• Be part of a product that helps millions of students live a better life.